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August Catch-All!
Who: Azula and whoever!
Which: Log + network post + passive dream broadcast
Where: The Wildlands (Plus the network)
What: Uhhhhhh... yeah, she might have turned into a nightmare bird a couple weeks ago and hurt a bunch of people? Toooootally her bad, y'all.
Warnings: She picked up some injuries during the Noctaere fight(s) that are taking some time to heal. Shouldn't be anything too graphic but I will warn for anything gross.
Which: Log + network post + passive dream broadcast
Where: The Wildlands (Plus the network)
What: Uhhhhhh... yeah, she might have turned into a nightmare bird a couple weeks ago and hurt a bunch of people? Toooootally her bad, y'all.
Warnings: She picked up some injuries during the Noctaere fight(s) that are taking some time to heal. Shouldn't be anything too graphic but I will warn for anything gross.
Network Post, backdated to July 28th
[Part of her wants to ask how badly people were hurt, or if anybody was- well. Worse. Another part of her doesn't want to know. So she'll just... leave it at that.]
Sender: Ken Amada
How are you feeling?
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[Yes, that's definitely what he was asking about.]
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How are you emotionally?
[Granted, he wasn't expecting much of anything and she'll brush it off but it was still nice to ask!]
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Sender: Rokurou
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You seem to be alive.
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It'll take more than that take down me, heh. But that means you have a win against me—I'll have to train harder to even the score.
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Action, any time during the first half of August
Camping in the wildlands isn't fun, but it's manageable. She's had survival training, after all. Not using Dreamotion is much more frustrating, especially when she has no food or supplies. She's decent at hunting, but dressing and preparing the meat is another matter entirely. Foraging for food is, likewise, doable but not something in her wheelhouse. And cooking the resulting food is an exercise in frustration.
But she'll survive. And at least it keeps her busy. In all likelihood, you'll find her in a makeshift lean-to shelter made of sticks and leaves, and if she's not preparing food, she's trying to bandage an injury.
Trying, and probably failing.]
Re: Action, any time during the first half of August
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Instead, she sees a massive creature, something she doesn't recognize- but then, that's a lot of the wildlife here. And on its back...
Najaran?
Later. There's a more immediate concern, which is that she appears to be... struggling with the beast she's riding. Azula carefully aims a bolt of blue fire at the creature's leg, trying to knock it out from under her.
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1/2
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When he approaches her he makes an effort to produce some noise as he does so, so she'll not feel like he's sneaking up on her.]
Hello, child, it is good to see you are well again.
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Instead, she sees... him.
Ah. She sinks down onto the rock she's been using for a seat, retrieving the tools she was working with.
Well. The sharp rock and the crudely whittled chunk of wood. It's not exactly sophisticated.]
As I recall, I wasn't the one attacked by a giant monster.
[She says it mildly, but her voice hitches slightly on the last word.]
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He sits down on a nearby rock with a non-commital hum, giving the tools at her disposal a cursory inspection before offering her his knife.]
Here, use this and it will go faster.
[And then with a heavy sigh.]
You're not a monster, child, trust me on that. I've known quite a few of them during my time. [Including the one he saw looking back at him whenever he glanced at a mirror.] I was not hurt during our encounter and I am quite relieved to find I did not manage to cause you any harm either.
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So it was you, wasn't it?
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When she sees her, there's an immediate reaction- gone, it seems, is her usual flawless control of her stress responses, because even she can tell that the tension in her muscles, the hitch of her breathing, and the elevation of her heart rate are betraying her. She struggles to clamp down on them, to force the usual calm and detached persona.]
I had thought it obvious.
[She nearly makes a crack about not being able to see the color of the fire, but somehow the thought just doesn't provoke the same amusement that it normally would.]
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I didn't get much chance to tell... Staying in the air like that.
[ It kept things vague enough that Toph was never 100% certain... though in the aftermath she'd definitely been listening to the gossip. ]
It fought a bit like you... too. But, different.
