markofthebrave | [ Action, Voice ] .025

Entry tags:

*brook,
*caesar,
*derek,
*ginko,
*nami,
*raine,
*san,
*selphie,
*sokka,
*usopp,
...this place is so...,
best coping mechanism ever,
homesickness sucks,
last waterbender of her tribe,
messing with a little girl's dream,
might need something stronger than soda,
mother hen,
this isn't her war,
war sucks

[ Action, Voice ] .025

[Today - hadn't been so bad. Twenty of them, maybe? It sure seemed like there were a lot less out here than they'd been led to expect, and that was only a good thing because she was tired. The weight of doing this every day was getting to her. Blood had dried in clumps in her hair, and she'd been too tired to bend it out. Now as she stood in the shower, the water collecting at her feet was pink.

It isn't supposed to be pink.

Her stomach heaves and Katara shuts her eyes and stands under the water until even the Malnosso's hotel runs out of hot water, and long after it turns cold.

The thought of going to sleep leaves her restless, and after staring at herself in the mirror too long, she goes to knock on some doors. She doesn't plan on staying long, but just - seeing - that Toph and Sokka are still all right will do her good. She hesitates, and then heads towards Caesar's door as well. When she returns, she's still awake, and so instead of a quick line that she won't respond to anyway, she makes a voice post tonight.]

Hey everyone! How are things going there?

[Hesitation.]
Nami, is... the house still standing?

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[He looks over to the button and shrugs.]

Not exactly. I really only asked for the things I needed. [He motions toward the table in his room. He has a copy of the map there, but there are notes, books (which he didn't really need), and other tools littering the table as well. ~~Which makes you wonder, where the hell does he eat?~~] I, uh, didn't need a lot.

[It does in fact, make her wonder. And she glances around for any signs of food. ~~Because boys are incapable of cleaning up after themselves, clearly.~~]

Did you eat dinner already?

[This one can! If only because his housemates won't do it for him, sob. He shakes his head.]

No. I was thinking about it before you showed up, but I figured that it can wait a while.

[One hand goes to her stomach.] I wasn't hungry before... I am now. Want to order something?

[He shrugs slightly.] If you want. [He stands up to go clear off the table. If it was just him, he wouldn't bother - he'd just eat somewhere else. But his housemates are the proper type, so he's getting used to having to set the table right, too.] Did you have something in mind?

[She shrugs before standing up to help him with that.] Why don't you order something from your world and I'll order something from mine? We can try them both.

That doesn't sound like a bad idea. [He nods, sliding some books and his journal off of the map so he could roll it up and put it somewhere else for now. He'll take some of the books and drop them off on his bed as well.]

[When she sees that he's got a certain method for clearing off the table, she decides to let him finish up doing that and goes over to the red button.]

Maybe something light? Some stewed sea prunes would probably be good...

[Caesar nearly drops the last couple of books on his bed when she says that.]

Stewed sea prunes?

[...what?]

[She glances back over at him.]

It's a traditional Watertribe dish. [One that Aang and Toph seem not to care for very much...]

...maybe I'll just order enough of that for one.

Edited 2010-08-02 04:27 (UTC)

I-I see... [Caesar looks away, stuffing some loose sheets of paper into his journal. He didn't quite mean to react so quickly and so rudely. But as you know, Caesar has no filter.] You can go ahead with that. I'm still thinking.

[So she does, in fact, just go ahead and order that. She also orders Fire Flakes and a more traditional Earth Kingdom dish involving rice and rolls of finely spiced meat.]

You might like the Earth Kingdom food. And you can always try the stewed sea prunes if you want. I think they're pretty good.

I guess I won't know until I try. [If Katara's paying attention, there is a vaguely amused look on Caesar's face when he says that. Silly Silverbergs and their thoughts. After she finishes, he'll walk over and quietly request his own food. ~~Unfortunately, food is pretty average in Suikoden.~~ When Caesar's done, he sits at the table just after their food makes an appearance.]

Yakisoba. I'm no good at making this stuff myself, so this is a good opportunity. [...] And soda.

It smells good! [If only the same could be said for the stewed sea prunes, sob. She'd requested a portion for one and only takes about half of it so she can try some of the yakisoba and Earth Kingdom food.]

[I-ignoring that smell for now as he sort of reminisces.]

We had a decent chef at the castle. This looks a little better than anything she made, though. [Not that he was an expert on food, but that didn't mean he couldn't complain about it anyway. He only glances at the stewed sea prunes (alsdjflahsk), but he doesn't mind looking over the Earth Kingdom food.] That doesn't look too bad.

You grew up in a castle?

[He chuckles, amused.] No, we stayed in a castle during the war. I grew up in a big house, but it wasn't even close to a castle.

Wow, really? A castle the first time, and a hotel the second? If I ever have to do this again, I know who I'm going with.

[And she grins and starts in on her stewed sea prunes.] What was it like, where you grew up?

Are you kidding? That castle was falling apart! It's nothing to be excited about. [But it's been so long that he probably wouldn't mind seeing it again. He takes a drink of his soda while he contemplates how to answer her question. It was kind of vague, so he goes with the first answer that comes to mind.] Uh... Well, let's see. I grew up in the city of Gregminster, the capital of the Toran Republic. It's a beautiful and lively city, famed for its art and ceramics. My family's lived there for generations, so I lived in the manor they passed down for who knows how long.

[Yeah, so many of those things are things that she's only ever heard about, or seen this past year while traveling, she doesn't even know how to compare or what to ask.]

Was it nice?

[He nods.] It wasn't bad. We were nobles, so I didn't have to do very much as a kid. All I had to do was focus on my studies. I never cared for that, but I didn't mind so much because my brother was there.

[Mmm, stewed sea prunes. She takes a healthy bite and tries to think about what life would be like if all she had to do was sit and study.

...she'd probably go insane in a month due to lack of activity. So she latches on to something she can relate to.]

How much older is your brother?

Eight years older... Normally. Ten years now, I guess. [He starts eating his food now, mostly in an attempt to push away that feeling he got when he thought about how long his brother had been here.] I know he doesn't look it, but he took very good care of me when we were kids.

Sokka's four months older than me in Luceti than he would be at home. We're usually just a little more than a year apart. [Yeah, it's weird to think about time in Luceti... soon she'll have been here for almost as long as she's known Aang.]

What did you two do when you were kids? Just study?

Huh. I guess it could be worse. You could have ended up older than him somehow. [...but that was an amusing thought, in his own case. He shakes his head at her question.]

No. We studied a lot, but we were still kids. We did, uh... kid things, I guess. You know, we played and we read together. We used to take walks and just... look at things. Like plants and bugs. [He shrugs.] It was simple, but I enjoyed it.

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