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-AU Interlude- [Action] .027

Aug 20, 2010 22:15

[...sometime this morning, Katara wakes up slowly, prodded too it by the pain in her back and the nagging sensation that something is different. The air isn't salty. She's not cold. The ship isn't moving ( Read more... )

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offallingsnow August 21 2010, 04:28:18 UTC

[Well, here, you can at least have someone wearing blue. She sees you in the shadows there, child, but she came into this forest to get out of the village and practice. ...And practice she will, this time specifically with water artes.]

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 07:06:32 UTC

Wandering the forest alone and injured can be dangerous too.

The name of the village is Luceti. Have you heard it before?

southernsquirt August 21 2010, 07:08:55 UTC

[And once again the wibble face, because she knows it could be dangerous but she doesn't see that she had any other choice. At the question, Katara shakes her head.]

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 11:58:48 UTC

[Nephry expected that answer. Humming to herself for a moment, she takes the canteen off her waist and holds it out toward Katara]

Are you thirsty? It's cold water.

southernsquirt August 21 2010, 15:41:22 UTC

[Katara hesitates. She is thirsty. But taking that canteen means that she'll come close enough to be grabbed. She somehow doesn't think this lady will throw it at her... and even if she did, Katara's not sure she could catch it with her burned hands.

...she is really thirsty. And... this lady doesn't look like she's going to hurt her...

...

...

Katara takes a few more hesitant steps closer, stopping at whatever maximum distance she can reach out to take the canteen from, and slowly does so.]

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 15:52:14 UTC

[Nephry just smiles, making sure the girl has a good grip on the canteen before she let's go. Then she sits back, making it as clear as possible through body language that no grabbing ever crossed her mind.]

Drink as much as you need. ...May I ask you something else?

southernsquirt August 21 2010, 16:03:51 UTC

[Katara takes one step back anyway, but puts the canteen up to her lips and takes a deep drink anyway. She knows she should drink slowly, but she's just so thirsty, and who knows if it will be taken right back again? It's worth the stomach ache to have water. When no one snatches it away, Katara lowers the canteen to say a quiet:] Thank you.

[She takes another drought of water from the canteen, and then nods at Nephry's question.]

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 16:14:26 UTC

What's your name? Mine is Nephry.

[She frowns slightly again, hmmming a little at the state of those hands]

I suppose I do have another question. I don't want to scare you, and you are free to refuse. May I see your hands?

[Without leaning forward, she holds out a hand for Katare, palm up] I promise not to hurt you, if you agree.

southernsquirt August 21 2010, 16:23:13 UTC

[Katara hesitates. Nephry's been really, really nice. The nicest anyone has been to Katara in what seems like a really long time.

But she really, really doesn't want to go back. And if they've been looking for her, they have her name. She doesn't want to get Nephry in trouble if they're looking for her and find out that Nephry hadn't given her to them.

...but she's never seen anyone with Nephry's hair and eye color before, and her gaze keeps drifting to the woman's ponytail and wings and maybe...]

...Is the Fire Nation in charge here?

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 16:27:21 UTC

No. Not unless things have changed in the last six hours. The village governs itself, for the most part.

southernsquirt August 21 2010, 16:36:45 UTC

[Hello, tremendous relief. If they're not in charge, Katara can tell Nephry her name.]

I'm Katara.

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 16:38:55 UTC

That's quite a nice name, Katara.

...I'm originally from near the North Pole. It's very warm here in comparison, isn't it?

southernsquirt August 21 2010, 17:06:15 UTC

[She nods. She'd abandoned the outerlayer of her badly burned parka ages back, and she's still hot in her tiger-seal leathers.] Like the Fire Nation.

[Not that she's... you know, been there, but she's heard the sailors complain about it enough.]

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 17:45:37 UTC

I can't say I've ever been to the Fire Nation.

Katara...are you hungry, also?

southernsquirt August 21 2010, 18:01:08 UTC

[She hadn't been hungry before, but now that she's not thirsty anymore - oh yes she is. She nods a little, eyes wide.]

offallingsnow August 21 2010, 19:44:20 UTC

Well, I'm afraid I don't have any food with me. And all I can offer you is my word that you can trust me. I understand if that isn't enough for you right now. If you're willing to come with me, though, there is a lot of food in my house. It's set a lot farther into the forest than most others, and we could take care of those burns there too. You'd feel better.

[and she holds out a hand again. That's more than she's said at once in a long time, but it was all sincere.]

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