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[markofthebrave]

[Sneeze and you break it filter to CR at around 4 am this morning.]

I'm back. I'm fine. I hope everyone's okay. Good night.

[So then Katara wakes up much, much later and will be just puttering around the house for a while for those who are inclined to catch her in serious conversation. She sends notes to Trafalgar and to Gelda to let them know that although she's back she feels like she needs to take a few days off... she's still very tired, and as of yet not feeling like being around people.

All that changes, however, on Wednesday. She needs to get out of the house, she needs to do something life-affirming and fun... and isn't it fortunate that she's been working on building several insane monstrous intense snow tracks for people to go sledding on? She decides to go check on them and to bring her journal with them.

Finding that their structural integrity hasn't been too damaged without constant maintenance and that the cold weather still holds... she decides that today is the day to show them off.]

Hey, everyone - I've been working on something the past few weeks and if you like sledding then... [She trails off and flips the journal over so that the journal feed will reveal three sledding tracks. She's made good use of all the snow in the past month or so, the clearing is very nearly bare of it - instead, there is the very large one, made completely of tunnels and requiring snow-cut stairs to ascend and once dared will necessitate a few on-the-walls themselves turns, there is the slightly less large one that seems to be composed mostly of sheer drops, and there is the normal-sized one that is essentially one long spiral down to ground level.] then grab your sleds. Don't worry, I've had a few people test them and they've held up just fine! It's south of the barracks, by the river.

[OOC: If anyone wants to come sledding, please do! Threadjacks of all sorts are welcome!

Also, if I could get those who attend the school, work in the clinics, or attend combat medicine lessons to give this a quick glance and offer input, that would be awesome! \o/!]

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[markofthebrave]

Yeah. [Still looking down.] That's exactly what I mean.

[And then she looks up, smiling wryly.] Don't worry. I'm not going to be avoiding him.

[They'd hashed that issue out already and this is her wry acknowledgement of the fact that you very well may have heard it all.]

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[endgames]

I figured not. [Confirming that.]

You don't have to worry about misleading him, either. He's not like a dog you're taunting with scraps. [A pause... And he tilts his head, sticking his pinky in one ear.] Well - he is a dog. But he gets into that shit on his own.

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[markofthebrave]

[Wow, rude (to the finger in the ear). Vulgar (dog. shit.) and rude!]

I'd rather not think of him as a dog at all.

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[endgames]

[Because he's your friend too, he won't tell him you said that.]

I figured he's a little too old to compare him to a puppy... [This is said with a small smirk - he was joking, so chill.]

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[markofthebrave]

[A warning huff, but then she'll move on to the point.]

I thought I was being pretty clear, but... [helpless and uncertain shrug]

...what you're saying, basically, is he's fooling himself.

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[endgames]

[He shakes his head. Masaomi is the type of person to lie to himself, but he can't hide the truth from himself. That's what makes him such a self-destructive person.]

He knows what he's doing. I say he's like a dog [and a hand goes up here - he knows, he knows, he's just explaining himself] because he gets into things he knows he shouldn't.

You keep things from him, and he'll still try and sniff it out. When you get on him for it, he might feel bad, sure. But only because he upset you. You warn him, and he'll see what he can get away with anyways.

So it's not leading him on. [She's too careful for that.] If you have to shut him down, it's not even a bad reflection on yourself. He does these things to himself.

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[markofthebrave]

[She listens and... it makes sense, but... it doesn't really make her feel any better.]

I wish he wouldn't.

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[endgames]

Heh. That's like wishing the sky weren't blue.

[Though he'd be lying if he said he didn't hope Masaomi will grow out of it someday.]

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[markofthebrave]

[Half-shrug.]

A girl can wish?

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[markofthebrave]

Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. I know this has got to be weird for you, and I'll try to leave you out of it.

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[endgames]

[He's grateful for that, really.]

It's not like I mind hearing about it. But maah... [He finishes his drink now, setting the cup down.] There's not a lot I can say. This really isn't my thing.

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[markofthebrave]

[She shrugs.]

There's not really a lot to say. I don't like him, he likes me, it's a mess.

[Sigh.] He brought flowers to meet me when we went sledding today. Flowers!

[Just. Needing to get that off her chest. She'll back off after this, promise.]

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[endgames]

...flowers?

[The ones that have been sitting in his apartment all week?]

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[markofthebrave]

[A nod.]

Pretty blue and white ones. I have no idea where I'm going to put them.

[Sokka will flip.

...also, what is that face.] ...why?

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[endgames]

He's been taking care of them all week.

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[markofthebrave]

[Hearing that, Katara groans and moves slumps forward, letting her head hit the table with a light thud.

Why me?]

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[endgames]

[Sorry, he can't help it - the corners of his mouth tug up.

He reaches across and lays a hand on her head - two quick pats, as if to say there, there, before the hand withdraws.]

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[markofthebrave]

[Yes, that's right, laugh at her pain. You just wait until she finds out that you'll be dating your Perfect Girl in a few weeks.

She glances up at him.]

I don't suppose you want them back.

[She's kidding. Mostly.]

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[endgames]

When I just got rid of them?

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[markofthebrave]

[Yeah, yeah. She wasn't going to give them to you, anyway. Not the first time a boy got her flowers.]

I shouldn't have been surprised. He'd said he'd had them for a while.

[STILL!]

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[endgames]

[Only because Ino forced them on him, but that's another can of worms.]

On the bright side, they probably won't last a lot longer, if it really bothers you.

[And he gets up, to go put his cup in the sink.]

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[markofthebrave]

[Heh. He always does that.]

Yay. He gave me doomed flowers.

[She's teasing. Mostly.]

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[endgames]

[Moving lazily towards the kitchen... Doomed flowers, huh. Haha, he is so going to pay for this.]

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[endgames]

Oh, but Katara... [Turning quick on his heel, he loses his lethargic pace as he walks backwards, adopting the flamboyant gestures and way of speaking one would usually assort with Masaomi when he really gets into it.]

Is it not the thought that counts? [His free hand comes up to rest over his chest, the other sweeping grandly over her counter tops.] The real treasure, after all, is when a man gives from his heart.

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[markofthebrave]