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Hey, Caesar! Do you mind if I stop by this afternoon? [Because mind or not, she is coming. But before she gets there, if you asked after her while she had eye-mushi and she hasn't spoken to you yet, she's looking for you. She will be all about town, since she doesn't know where some of you live. She also plans on checking in with Sokka and the rest of the Gaang at some point today.]

[And later in the evening, after dinner and far past when she is usually fast asleep, you can find Katara practicing not far from her house. Since Ginko died she's been robbed of her rest - combine that with the draft list being posted and she's decided to cope the only way she knows how - by using the time to find some peace. For that purpose, she is doing a special form. She runs through the first without doing any bending at all. When she repeats it, she bends thin tendrils of water up and around and over, following the movements of her hands - and when one catches her eye she freezes it in place, creating a small practice area of frozen arches and swirls.

They won't last long, especially not in the heat of a summer night. That's not the point. That's not the point at all.]

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I'd really appreciate it. [He smiles a little.] It's pretty likely that everyone's going to be dispatched in groups. The fact that Sokka can be out on the battlefield while he gives direction will be pretty helpful. He might not make a bad general, of sorts.

I've seen what you can do. Actually... [He pauses briefly, remembering something.] The terrain is a little messy, but we might be able to make good use of that river there. Considering your power, though, we might be able to do a little more than just "make good use of it."

Edited 2010-06-28 02:05 (UTC)

[She nods.] I saw that. It could be very useful. I'll have my full power back outside too. So... take what you've seen, and double it.

For the actual fight, I've thought of a few things that could work already...

Good to hear. If these guys are anything like the last ones we fought, they don't have any particular weaknesses. However, their ability to fly will be a disadvantage for a lot of us. Not to mention there's going to be a lot more of them this time around, too...

When they're in the air... did they fire things from above? Or try to sweep down and pick people up?

I believe their weapons varied, so they can fire things, all right. If they sweep down, I'd figure they'd just attack, though, and not try to pick anyone up or anything unless they were ordered to. But this also assumes we fight soldiers similar to those we fought before. Those last ones were pretty average. We won't know if that'll be the case again until the Malnosso officially announce the draft.

[She shrugs a single shoulder, a hard light entering her eyes for a moment.] Wings freeze very easily. They might not find the air as safe as they thought.

[He nods. That sounds like a pretty darn useful trick.] Not only that, but if we can get them out of the air and into the river, we'd really have an advantage over them.

Hmm... Well, I can't make it rain, although if Aang was here - [A pang at that, she moves past it] - if we had height on them I could still make it hard on them to fly, but I don't know anyone who's coming who can fly...

...though if I stay by the river, I could probably just grab them out of the sky. It depends on how high up they are. And I don't know how long I could keep that up - not more than a few hours.

There's a point at which the river branches off and eventually comes back together. That right there would be a good place for a trap. [It's pretty obvious what he's thinking. And, heck, someone pulling them down was even better than any regular trap they could have used.]

[She nods again - she doesn't really see what difference it will make, but if he thinks that's a good spot... she wonders if she can freeze them as she pulls them down. That would probably be tricky.]

If you had a few people there with me [she pales a little because - still when she fights, she moves first to disable] to take care of them when they're down, that would be.. better..

[Starting to feel a little sick now, as she imagines crushing their wings and throwing them out of the sky... and she still doesn't even know why.]

Of course. You wouldn't be there alone. You'd probably have your hands full with just taking them down, so we can leave the rest to the others. It's a good spot because enemies were sighted on both sides of the river. Here, you'd be surrounded by it, so you'd be able to take down enemies that attack from either side. On the other hand, if enemies were to catch our men on the wrong side of the river, we could be in trouble. Make sense?

Edited 2010-06-28 05:00 (UTC)

[She nods.] Now that you explained it, yeah.

And I guess it all depends - I can only cover so much area. They might be smart enough to avoid it after a while. But I think it's a good start.

Absolutely. [He nods.] Things are bound to change with time, and we have to be ready for that. Hopefully we'll have taken out a majority of those jerks before that happens, though.

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[action] Good! I think he would have reacted to it more than he did, so. xD

[action] He'd have darn well better!!

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