one fish, two fish, red fish, (blue fish)!!

[honorbends]

Who: The passengers of the Blue Fish and visitors!
Action: The Blue Fish!
When: It's a mingle for the month of January, losers!

[ mingle for the month for the blue fish, to meet up with new crew members, hash out stuff. come get free therapy from zuko, who has 100% put up a sign on his door saying 10 credits because allen owes him money. ]

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[steeledskin]

[ she finds it rather confusing with formalities. alas. ]

Only -- only Sokka? [ no other name? she frowns. ]

[alwayscomeback]

Well, technically it's Sokka of the Water Tribe, but that's a mouthful. Just Sokka will do.

[steeledskin]

[ sokka of the water tribe. tribe of what, she wonders? ]

As you say. [ her smile is diluted -- ghostish. ] Sokka.

[alwayscomeback]

[It's the BEST tribe, gosh Sansa. ]

There you go! That wasn't so hard, was it?

[steeledskin]

[ harder than you know, captain sokka. ]

I imagine not. [ crisp -- dutiful, almost. her allegiance rests with her brothers, but sokka is the leader of this ship. it's a distinction she will not quickly forget. ] Have you been captain here for long?

[alwayscomeback]

[His smile turns fond and he nods. ]

Uh huh. Over a year, now. I showed up not long after this cycle of the Drift Fleet started.

[steeledskin]

[ uh-oh. ]

This...cycle. The fleet has cycles? [ her brows knit. ] What does that mean for us?

[alwayscomeback]

Apparently. This is supposed to be the twelfth cycle, but we don't know what happened to the people before us.

[He heaves to a sigh, crossing his arms and leaning on the wall. This still bugs him.]

They just said the one who won went home. When I asked them about people who didn't win, even people who vanished from this cycle, they didn't give me a straight answer.

[steeledskin]

[ it's all a little too much. cycles; winners; vanishings. she isn't certain she can stomach the possibility that this is merely another sort of game. she'd been a reluctant pawn in the last one, so what is she meant to be in this one? ]

All the same, Sokka, [ she exhales, ] what was their answer? Straight or not.

[ the crooked answers have become something of her specialty. ]

[alwayscomeback]

You're not gonna like it.

[Still, he won't keep it away from her. ]

They said they were safe, but every time I tried to get out of them where they were, they just said they couldn't reveal it because it would "ruin the movie magic".

[steeledskin]

They are sorcerers. [ perhaps she misunderstands 'movie magic'. but, in a sense, this is heartening. if sorcery is at the heart of this problem, then perhaps james potter can help. ]

[alwayscomeback]

Oh...um. Maybe?

[Wow he has got so used to slang now that he forgets some people will Not Get It. ]

It's more a figure of speech. Movies aren't really magic. It's all special effects and science.

[steeledskin]

[ bran has tried explaining movies to her; it's a process. ]

Chicanery, then.

[alwayscomeback]

[Sokka rubs the back of his head. ]

Uh...I'm not sure what that means.

[steeledskin]

I believe they are tricking us, Sokka.

[alwayscomeback]

OH!

[Learn a new thing every day. ]

Then yeah. That's for sure. They're the type, y'know? Always got something sneaky going on.

[steeledskin]

-- Have you ever spoken with them?

[alwayscomeback]

Twice. It was when we were all stuck on the Marsiva, during this thing called calibrations. [He shrugs. ] They weren't helpful to anyone who talked to them. Just gave us half-answers to everything.

[steeledskin]

They sound like courtiers. Politicians.

[alwayscomeback]

You got that right, Sansa. I don't think we'll ever get the actual truth out of them.

[steeledskin]

You ought to trick them into telling you the truth.

[alwayscomeback]

[Actually. ]

You know...that's not a half bad idea. I mean, it's have to be a good trick, but it might actually work. The direct approach sure isn't.

[steeledskin]

[ her chin dips. it's not good, she thinks, to betray her thinking mind to him. but he's their captain. and she's been good to bran. if there's anyone she ought to support, it should be him.

feeling a sense of wayward duty: ] I wonder what it is they want from us. Truly.

[ find out what a man wants, baelish told her, and you'll learn how to move him. ]

[alwayscomeback]

[He'd be honoured for the thought, honestly. He sighs, giving a shrug. ]

That's what we gotta work out. It can't all just be for the ratings. That would be so...pointless.

[steeledskin]

It could be we're being trained for something.

[ she's been thinking about this a great deal. politicians are groomed, are they not? and baelish teaches her how to play the game. and everyone keeps calling this a game or a mummer's show. perhaps they're being taught something that's useful to the atroma. ]