markofthebrave | [ Action, Voice ] .058

[Somewhere in all the excitement of the past month, it... sort of didn't occur to her that she's now been in Luceti for two years. That's had some time to sink in now, along with the new announcement and - home. Actually getting to go home. Even if it's just for a day...

...but then it means that the Malnosso were lying to them, doesn't it. They do have the power to send them home. And all this time, they'd said it was random...]

[Filter to those who had been here when she arrived: Two years back or more.]

Hey. I think that I just... wanted to apologize. I know that when I got here two years ago, I wasn't very respectful about all the things everyone had tried to do in order to get out of here. It must have been so hard to hear that then, and to keep hearing it from every New Feather that we get when we know that we've tried everything we could.

But we have to keep trying. What they're doing, no matter what they say, no matter what they promise us, is wrong. We can't give up hope that we'll find a way out - we have to keep looking. There's a difference between waiting and giving up, and I know it's hard, but so many of you are still doing that, still trying to find a way out while making things as comfortable as you can for all the new people who are stuck here as we are, and I admire that so much.

So, thank you.

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[And then, taking a deep breath, she'll continue:]

And hey, if anyone was using the sled tracks I made, I haven't had a chance to check on them since the ice storm. I'll probably be decommissioning them tomorrow and just turning it all into a giant snow hill, so if you go out there, please be careful, all right?

[Thursday is one of the days Katara goes to spar with Nami, so after making this announcement after school, she and Nami will meet up by the river to do battle with their staffs. Feel free to stop by and watch these two sexy ladies practicing, if you like.

If not, after dinner, Katara heads off someplace she very rarely is. The remembrance garden. This place has always made her uncomfortable... she's not sure it's right, but it's... something. Better than those things that reminded her of gravestones. And the perfect place to pour over her journal, flipping back until she finds an entry of Aang. It's been so long since she's seen him... she's all but forgotten what he sounds like. She feels almost bad about it, but... she misses him so much and yet... it's easier not to miss him.

And eventually, when her time in the remembrance garden is done, Katara will return to her house for an hour or two of bending practice in the back yard.]

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Do you still miss him?

Yeah. More than I can say.

I'm sorry. That's hard.

Thank you. [She shrugs.] It's kind of par for the course for me. People from home don't come here, so I have to make my own life.

[A little wryly:] I hope that's going okay for you.

It's not bad.

Good.

[And Katara draws one of the purple pillows into her lap.]

[There's a little silence for a moment before Alexis speaks again.] What about you? Did you weather the experiment all right?

I was with Luffy. [She plucks at the edge of the pillow.] We straightened it out afterwards. We've been friends for a while, so...

[...so it just left her really empty.]

It could have been a lot worse.

I'm sorry, Katara.

It's... not so bad.

[She just repeats herself and looks down, because really, it isn't, it could have been a lot worse.]

Yeah, but it's still rough. I've done this experiment before and got paired up with a good friend. The worst part wasn't trying to fix things afterward or the inevitable awkward. It was knowing that my emotions had been messed with. Alf and I fixed things pretty quickly, but the effects of the experiment stayed with me for a good long while.

It's never... easy. But it's not like last time, with Chouji, when I wasn't sure what was my feelings and what was leftover from the experiment. It's all just... gone now.

At least there's no question left.

No. Nothing like that.

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I'm sorry, Katara. I really lucked out this time.

You don't need to be sorry about that.

Even so... [A pause.] Did you want a soda or something?

...I wouldn't mind a root beer?

That I got. [Give her a second while she gets up to raid the wonderful personal fridge she found a month or so back. It's the best thing ever, really. It'll be just a minute before she comes back with a can for each of them.] Sorry; I should have thought of asking if you wanted this when you first got here.

Don't worry about it. [She takes the can and pops it opened with expert ease.]

So. [Alexis plops down on the couch with her own root beer.] What's new and interesting? [You know, besides awkward not-relationships.]

You mean besides last week? Not much.

Yeah, besides that.

[She fiddles a little with the twisty top on her can.]

...did you see Masaomi's last post?

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