05 - [Voice/Action] - forward dated a few hours :|a

[notaboy_gtfo]

Hey, Hair Loops. [ Yep, that's you, Katara. ] You still alive?

[ And with that awe-inspiring show of humanity out of the way...she really wants to take a walk. The living in a real house thing is good, of course, and it's nice to be in the middle of a rainy day and not be wet. But if she were to stay in today, that would make four days in a row,

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[markofthebrave]

[...Hair-loops?

What is this.

She's tempted to ignore this for about half a second.

Hair-loops.

Honestly.]

[ voice ] ...oh heck, /keeps going 2/4

[markofthebrave]

[And yes of course she's alive.]

[ voice ]

[markofthebrave]

[...

Sigh.]

[ voice ] Done!

[markofthebrave]

It'll take more than that to keep me down.

[Possibly not... much more. She'd been kind of stupid with how much of herself she'd poured into saving your leader.] I'm fine, Smellerbee. Thanks for asking.

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[notaboy_gtfo]

[ She'd have used your real name but that's for chumps. You know how it is. ]

Yeah. Just thought I'd make sure.

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[notaboy_gtfo]

[ Since you kind of waterbent yourself half to death for Jet.

Even though you didn't really have to.

Possibly fidgeting because she is awful at these things. ]

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[notaboy_gtfo]

[ Predictably, pauuuusing first. ]

... And, you know.

Thanks.

[ Yeah, she really, really sucks at this. Losing Jet twice is something she could not have handled, though, and there's no way she was about to say that much.

Thanks, she can do. ]

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[markofthebrave]

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[markofthebrave]

[You don't need to thank me for this.

She doesn't want to be thanked for this. How could she do anything else?

...but Smellerbee had gone out of her way to say it. So...]

You're welcome.

[And she remembers how it felt to just walk away...]

Try to keep him from making a habit of it, okay?

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[notaboy_gtfo]

Oh, there's not gonna be any trying. If he does something stupid, I'm tying him to the house. [ After beating him up. You know how it is. ]

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[markofthebrave]

[...anything stupid?

If Jet is now what he was like last time, then...] I have a feeling you're going to need a lot of rope.

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[notaboy_gtfo]

[ She can almost grin at that one; it's probably true, after all. ]

We'll talk to him. He doesn't always think, but he's a smart guy. [ Which Katara probably already knew.

...things don't have to turn out any way but decent, here. It can be a real chance at another fresh start, and they'll figure out a way to make Jet see as much even if they have to drag him to the conclusion kicking and screaming. 8| ]

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[markofthebrave]

[She does know that. She just doesn't know what he's going to do with all those smarts.]

I know. ...did you guys tell him that the war was over?

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[notaboy_gtfo]

[ Resisting urge to say something sarcastic- resisting.

...okay, she'll settle for something more wry. Because this can be given a spin of good humor, right. Nice subject. ]

Yeah, we thought we'd mention that.

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[markofthebrave]

[It's not that she thought you wouldn't, it's just that she has an underlying motivation.]

Good. So he knows he doesn't have to worry about - anything like that here.

[Anything like Zuko. Or firebenders at all. Or the fact that there is no war here. She just doesn't want to have to deal with that.

There are other questions, but they're not exactly open-filtered ones.]

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[notaboy_gtfo]

... There's a lot to explain. [ And they're not sure how he'll take a lot of things, but even she knows this is kind of free eavesdropping game. ] But we won't have him sitting around blind.