markofthebrave | [ Action, Written, Video ] .057

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[ Action, Written, Video ] .057

[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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There's other ones to sign up for.

[Other places to see people. But that's not really the point behind what he's saying,]

Yeah, I know.

[She'd been incredibly effective on this one. But... she wasn't sure this was the kind of thing she wanted to be effective in.]

[ANYWAY.]

So how are things with the new roommate?

[What is transition]

[But no, he gets why. He knows she doesn't want to talk about these things - to her it's probably better to change the subject than to politely keep it short, when the conversation can take turns you don't like.

So he'll play into it, turning his head annoyed-like.]

Tch. I ask if you have other questions and you ask something as mundane as that?

I don't need to worry about these guys - they're not here. Unless you want me to ask you more about Sasuke and if you've run into him here, and if he's going to try to kill Itachi again or anything else you don't want to answer...

[She pauses to shrug.]

It's not as if I knew you took one in, after all.

[Not that she's holding it against him - she isn't - but a little warning would have been nice all the same.]

It was a spur of the moment thing. He'd made up his mind about going, so I figured he may as well stay with me.

[And he had planned on giving her a heads up. She just ran into Masaomi first.]

Yeah. And you're surrounded by girls on that floor.

[Just this look.]

[Pfff.

Why are all her friends such jerks? Katara rolls her eyes.]

But it's been going okay?

[She's asking about this for more than one reason, you know.]

[Oh, he knows.]

It's taking some adjusting. But it's... mostly been nice, to have a roommate again.

[Does he know that most of those reasons are really about HIM, and not Masaomi at all?]

Good. [Small smile.] Then I don't need to worry about you as much anymore.

[And come check up on you, because you'll have him there.]

What you're really saying is that you won't be stopping by anymore.

[He does not sound surprised.]

[She blinks, stung a little.]

No. When I was going to say that, I would have said it outright.

[Although the fact that he's drawing that conclusion is interesting.]

It's okay. [And the way he says that, he doesn't sound upset.] We're just skipping some steps.

[But she doesn't appreciate the implication that she wouldn't say what she means. Or that she would keep something like that from him.]

You don't sound surprised.

[You sound like you expected it.]

To be honest... I was anticipating it shortly after the fact.

[Geeze, that's cold. And Katara is from the South Pole, she knows cold. But because of the (some would say 'idiotic') faith she has in her friends, she doesn't automatically construe that as Shikamaru Making a Choice or even gleeful for the excuse.

She just asks a question.]

Why?

[He shrugs.]

You guys have a lot to work through. You usually visit a lot. But if you kept coming over, you'd either have to deal with him more than you're comfortable with right now, or ignore him.

You're not the type of person to treat yourself or others so unfairly. It was an easy conclusion.

[Katara frowns.]

So you're okay with that.

[Or are we talking 'side benefit' here, because right now she's not sure.]

I understand it. There's a difference.

So you're not okay with it.

[Why can't boys ever say what they mean?]

Isn't that what I said?

[Why can't girls ever read between the lines?]

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