Twenty-somethings gotta twenty-something

[mikangirl]

Who: Everyone invited, everyone gatecrashing (technically you're all invited, so...)
Broadcast: Who knows, maybe some drunken texting later on
Action: Iskaulit Pool!
When: 3 July

[It's a party for a narcissistic redhead who likes to be reminded she's alive.  Come celebrate!  Alternately, come sneak in and steal the food!  There's a bar set up for drinks drastically lowered to cost-price or to-be-paid-later-tab, a non-alcoholic punch in case of wandering minors (spike it and Nami will end you) and random snacks.

Oh, and a pool.  Which is heated.  Kind of important, that part.

Step right up, I'm reliably informed we'll have Thor with his shirt off, take pictures while you can.]

Comments

[candothat]

Yes, sensible.

I know a little [a lot] about the subject, if you would ever like to discuss it? [He's trying--and failing--not to sound too eager about the prospect of future conversations on one of his favorite things of all time.]

[watermarks]

[ A little wry twist of her mouth - yup, there she is. Sensible all over. But Pavel seems to be genuinely enthusiastic about this, so she puts a lid on her issues (she's good at that) and smiles more genuinely. ] Honestly, I wouldn't know where to start. Is astronomy something you learned about back home?

[candothat]

[It's okay to have issues, don't put a lid on them! Unless putting a lid in them results in talking about astronomy, in which case...]

It isn't always necessary to know where to start in order to start.

Astronomy was one of the very first things that I learned about. Right after talking. [He smiles like he's exaggerating (he is not).]

[watermarks]

[...no, she's pretty sure you need to know where to start in order to... start. Which is... hmm. Well, anyway, she'd rather not argue hypothetical when there's something more interesting to ask.]

Really? Why is that? Were your parents astronomers?

[candothat]

[Shh. Shh.]

No, not at all. My grandparents had a winter home on the moon, in the Mare Imbrium Colony, and seeing the stars from there made me interested in learning about them. [At the ripe old age of one and a half, when people normally decide what they want to focus on for the rest of their lives.]

Did you experience that at all, when you first saw the stars without a planet's atmosphere in the way? A need to know more about what they are and how they function?

[watermarks]

[...pfff, aww. Cute. She wonders if he and Sokka ever talked about this.]

No, not really. I kind of had other things on my mind when I woke up at the Marsiva. And I can't really say it's occurred to me since.

[candothat]

[Alas, no! The tragedy is real.]

Yes, okay, I suppose that being abducted again was something of a distraction. [A slightly sheepish smile.] And of course there are more interesting things like planets and alien civilizations.

[watermarks]

[ ... ]

I do find those things interesting. But that's no reason to put down your interest. I tend to look for things with - practical application, or something that has a good story or history behind it. But if you want to study the way stars work, Pavel, I think that's beautiful.

[ As long as he's still contributing to their weird community, and was to his weird space future community, studying things with no practical application she can see is perfectly valid. It's like art, but science. ]

[candothat]

[Astronomy is a perfectly practical thing to study! But it isn't the most practical of the many, many things that Pavel has studied, and Katara's so ready to accept his interests as valid that he's disinclined to protest.]

Have you found any of those things that you look for in your time here?

[watermarks]

Ah, no, not really. [ And she's a little embarrassed to admit it. ] I just spar with Nami on Sundays and work in the garden most days and practice at night. And cook for the ship, of course. In Luceti there was a school and a general medical center where we could go for training. Here... I wouldn't even know who to ask, if I wanted to continue practicing becoming a surgeon, or who's interested in training people in what they know. And then it seems like every time we get set into a pattern, we stop off at a new system.

[ ...excuses, mostly. If she really wanted to, she probably could put out a general transmission... it's just... this place seemed so disconnected to her in many ways, and so alien and cold -- tins of meal, shuttling through space. She doesn't really know what to do here. ]