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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[The flashes interest Bernkastel as much as the water movement. A lost one from her fragment most likely. Losing people is always a difficult thing to go through for humans for whatever reason. Bernkastel herself can't really understand it as much as she wishes to.

Hoping for something truly spectacular to happen, Bern will continue to observe.]

[Since this is just a practice session, Bern will probably be disappointed. Unless you count the amount of control necessary to split the streams encircling her arms from three to four at the instance of another and another flash, Katara is keeping this session seemingly simple.

It doesn't seem to be working - in driving the images from her mind. Right now, even if the new split forced her to concentrate on her even further, she still felt Aang's absence.]

[Even something she might see as simple looks amazing to the witch, who has never witnessed someone moving water without the use of magic. At the same time the constant stream of images of another person also make Bern wonder who the person is. Was he a friend of hers? Perhaps a lover? She can almost feel some sense of drama occurring within the movements of the other. Bernkastel knows that the sounds are very audible and there's a good chance the girl below her may hear them, but at the same time she sees no reason to quieting her thoughts for the sake of another.]

[The laughter coming seemingly out of no-where is enough to have Katara glance up sharply, but the water never falters as Katara slides easily into a ready stance.]

Oh - hello. [She relaxes her stance slightly.] I didn't see you there.

[Her thought bubble vanishes, the sound of her laughs subsiding with it. Darn and here she was hoping for a good show]

My apologies. I didn't mean to disturb your fun.

[And at that, Katara grins for a moment - a real honest-to-goodness, cheek-splitting grin. Because bending is deadly, and it's hard work, and discipline, and it takes a ton of concentration... and she loves being able to do it with every fiber of her being.]

It is fun. But that's okay, I don't mind. I can always get back to practicing later. I'm Katara.

Bernkastel. A pleasure to meet you, Katara. Your technique is quite intriguing - I have never seen anything like it in all my years. The fragment you come from must be exciting.

[Katara tilts her head in question.] (('All her years?' She doesn't look much older than me...))

Fragment? Do you mean world? I've never heard them referred to that way before.

Yes. I call them 'fragments' because whenever I peer at all the thousands upon millions of worlds at once in a vast sea, they appear as small fragment pieces. Together all those small pieces form a giant universe. Luceti, for instance, is just one piece of the many.

[Okay. That's amazing.] Wow - you can do that? How?

Because I am a witch. The Witch of Miracles, who can peer into the kaleidoscope and observe all worlds.

...I have no idea what that means, but it sounds amazing, and beautiful. Is that what you did on your world - fragment? Miracles?

I don't have a fragment which I particularly call my personal home. I'm always traveling through fragments, looking for something to interest me. As for miracles - I rarely grant any.

Oh. I see. [Well, no. Not really. And then she shakes her head.] So... you're like a nomad?

I prefer the term voyager, but yes you can say that. It's a rather interesting life you could say.

It sounds like it. Have you seen many interesting things?

[Yup. She's still fascinated.]

Sometimes. I never had much chance to travel before coming here, due to circumstances beyond my control.

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A cruel fate, which I sympathized with.

That - that's horrible.

Nobody ever cries for the bird in its cage. It will almost never receive any sympathy or hope of being released. That is the situation that I have found myself and others stuck in many times. Luceti is no different from any of the other cages I have seen - so do not despair for me. I am no different from the other people in Luceti trapped in such a prison, such as yourself.

[As Bernkastel thought appears, another image (http://i27.tinypic.com/1z6qfee.jpg) of one of her enemies appears.]

[Really, Katara is so horrified at this that for a long moment, she has nothing to say. Her thought bubble is completely blank.]

...The person who did this to you... is here?

Oh no, don't misunderstand. She didn't do anything to me. I was trapped previously by another who isn't here. And I escaped.

But the witch who is here is powerful nonetheless and trapped a human within a different horrific cage. I was supporting that human as best as I could, so he could escape her death trap, before I was taken here. She's a very unpredictable person in a childish way.

I'm sorry. [There's a long pause.] I thought I'd seen the horrible things that people could do to each other, but I've never seen anything like that. I'm glad that you were there to support whoever she had trapped, and I hope that when we're free of this place, you'll be able to go back and help him get free as well.

I wouldn't mind trapping her in Luceti as a permanent residence, but until she leaves here that person is still trapped. Without an opponent their game is suspended. As of now he has no hope to escape.

Do you really think that we'll be free of Luceti anytime soon? I must say I'm rather doubtful of such optimism.

I don't know if it will be soon. But I do know that we'll get out of here. We have to. I have things that I need to do back home... things that other people remember me doing, that I haven't experienced yet. So we'll get out of here. We have to.

Interesting. From experience let me advise you that escaping a fragment designed to be a cage isn't a simple task. You have the will, but what type of plan do you have?

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