Sokka the 18th - [Action]

[markofthewise]

[So after Katara has had her counseling session (with Sokka naturally following her around and being even more Batman super spy than usual), the two will be heading deep in the forest to search for Zuko. They'll try to raise him a few times on the journals, but are otherwise prepared to stay a few nights in the forest, even packing enough gear to

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[markofthebrave]

[As darkness falls, the Watertribe sibs have set up camps between the two lakes. Katara is making dinner from what Sokka packed. It was an unsuccessful day, but even so she's a little too quiet... and so is he.]

[markofthewise]

[Sokka will return from setting up their tent and sleeping bags and come to sit next to her by the fire. After a whole day of fruitless searching and sporadic conversation between the two, the silence between the two is almost stifling.]

... I kind of missed doing this.

[markofthebrave]

Doing what? Watching me cook over a camp fire?

[markofthewise]

Well, there's that. But mostly the camping. It's been over three months since I slept outside.

[markofthebrave]

I keep forgetting that you've been here longer than me.

[She glances up.] The stars are in different patterns here.

[markofthewise]

Yeah. [He stares up at them. The stars were different when they went from the South Pole to the North Pole... but there was at least the familiarity of the Moon there.

But this isn't even the same Moon.] I wonder if people have picked out new constellations here.

[markofthebrave]

That one looks kind of like a tigerdillo.

[markofthewise]

You mean that one? I was going to say it looked like you.

[markofthebrave]

Jerk. And here I was being nice and not pointing out how that one reminded me of your big ears.

[markofthewise]

I happen to be quite proud of my freakishly large ears.

[markofthebrave]

That's a new tune. [Dinner's done. She'll automatically portion him out a serving and hand it to him. Instead of eating herself, she lies back to get a better look at the sky. She hasn't eaten much since yesterday, even though she knows she needs to keep up her strength.]

That one looks like a dragon.

[markofthewise]

[He starts eating, occasionally looking up at the stars.] You know, Aang got to see real dragons. [But he then notices she isn't eating.] Not hungry?

[markofthebrave]

[Busted. Rather than answer, she'll sigh and lever herself up to grab a small portion and poke at it.]

When he and Zuko went to learn firebending, right? That sounds amazing... maybe when we get back, they'll bring us to go see.

[markofthewise]

Just as long as we don't have to survive the whole engulfed in flames thing, I'm completely down with that.

[markofthebrave]

Heh. [And she pokes more at her food. Poke, poke.]

It would be nice just to see them...

[markofthewise]

Yeah...

[But now he knows there's something they need to talk about.] I know you're planning something, Katara. I'm not sure what it is. But I think you should tell me.