[ Her foot twists and taps once, a stone cylinder rising from the ground beside Azula. Looks a lot like a seat. She looks serious. ]
So what happened?
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Want any advice? [ He offers, and she can take it or leave it if she doesn't feel like listening. ]
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The unannounced arrival doesn't seem to put her in a good mood, and she eyes him for a moment at the question, but after a moment, she turns back to what she's doing and responds evenly.]
That would depend on what the advice was regarding.
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Advice on how to not poison your own catch. [ Is his answer as he gestures to the tools she's using. ]
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Oh my god I'm sorry for the delay
IT'S FINE I've been slowish the last couple weeks myself.
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Passive Dream, night of the 5th
And... well, she's pretty sure the pale boy with the light hair wasn't there when she was a child. But there he is- Shealtiel, as a boy, on the beach of Ember Island with her and a young, unscarred Zuko.]
Have you learned nothing from your time amongst the mortals? By threatening me, you invite your own doom!
[She knows what comes next, of course, she could never forget that. Zuko throws a tiny streamer of crumpled blue paper at her, and she throws her own red streamer in return- then runs and jumps over Zuko's head, spinning and throwing another streamer at his back. Dutifully, he falls back and delivers his final line.]
Noooo! Curse you, foul dragon!
[It's exactly as it happened so many times when they were younger. The difference, of course, is Shealtiel. Why is he there? It had just been the two of them. Was he playing, too? He didn't have a mask, but neither did the two of them. Who could he even play? Surely not the Dragon Empress, as hilarious as that would be-]
Azula?
[There's a twist of concern in Shealtiel's voice, and he's not looking at her- he's looking past her, out at the water. She and Zuko glance at each other, then look out over the water.
A massive bird made of blue flame is soaring toward them, and as it flies, stormclouds follow it, throwing rapid and impossibly fast bolts of lightning in its wake. She feels a clenching pit in her stomach, and she immediately turns and runs down the beach. The bird turns and follows her, breathing fire that licks at her heels. She tries to run faster, but just winds up stumbling in the sand.]
Leave her alone!
[She wheels around in time to see Zuko jump on the bird's back, straining to grab it around the neck with the too-small arms of a child. He winces his left eye against the fire as his face is pressed against its back. She starts to rush toward him, but Shealtiel grabs her arm and pulls her after him, running along the beach.]
Wait, we have to go back!
[Shealtiel ignores her, clearly running in a blind panic. A burst of blue flame chases them down the beach, and Shealtiel- now an adult again- scoops her up and begins running back up toward the center of the island. She struggles in vain against his arms.]
Stop! Stop, we have to go back! We have to go-
[The dream ends.]
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All of his past attempts have failed, but Shealtiel still takes his pen to the dream journal, his neat handwriting once more trying to reach out to Azula. )
Hey.
( Agh, no, wait, he's tried that before!! Um. )
Weird dream huh?
( NO. He scribbles over that, though it's too late. God why is talking to others so difficult even when he's writing it out? )
I want to ask you something but I really don't want to get ignored again soooo can you maybe tell me you'll reply before I do it?
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Ugh. Ugh. Ridiculous nonsense.
Whatever. It's just a dream. He can... ignore it. Like she is. Everybody wins.]
I've replied to your questions.
[Technically true. Granted, it's usually been terse and evasive, but it has been a reply! Technically!]
What did you want to ask?
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( Huff. Shealtiel hesitates for a moment before writing more, and this time he refuses to scribble anything out or rewrite it, even if he half wants to cringe over some of his lines. )
The carnival is back. I was wondering if you wanted to go with me. You know, like before?
But let's skip any mirror houses this time. We can do the ferris wheel. Maybe some snacks.
( It's dumb, and there's a weird tight feeling in his chest that he's shoving deep down. Guilt crossed with shame, embarrassment... Why can't he just ask this? It's fine to, right? )
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ANOTHER WRAP!