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[Accidental Voice] .001

[Stirring awake, the first thing she notices is that it's cold -- and it's not cold in the fire nation. Glancing up and around there are snowflakes all around her... and no one in her group.] Aang? Sokka? Toph?

Where are my clothes? [Shuddering, she rubs her arms together.]

[Time to get a little louder now, stomping around, and where is the fire and why is she in a forest?] Toph? Aang? Sokka!? This isn't funny!

Ow! What? What is this? [The sound of turning pages. She'll close it and start looking around in a minute for some shelter and her friends, not necessarily in that order. This Southern Watertribe girl is not about to get frostbite in some strange forest just because she woke up in weird clothes with no shoes.]

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[She has found a stick and is poking the book with it to make sure it's not... some sort of weird... thing.] ...You're talking through a book? ...So you're not the book.

That's right, the same as how you're talking to me with yours. Nope, I'm Tormod.

[OK, maybe the book's not talking.] Oh. OK. Um.. hi. I guess. Where are we?

It's a little boggling at first, but nothing you can't overcome. This is Luceti. What's your name?

I'm Katara. [shudder] Is Luceti the name of the forest?

Nice to meet you, Katara! I'm not sure if the forest has a name. This entire place is called Luceti from what I hear, which is basically a world of its own.

...World of it's own? [Starting to doubt the voice from the journal's reliability now, but getting out of the cold is more important.] So there's another place beside the forest?

Unbelievable, isn't it? Well, there's a forest near the village, which is probably the one you're in. I woke up in the mountains, myself.

...Right. So where's this village?

Good question. I arrived a couple hours ago. I don't know the forest at all. But I can always go in and try to find you, if you need me to.

[Well, she can hear the lecture now, but it's not as if she can't take care of herself. And hey, if this guy's lost he probably needs to get to this village too!] That would be great! Two is better than one, right?

Right! Could you describe any peculiar landmarks where you are? The forest can look the same after a while, but there has to be something distinctly unique.

There's a sort of... yellowish toadstool. And one of the trees has a crack down the middle of it. Here, wait, I have an idea. [There's snow falling all around -- perfect material for a little bending.] You could look for a large ice column.

[And she starts pulling water to do it -- and it's a lot harder than it should be, and that confuses her a lot but she's not going to say anything. After a few minutes there's a tall, thin flagpole of ice for him to look for.]

A large ice column? Okay.

Hey, Kata -- you look cold!

[And off comes the top of the ice flagpole to hover above her hand in a bubble. Just in case.]

Of course I'm cold, it's freezing out -- you have wings!

Well, yeah, everybody here has -- How are you doing that!?

I'm a waterbender. It's just -- what I do. What do you mean everyone here has wings?

You . . . bend water? As in, you manipulate it? I don't know much about the details, but we all have wings, regardless of whether we had them before or not.

[Twisting her head behind her she turns to confirm his words -- and sure enough. Wings. She drops the water in shock. Gaah!

[Tries tugging on her wings.] Ow! What is going on? How did this -- [OK. Deep breath. Squares her shoulders.] It doesn't matter. We have to get out of here before we both freeze.

I don't think tugging on it is such a good idea. And that would be a good idea. Let's see if I can remember how I came . . .

Do you want it? To keep yourself warmer.

[Suddenly aware that she wearing not so much] Um. That would be really great. That's very kind of you. Thanks.

We should head to the river. My brother was talking to me through the book, and he said it would lead us to the village.

Right then.

Your brother is here? I suppose we'll follow his directions, in that case.

Thank you. [Since ripping Tormod's cape to make moccasins seems rude, she'll just wrap that around her shoulders.]

He and my friend Toph will meet us there. Just give me a minute... [Closing her eyes, Katara concentrates to feel which direction the river is. It's harder than it should be and it takes her a minute.] It's that way.

Edited 2010-02-07 07:56 (UTC)

You're welcome. Gotcha. Can you tell because you're -- what was it -- a waterbender?

[Have a nod, and a brow furrow, because this is taking work and something this simple should be like breathing.] Yeah. I've always been able to know where water is.

...do you not have benders where you are?

(OOC: Should we move down to the other thread so we can meet Toph and Sokka by the river or ask them to come up here?)

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