markofthebrave | [Action, Voice, and Windblown Journals] .015

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[Action, Voice, and Windblown Journals] .015

[Voice]
Hey, Hugo - if you have a chance, I'd like to talk to you about something.

[And then she shuts the book and moves to her evening practice session behind her house. Today is not about how much water she can move, but it is about control. When the wind blows her journal opened, anyone watching can see thin streams of water moving quick enough to cut intertwining with her arms and legs as she works through a form. The pattern of when she splits a stream, and when she adds more water seems random... until you glance above her head. Any time her concentration is broken by a flash of an image, she adds another and another until all the thought bubble reflects are the forms

If you want to interrupt her, give her a minute - messing up and slicing herself with one of those water streams would be painful. While she normally hates to have her practicing interrupted, tonight it's not quite keeping her mind off of things.]

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What's up?

Hey! I have a question for you.

[For me?] What is it?

You said that you fought with a knife, right? Would you mind giving me a few lessons? Sokka made me one, but he fights with a sword and his boomerang... I don't know anyone else who uses a knife to fight.

Was that it? Sure, I don't mind.

Yeah - that's it. Thanks, Hugo. ((Here follows a brief montage of flickering images showing all the ways not knowing how to use a knife but carrying one anyway could be bad, including sliced fingers, having the weapon taken away and then used against her, and something really improbable like tripping and accidentally disemboweling herself.)) I really appreciate it! When's good for you?

[...............................................................

Sorry, your thoughts kind of distracted him. It was a rather... brutal line of thought.]

...Hugo?

I... don't think those will happen if you use a knife.

Huh? [Oh, it was probably... and she looks up to see the last image of her comically dead on her own knife, which is quickly exaggerated after visually confronting it.]

Gah! ((MAKE IT GO AWAY!!!))

Looks like you got hit by the experiment.

[Embarrassed blushing and facepalm action is go.] Yeah, I guess so.

If it makes you feel better, it's not half as dangerous as you think it is. [Unless your knife was so sharp that it can cut fingers off like that. He's never seen one sharp enough to do that.]

Heh - I'm just... really not used to close fighting. And while I've cut things with my waterwhip before... I'd just feel a lot better if I knew what I was doing.

[He understands that one.] When would you like to learn?

[Shrug.] Whenever is good for you. I go to school now and need to be back home in time to make dinner for everyone, and I practice my bending at night - but other than that, I'm pretty much free!

How about before classes then? We can go to school together after that.

In the mornings? [Blink, blink. She already gets up earlier than everyone to prepare for that - and mornings are just not her best time.] What time?

Around eight? Classes start at nine, so we have enough time for it.

Oh, that's not so bad. [Pause.] I'm not at my best in the mornings. But I think I can do that! Would you like to meet in the barracks?

The barracks might be too far from the school. Maybe we can try somewhere closer there? [It won't do them any good if the professors finds them both late to class all the time, after all.]

Well, that's true. They are right by my house, though... do you have someplace in mind?

Someplace that isn't too far from the school...? I guess the back of it. It'll be hard anywhere too public since we might get distracted.

[Her voice is a little dubious.] Well, all right. A little after eight, then? I'll meet you by the school and we'll find a spot.

[A pause.] I'll try to get there on time.

That sounds good.

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