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二十九
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[After dropping Korra off for her duties at the Welcome Center, Naga is padding her way through the City, heading back to the Beach House. Her jaw is hinged wide open as she pants to try and keep cool, and her hackles are raised.
Something is very wrong with this place. It's not just the climate, which is too hot for an arctic animal like herself. There is something unnatural going on with the environment and the polar bear dog does not like it. There's too little water. The plants are unhappy. The wild animals she snacks on are fewer in number.
Who, what, and wherefore aren't questions she's capable of asking. All she knows, as she stops by the Fountain to lap up some of the water, is that she Does Not Like This.]
[ooc: Care to run into a cranky dehydrated polar bear dog? You've got options!
option a: run into Naga anywhere in the City!
option b: run into Naga and Korra in the evening when Naga picks Korra up again]
[After dropping Korra off for her duties at the Welcome Center, Naga is padding her way through the City, heading back to the Beach House. Her jaw is hinged wide open as she pants to try and keep cool, and her hackles are raised.
Something is very wrong with this place. It's not just the climate, which is too hot for an arctic animal like herself. There is something unnatural going on with the environment and the polar bear dog does not like it. There's too little water. The plants are unhappy. The wild animals she snacks on are fewer in number.
Who, what, and wherefore aren't questions she's capable of asking. All she knows, as she stops by the Fountain to lap up some of the water, is that she Does Not Like This.]
[ooc: Care to run into a cranky dehydrated polar bear dog? You've got options!
option a: run into Naga anywhere in the City!
option b: run into Naga and Korra in the evening when Naga picks Korra up again]
b: evening
Oh, and Korra's there, too.]
Hello to both of you.
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Hey Chekov! What brings you here?
[Naga wags her tail and licks Chekov's cheek in friendly greeting.]
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[He pats Naga, foregoing any hugging. It's too hot for that.]
Naga doesn't like this heat?
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[Korra pats the polar bear dog's neck very briefly.]
I bet you don't like the heat much either.
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[Now that he mentions it, Pavel has to wonder if he can make it snow and if either of the captains would view such a project as a waste of time.]
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b; eveningggggggg, he bumps into Naga first outside of the WC?
\o/
:3
Awkwardly Zuko pats her on the snout while at the same time trying to gently push her face back out of his bubble. ]
Hi back at you. You must be waiting for Korra if you're out here. Right?
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Hey Zuko! What are you doing out here?
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[ Frowns to himself. ]
What about you?
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b) Naga then Korra?~<3
[ There's a draught branching in arid cracks through the City. It's subtle, barely perceptible. But at its heels, a premonition skitters up his spine. He's taken to outfitting hygrometers near the City's lakes, to determine the rise or ebb of the water levels. He's started using less water to dilute coffees and steep teas at the cafe. Obeying the cold jangle of warning that's crawling through his nerves, he's also begun storing water barrels at his Underground safe-house, with the same sense of a rainbow coin tucked away in his wallet for emergencies. Just in case. ]
[ Returning from work, he stops at a sidewalk fruit-stand to buy a red half-moon of watermelon. Settles at a bench near the Welcome Center, and bites into it, the flavor exploding sweet and crunchy between his teeth. The evening rays are slanted and pink, but even at this hour, the air is muggy. The back and chest of 'Li's shirt are dark with sweat, the rustle of the tree-leaves overhead dappling shadows and sunlight across his face. ]
[ Still, he enjoys his snack, along with the scant relief offered by the shade. ]
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When she smells Hei, she stops. Her hackles rise and she bares her teeth. Korra may have made her peace with him -- or something like it, judging by how often she's come home covered in his scent -- but Naga still doesn't trust him.]
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[ Instead, he takes another bite of watermelon, chewing with a determined indifference. But that sentinel part of his mind is scoping the area out, on watch for Korra. If he could, he'd rather avoid her. He's in no mood for company or anything else tonight. Not Korra's fault -- just an offshoot of the Visitor Weekend. He's made an effort, over time, to view her as separate from his memories of Pai. But Pai's unexpected visit has left him at once lonely and disordered. A hundred memories of Heaven's War are gathered all around him now, in the slats of pink and orange light. They settle in dark corners like vultures waiting for carrion. ]
[ It's Pai's unwitting doing. ]
[ Somehow she'd brought all those figments with her, renewed and solidified in every dimension. Just the sight of her had evoked a sickle-sharp mindset Hei had stuffed behind a safety-valve all these years, gathering dust from disuse. Although she's gone, the after-traces linger, like a retinal burn-in from a shockwave of light. He's reluctant to see Korra while he's still trying to blink those blind spots away. Worse, he doesn't want to learn he's suffered a relapse. To discover that, even now, he can't wrench Korra free from the sticky morass of Pai-ness. ]
[ Scat. He doesn't look at Naga. But maybe the Polar-Whatsis will get the message. By the osmosis of mutual irritation. Or something. ]
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Hei is eventually forgotten as Naga and Korra run into friends outside the Welcome Center, and some time passes before they return in his direction.]
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[ But only halfway down the street, he spots Korra and Naga again. ]
[ Oh, great. ]
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b; evening. Naga now, Korra later
So, we meet again.
mwahaha
She bares her teeth, a warning from one predator to another. Don't mess with me.]
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Now who's on top'a the food chain?
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a:run into Naga!
Wow...
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Hi. Hot, huh?
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Having decided that he's not threatening, Naga huffs and resumes drinking from the Fountain. The tilt of her ears indicates that she's still listening.]
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Hot, isn't it? Hey, can you understand me?
[Anything is possible in the City, right?]
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