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[gottadealwithit]

 Korra is not exactly what you might call an early riser. This was for a while at odds with her firebending training, because her teachers would insist on starting at sunrise, and this would inevitably lead to a heated argument between master firebender and tired and grouchy Avatar.

But she's done with her firebending training for now, and all she has to get up for is to take Naga out for a run.

So, early in that it's not yet afternoon but not many other definitions, there is a water tribe teenager, riding a polar bear-dog in laps around the lake, her pony tail streaming out behind her in her wake.

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[spiralmovements]

Tenzin makes for an easily distinguishable figure against the backdrop of the Milliways lakeside.

So does a polar bear dog and rider.

He doesn't call out to Korra - the rider it could be, the only polar bear dog he knows - in case of the off-chance it isn't the Avatar.

And besides, she'll circle around the lake eventually - Tenzin finds a bench to wait.

[gottadealwithit]

She does indeed eventually circle around him. And he is indeed an easily distinguishable figure.

About twenty feet away from the bench, she yells "Tenzin!"

And then leaps off Naga's back, landing on the ground at a run towards him.

"Tenzin! Hi!"

[spiralmovements]

"Korra. Hello."

And Tenzin offers a small bow to her, more to prevent her from potentially leaping at him from her run rather than out of requirement.

"I did not know that you came to Milliways as well. And Naga as well."

[gottadealwithit]

Korra was totally going to leap at him and pull him into a hug. And now he's bowed, she's going to have to fumble to a stop and bow in return instead.

Rumbled!

"Oh, I've been coming her for ages. I'm stuck here right now."

Off hand, like it isn't no thang. He door will come back.

"But you! How long have you been coming here?"

[spiralmovements]

"You're stuck here!?"

This is a very big thing, Korra! Tenzin must process this and completely not answer your question!

"We must figure out a way to get you back to the South Pole immediately."

[gottadealwithit]

"It's okay!" Korra holds up her hands hurriedly, in an attempt to bypass any upcoming airbender hurricane.

"It just happens sometimes. My door will come back."

[spiralmovements]

Tenzin looks like he's about to open his mouth to say something else, but thinks again for a second.

"Is this your White Lotus vacation?"

[gottadealwithit]

Korra is definitely still facing him. But her eyes are more concerned with what Naga is doing off at the lake shore.

"Maybe?"

Everyone needs a vacation from the White Lotus, sometimes.

[spiralmovements]

"I'm not sure I approve.

"But at least I know I'm not in a position to approve or not."

[boston_bruiser]

Don't look now, Korra, but there's a SEAL in combat gear and gas mask alongside you using Naga as a pace car.

(Pace polar bear-dog. Whatever.)

He has an equal chance of being heard or seen, what with his long strides or the clank and rattle of gear on his body as he runs.

(And this is totally not going to end up like last time. He's just warming up. For srs.)

[gottadealwithit]

Naga notices him before Korra does, turning her head around while she's running to see that thing in her peripheral vision. Korra turns as well, and grins at him.

They're already going at near top speed. They feel no need to change this for him.

[boston_bruiser]

Believe it or not, Voodoo appreciates that. 'The only easy day was yesterday', after all.

He's just going to come alongside Naga's huge head, reach out, and scratch her behind the ears.

Because she's a good girl.

[gottadealwithit]

She is a good girl.

Naga turns her head slightly into the scratches, and then shakes vigorously. Korra has to hunker down in her fur just to stay on.

[boston_bruiser]

And then, from back pocket (don't ask how) Voodoo produces one mother of a fresh salmon, dangles it in front of Naga's nose long enough for her to get addicted to the smell -

- and then tosses it into the lake in a demented game of fetch.

(TROLOLOLOL.)

[gottadealwithit]

Korra has just enough time to say "hey!" before Naga follows the fish, splashing bodily into the lake.

The splash is enormous. Unnaturally so, in fact. And if a large body of that water hits Voodoo in the face with a large amount of force, it's got nothing to do with Naga.

[boston_bruiser]

Oh, but the way he's lying on the deck, laughing his ass off?

That has everything to do with Korra.

(So the waterbending knocked him on his ass a bit. BFD.)

[gottadealwithit]

Korra and Naga surface after a few seconds. One of them swimming with her front paws, coming to the shore with a salmon in her mouth. The other sits on a swell of water, laughing her own ass off.

"Hello to you, too."

[thenewblack]

Artemis isn't going to try and out run Naga. That for crazy people or people Naga wants to catch and pin.

(Hi there Voodoo!)

She is getting in some light running before lunch in some older clothes that are both bad enough and good enough shape to train in.

[gottadealwithit]

Well, if she's not going to be crazy, Korra's also not going to be crazy. Naga slows to more reasonable human-pace and Korra instead jumps off, landing on the ground at a run. Then she slows down just enough for Artemis to catch up and falls into a run beside her.

"Hi, Artemis!"

[thenewblack]

"Hey! How's it going?"

[gottadealwithit]

"Good!"

She shrugs. "Mostly good. My door left, so I guess I'm stuck here for a while."

[thenewblack]

"Ouch," says Artemis, "I haven't had that happen to me, but I bet it'd make me stir crazy. I've never liked being cooped up."

[gottadealwithit]

"Well, it's either cooped up here or cooped up in the South Pole," Korra says. "At least here there're people my age and I'm not being monitored by the White Lotus every minute."

[thenewblack]

Because Artemis is not Wally, there are no ceiling cat jokes.

"That's something," she admits, "What are you up to? Besides the runs?"

[gottadealwithit]

"Looking after Naga," Korra says, jerking a thumb back to the polar bear-dog bothering fish in the lake. "Visiting a couple of other people's worlds. You don't need a bender for anything, do you?"