Tha sin mar bhàs.

[hollystrike]

Who: Katie and you!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Planetside
When: Now-ish

[Amusement Park]

[So this is where she goes when she wants time to think, apparently.  The bunker is a place she won't enter; between the heavy aftermath of a mass death and the understandably stricken reactions of its visitors, the atmosphere is far too toxic.  But it doesn't mean she isn't grieving.  The deaths could not be helped and are god knows how far in the past, but the fact that these people have been forgotten - not acknowledged even by this automated town, let alone the rest of space - is something that sits very poorly.  She can't even change anything about the town to reflect its population's final days.

She's walking the rollercoaster tracks, very high up, thinking over the issue.  Don't ask how she got up that high.  And don't worry if you should be using the rollercoaster at the time; she can avoid you.  Might give you a bit of a scare, though, sorry.

Eventually, she puts a call through to Sam.]

[Outside of town]

[As far as she can go before she suspects (or hopes) she's outside the range of the city's replication science so her work isn't scrubbed.  She's not too far from the bunker; it would be pointless if she were too far away from it. 

She finds a rock face smooth enough, and between a thick blade and Kirito's lightsaber she carves a memorial.  Maybe nobody will ever see it, but if any other visitors come to this place, they should know what happened.  It's worth the extra headache.]

[And Broadcast]

I've decided to quit making dreamcatchers and move on to voodoo dolls instead.  It's more fun.  So if you'd like to take one before I end up throwing them all out, feel free.

[Just so you know.  Totally honest, as usual.  Less cheerful than normal.

If anyone wants her she'll be curled up in her office with Licorice on her lap.  She's so tired of these planets.]

Comments

[hollystrike]

That's even better. I shall have to meet him one day, clearly. I'm a collector of weird dances.

[alwayscomeback]

There's no way he wouldn't be thrilled to show you it. A lot. You'd bring it on yourself. There'd be no saving you.

[hollystrike]

I'm unsavable to begin with. [Grin.] Besides, it seems to me world savers could do with a timeout to do kooky dances, don't you think?

[alwayscomeback]

Says you.

And yeah, especially when they're technically only 12 years old. He deserves to be a kid.

[Sokka says that as if HIS childhood wasn't ripped from him too, but he's made his peace with it. All grown up now anyway. ]

[hollystrike]

[/record scratch. There went all her good humour.]

He's twelve?

[alwayscomeback]

Twelve. I mean, technically a hundred and twelve, but it doesn't count because of all the- uh being frozen thing. He was fifteen when I last saw him- but absolutely twelve during the war- with all the weight of the world on his shoulders.

[Sometimes, it was easy to forget how YOUNG Aang was- how young they all were, but Aang especially. Having to deal with these life and death scenarios. It was a lot. ]

[hollystrike]

How did he cope?

[Because wow, um. As a kid she'd totally buy into the HECK YEAH, CHILD SAVES WORLD thing. But as an adult, she's just pissed.]

[alwayscomeback]

He had us to support him. There were times where he broke down and couldn't cope. But Avatars- they can go into this trance and speak to their previous incarnations. He...did that quite a bit. They advised him as best they could.

[hollystrike]

[Oh. That. Is a concept she's more than familiar with. Huh.]

You shouldn't tell me these sorts of things. How am I meant to keep thinking of you as annoying?

[alwayscomeback]

[He flashes her a wry smile.]

You're right, that's really inconsiderate of me. Would it help if I listed some of the crappy things I've done to balance it out?

[hollystrike]

Absolutely. Let's hear them all so I can blackmail you later.

[alwayscomeback]

[He puts a hand to his chest in faux drama.]

You wound me, Katie. Actually wound me.

[hollystrike]

Not yet, I haven't.

[Innocently.]

Oh. Did I mention I met your sister?

[alwayscomeback]

Yet.

No, but she mentioned she'd met you.

[hollystrike]

What a shock. [Not that Katie told her to say hi or anything.] Did she tell you that we'd met before?

[alwayscomeback]

[He had a whole conversation with Katara about how weird that was okay. ]

She did. That's...uh. Something I wasn't expecting.

[hollystrike]

Should I assume that you don't remember meeting me before, then?

[alwayscomeback]

Sorry, I don't.

[ Strangely he does actually look a little genuinely sorry there.]

The only place I remember other than home is here. I've been to lots of other kidnap-y worlds, apparently- but I don't remember any of them.

[hollystrike]

[Aw, Sokka. She sort of grudgingly likes you. Stop that.]

I'm disappointed I don't remember mine. I bet I'd look really cute with a tiny set of wings.

[alwayscomeback]

[He can't stop, he won't stop. ]

Probably, but the wing thing still sounds kind weird for me. I mean, what's their point if you can't even fly?

[hollystrike]

You can't? [Wait what. That's so disappointing.]

Never mind. I take it back.

[alwayscomeback]

I know right? They're just...little wings that do...something I forget. But they can't fly with them. Super lame.

[hollystrike]

Perhaps they just got the scale wrong. They thought the inmates were actually all three inches tall.

[alwayscomeback]

You know, that's a good point. Maybe it was a prison for kids or something.

...

It's really depressing I can fully believe that would be a thing.

[hollystrike]

You can fully believe in kid prisons. You should at least balance that out by believing in magic and superstition.