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[markofthebrave]

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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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[markofthebrave]

[Katara is more than a little stung at Bern's assessment, but after seeing a bit of her history she can't hold it against her.] ((And briefly, there's an image of Katara on a prison ship, standing on a table and speaking to a group of beaten down people - then her, and Sokka and Aang, and coal - and a quick image of firebenders being swept over the edge of the ship... and then there's an image of the barrier, the wings, - and a flash to what she'd seen recorded of Jacob's death.))

From what I've heard - the Malnosso don't even have the ability to control who comes here and who goes home. They know more about Shifting than we do, but even when they experiment with us they don't really know what they're doing.

It's true that I don't know what's going on here - I've never been any place like this before, never seen anything like this - and that's why my only plan is to wait and see what I can learn, work with whoever I can in order to get us all home.

And if you have any better ideas, I'd love to hear it.

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[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

[Bern stares at the fleeting images, taking minor interest in them again.]

Oh? That's interesting - I was under the assumption they brought us to Luceti. But if they aren't then I wonder who might be.

Well I can admit freely that I don't have any better ideas at this time. I still need to learn more about the conditions of this fragment, besides the obvious things. But your conquest is nostalgic and the situation is rather disparaging. I won't mind assisting you if you can make things interesting in this world for me.

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[markofthebrave]

It's not something we're really supposed to talk about on the journals... but everyone who's been here a while seems to be pretty much sure that the Shifting was what brought the Malnosso here... and they are still trying to figure out a way to master it. If you think about it, it makes sense - that's why they experiment on us once a month. They use Shifting to try to get a better understanding of what it can do.

[Her mouth forms into a thin line.] I spoke with one of them once, after an experiment. He didn't sound like he knew what he was doing at all. ((And Catharine's voice will say: "Oh! I misplaced a decimal point. My apologies, my dear."))

[Katara hears that, doesn't like it, and shakes her head to address the other thing Bern said.] And I don't know if I can make things interesting for you - [she laughs a little] I don't even know what interests you.

But I do know [And she grows serious again] that we're all in this together. So if you can think of something that will get us home, I'll help you. And if I can think of something... I'll let you know.

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[kakeravoyager.livejournal.com]

Hmph. Beings without the capability of learning magic trying to attempt it? With science nonetheless. I wonder if I should laugh or cry for them. Traveling between fragments is a complex art and I doubt experimenting on the people that are brought here would be useful. You can't just transplant magic into a person.

Your unique talent with water is enough to be peek my curiosity, so perhaps one day it will bloom into something very entertaining. When it does happen I hope to be there to see it. []