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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.]
gottadealwithit: Korra circling a stream of water around herself (animated) ([bending] waterbending)

[personal profile] gottadealwithit 2013-07-25 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Not impossible if you're a waterbender."

To demonstrate, she steps back into a wide stance and swings her arms in graceful, controls arches, and pulls snow together to form another snowman.
srspirate: (wtf)

[personal profile] srspirate 2013-07-26 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
His chest, brimming with pride, deflates at the sight. Mustache drooping, he murmurs to himself in French.

"La vache! How does one so small and ... female control the weather?" he demands, gaze fixed on the new snowman. "What is a 'waterbender'?"
gottadealwithit: Korra circling a stream of water around herself (animated) ([bending] waterbending)

[personal profile] gottadealwithit 2013-07-28 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's not the weather, it's just the water in the snow," Korra replies. She lets the constructed snowman be and bends a pool of liquid water out from the snow, swirling it around her hands with careful, deliberate motions.

"This is waterbending."

The female comment doesn't even deserve an answer.
srspirate: (shocked b&w)

[personal profile] srspirate 2013-07-29 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
He watches the spectacle, agape, his head moving to follow the swirling water. It is dizzying and strange.

"You make snow water, and water snow, by your will alone?" he huffs.
gottadealwithit: Korra in mid-shrug, probably about to give her opinion (explaining)

[personal profile] gottadealwithit 2013-07-29 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
She shrugs, and the water falls back down into the snow.

"By linking my chi with the water. It's called waterbending."
srspirate: (serious looking)

[personal profile] srspirate 2013-07-29 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Excusez-moi? What is qi*?" He is becoming increasingly dubious the more this girl speaks.


*Just using the traditional spelling of "chi" because Porthos is a traditional kind of guy, for srs. Obv.
gottadealwithit: Korra in Water Tribe gear, one eyebrow raised in a 'wtf' look (you what?)

[personal profile] gottadealwithit 2013-07-29 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Korra gives him the kind of look he might give someone who asked what a soul is.

"It's the life energy that flows through the world and through ourselves."

Duh.
srspirate: (may i have this dance?)

[personal profile] srspirate 2013-08-02 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
"I believe you mean wine, infant," he corrects with the utmost gravity.