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[markofthebrave]

[If you're passing by the Seventh Heaven after school today, you will see that once Katara has obtained her hot chocolate and window seat, she's busy flipping through her journal. At a certain point, she'll flip back and forth repeatedly with a poleaxed expression that finally fades into something pensive

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[Action]

[my_yoke_broke]

[Ian's quite a wanderer (hell, he hasn't even settled into one particular apartment yet, he's so used to wandering), and as he's doing so tonight he notices a girl.

... It's like a front-row seat to coolness. 8O

This is that one girl! The one when he was water! It's dark, so she won't really notice him from around a tree peeping in awe, right? Because that's precisely what he's going to do.]

[Action]

[markofthebrave]

[Noooooooot at the moment. You should be good to spy. She'll just keep bending.]

Re: [Action]

[my_yoke_broke]

[Coooool. This is so neat-really, it's a shame he didn't appreciate his own ironic water bending during the event. But it's just not as neat when you're the water, y'know?

/stare stare stare]

[Action]

[markofthebrave]

[After a bit Katara stops and shakes her head, moving back towards the rock with the lantern. If she wasn't concentrating so hard on whatever she's looking at, right about now would be the time when she'd notice someone watching her.]

[Voice]

[no_use_running]

I was here for a year. And I've been here awhile already this time, too. It sort of seems to happen faster than that.

[Voice]

[markofthebrave]

...you mean, you went home and came back already - that's what happened to you?

[She hadn't been sure.]

Re: [Voice]

[no_use_running]

I was home for four years.

[Voice]

[markofthebrave]

[Four years?]

Wow. I hope it was a good time for you.

[Action]

[derek_bliss]

[Derek hadn't really intended to go this way after he'd woken up from his day in the tunnels, but he was still worried about April, so the intention had been to skim by house 55 before heading out into the woods. He has a backpack slung over a shoulder, and several camping tools attached to his belt. He's sticking to the shadows, making use of cover to help him pass unseen, but when he sees Katara practicing, he'll stop to watch for a moment.]

...Learning something new?

[Action]

[markofthebrave]

[Katara starts a bit at the unexpected voice, but it's familiar enough that she doesn't react with ice.]

Oh - Derek! Yes, I am. I'm learning Southern Water Tribe style.

[Action]

[derek_bliss]

Is it much different?

[Derek settles where he is, not approaching any closer. His eyes still have that eerie blue glow to them in the evening half life.]

[Action]

[markofthebrave]

[She frowns down at the scroll in concentration.] The theory behind it's the same, as is the way that you can do the movements, but as for the rest - there are just a few things that I can't quite get. It's like wanting to reach out with your right hand and but needing to use your left.

[voice]

[hazelrink]

...Yeah, time feels really strange now.

[Did she say now? Maybe she meant here. This is something she thinks about a lot]

[voice]

[markofthebrave]

[Hmm.]

How does it feel strange?

[voice]

[hazelrink]

Well um... it feels... It feels a little like everything is moving really slow, sometimes.

[voice]

[markofthebrave]

Slow... because the days are long?

[offallingsnow]

It does often seem to stop, and then disappear suddenly.

[markofthebrave]

That's true...

[Time is weird.]

[offallingsnow]

Do you have a reason for paying particular attention to the time today?

[markofthebrave]

I've been here a year, apparently.

[It's a little hollow inside to say that. She still doesn't know how she feels about that.]

I didn't realize it had been so long.