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herr_bookman ([personal profile] herr_bookman) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2013-07-18 12:04 pm

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The sun silently beats down on the grounds, waves of heat radiating off of everything. But then, a soft rumble begins. It grows louder and louder, starting in the mountains and crashing down down down until a great roaring avalanche of snow arrives...

The calm returns but the blistering heat is gone. "How's that, Autor?" Mia asks.

The boy smiles shyly at her, his warm, knitted scarf demonstrating a clear gradient of skill from raw novice to advanced beginner. "It's lovely," he says, squeezing her fingers in his gloved ones. "Thank you, Mia." Releasing them, he turns and places a hand on his hip to watch the next step.

At the mouth of the inlet a narrow cliff juts out into the water, covered by a thin layer of soil to which a mat of short grass is clinging, littered with demon bunny droppings. On this ledge, Korra stands, her feet planted firmly against the ground. Starting with that wide stance, Korra moves a foot and then pushes her arms in front and up, causing the lake bed to shift, and the waters to part as a narrow ledge of earth divides a smaller pond away from the larger lake.

Turning into the inlet, she leaps onto the surface and slides out into the center on a shelf of ice that stretches out in larger and larger crystals as it thickens beneath her. In the center of what will be the ice rink, Korra stops, and takes one calm, centering breath.

And then with her eyes closed she moves again, this time much more fluid in her motions, turning a slow circle on the ice with her arms in front of her, swaying as her weight shifts from foot to foot. A bubble of water rises in front of her, and as she pushes out, the bubble expands, passing through Korra so she's standing in the center of an ever expanding air filled bubble of water, stretching further and further out so by the time it hits the shore any onlookers will feel the cool sensation of water vapor from a fountain. She shifts her movement again, and the snowflake patterns of ice crystals appear at the top and the spread around the bubble, crystallizing and solidifying in a lattice of clear ice.

Then Korra opens her eyes, and finishes the rink as she slides back to the shore. There, a further turn and a sweeping gesture towards one side shatters a large hole in the side, perfect for a double door.

"Neat trick, Avatar," Autor says, accompanied by a saucy grin and an informal salute. With a few simple words, Mia sets a flurry fluttering down in the dome.


Once the rink is complete, the boy heads off to help an industrious ten-year-old set up the food and drinks table. There are some things too heavy for Rae to lift.

[Credit to the respective muns for their pups' part in the EP! Standard party post rules apply, all tags welcome.]
sunbaked_baker: (young smiling)

Re: Food!

[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-07-20 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Nice to meet you, Steve!" Sunshine grins. "It was my friend's idea, but I reminded him we should probably provide food and drink, too, if it's going to be a party."
thebesteverseen: (Can be easy going)

Re: Food!

[personal profile] thebesteverseen 2013-07-20 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Christmas in July?" He gives it a clipped nod, looking around. "Seems to have worked out."
sunbaked_baker: (young)

Re: Food!

[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-07-20 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"No... it's just a party," she says, the phrase he used striking her as weird. "Ice skating because they can."
thebesteverseen: (Washed Out White 2 (Outdoors))

Re: Food!

[personal profile] thebesteverseen 2013-07-20 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Same difference to him. "This happen every year?"

He doubts it, even asking. Since no one mentioned this about the place.
sunbaked_baker: (young)

Re: Food!

[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-07-20 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Christmas is not a widely-celebrated holiday in Rae's world, where religions are not a big part of the social makeup.

"I dunno," Rae replies, shrugging. "It was just something Autor thought up, I thought."
thebesteverseen: ([Five-0] Waiting While Danny Talks)

Re: Food!

[personal profile] thebesteverseen 2013-07-20 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dont't think I've met him yet. I'll keep an eye out."
sunbaked_baker: (young)

Re: Food!

[personal profile] sunbaked_baker 2013-07-20 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Autor's nice," she asserts. "He's a boy with dark hair glasses, in a blue jacket and white pants. You might see him around here somewhere..."

Though Rae doesn't currently see him. Perhaps he's off learning how to skate.