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]

Apologies, ser.

[ gentle. polite. she doubts he's any knight, but she wants to call him something other than a name she doesn't know. sansa flexes the fingers of one hand against the palm of another. uneasy. ]

But I don't know -- what's a chi?

[honorbends]

Zuko.

[ it's said at her uncertainty, because she obviously doesn't know his name. and he watches her for a moment before he moves his tea out of the way, and conjures a ball of fire between his hands, stretching it into a thin line of flames in mid-air. almost like he's holding a string. ]

Chi is what flows through your body, and connects to your soul. It gives you life. I can take that energy, and turn it into fire, by manipulating the flow of energy through me.

[ the fire curls around his fingers briefly before being dissipated into a puff of smoke. ]

You have it too. You just can't turn it into fire.

[steeledskin]

I do not have it.

[ her protest is caught somewhere between -- between what? disgust and envy. uncertainty and conviction. sansa could never be so special as to have bright energy inhabiting her veins. she has blood and steel and nothing else. nothing else, mayhaps, except for northern frost. ]

[honorbends]

You may not feel it, but you have it.

[ don't be sassy, sansa. ]

Everyone does, even people who can't control the elements. It's how you live.

[steeledskin]

[ her attention narrows. she doesn't want to be rude, so she tries to word things as gently as possible: ] Were that the case, I would have thought the maesters back home would have discovered it long ago.

[honorbends]

Mmm. Maybe.

[ okay. that sounds fake, but okay. ]

I guess you wouldn't know it was there unless you were looking for it, anyway.

[steeledskin]

How do I look for it?

[ she's concerned, now. is there something foreign and unnatural living inside of her? mayhaps that's why everything's gone wrong. she could blame all her misfortune on chi. ]