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Post by nakamura on Jan 26, 2010 4:43:55 GMT -5
Her explanation didn't satisfy him. Her grandmother didn't live here, so she didn't get imprisoned? Why would he get imprisoned anyway? Why hadn't they just ALL disowned him and sent him to the Earth Kingdom? So frustrating.
He had no idea what was going to happen now. He grimaced as she pointed out that he was no longer a man. He glared at her- that was annoying. It wasn't annoying that he was submitted to a woman, or that he no longer had those legal rights- it was that people could look down on him as something less. Now he knew how the women felt. It stunk.
He sighed. "Yeah, well, the family is still there. They disowned me, you see."
He grimaced at her, and said, "Look, they took my male rights, but please just let it rest. It's really annoying." He licked his chapped lips. "I am glad you got me out of there, though."
He continued following her down the canals. "I missed this place so much, but now I can't even live here normally. And I can't leave now. What will I do at your place anyway?" He wasn't sure what he was supposed to do now.
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Post by chinagirl7594 on Jan 28, 2010 19:47:27 GMT -5
Lin shrugged her shoulder a little. "I don't think the punishment really matches the crime in my opinion, but I can't exactly do anything about it, obviously."
She seemed to be straying away from the edge of the water canals and closer to the buildings. Her eyes watched the surface out of their corners with caution. Ice meant slipping, and slipping meant falling into water. Falling into water could mean drowning if she was too stricken with fear and panic to waterbend herself to safety.
"You'll probably be taking on some chores that require the typical male skills," she began. "After all, no offense, even though they've stripped your status, you're still a guy. They can't change that, in my opinion. Unless they do something very irrational, but I won't go into that topic." She paused and snorted a little. "Anyway, you'll be basically taking over any jobs that my idiotic brother left behind when he was dumped in jail. Who knows how long he'll be there? Maybe it'll be a while before they finally decide what to do with him."
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Post by nakamura on Feb 2, 2010 6:03:53 GMT -5
He nodded as she pointed out he'd be there awhile. he agreed. They seldom did a good job of taking care of the domestic prisoners, as they seldom had any. The Northern Water Tribes were not used to such things, so when it had to be done, it was very confusing for them. He sighed, and looked over at Lin. She wasn't annoying, anyway.
He rolled his eyes at her. "What do you mean 'the typical male skills'?" He asked. He wasn't exactly strong or imposing, so he wasn't sure what was going to happen. He thought of one more thing that had been bothering him. "Hey, I can bend again, right? Like, waterbend." He'd not been allowed to all this time he'd been in jail. He missed it, if one can miss anything.
His stomach was also empty; he hadn't eaten lunch yet. But he wasn't going to bother her about it. Not yet, anyway.
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Post by chinagirl7594 on Feb 7, 2010 18:32:46 GMT -5
"I suppose you can," she answered. "You can probably waterbend as much as you want without causing trouble. I'm not entirely sure, though."
Ahead, there was a corner around a building where her intended path led them. Apparently, some of the icy path had collapsed, because she remembered that it was a lot wider than before. It was now narrow so that only one person at a time could move through it. Strangely, no one had bothered yet to fix it. Perhaps it was because people hardly took that route.
However, that was a route that she always took when she wandered away from home. It irritated her that people were so careless. With a sigh, she scouted ahead of Nakamura. She was contemplating just to fix it herself by waterbending a temporary ledge at the edge of the path, but she remembered that she was outdoors. Her bending would not be permitted unless it was for healing. She came to a halt near the bend, still keeping a distance from the waters of the deep canal.
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Post by nakamura on Feb 9, 2010 19:26:16 GMT -5
He saw that Lin had stopped, and he was curious as to why. It was a problem with the bridge, he saw. It had partially collapsed. He was confused as to why. The Northern Water Tribe took great care of its city. Usually, at least- why not now? Perhaps it had just collapsed. But even then, that would be strange. Bridges in the water tribe, even minor ones, almost never collapsed. The ice was strong, frozen... perhaps it had been weakened structurally during the Second Siege, and it had been overlooked? That was the only thing Nakamura could think of.
By this point, they'd been standing there for a few awkward moments of silence. He leaned around Lin- nothing had changed. he made a strange face, looking at Lin in confusion. "Uh... are we just going to stand here, or...? You know, maybe fix it?" He wasn't sure exactly why she was just standing there. Surely she could bend at least a makeshift sort of bridge.
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Post by chinagirl7594 on Feb 9, 2010 21:35:11 GMT -5
A nightmare of a memory flooded into her mind. Lin recalled the cold of the water, shivering at the thought. She was reminded of the icy bites against her skin, her nerves screaming at the pinch of dropping temperature, and feeling herself sinking deeper and deeper. Although it felt like a blur then, it still impacted her in the present.
At Nakamura's inquirement, she nearly shuddered back into reality. Slowly, she nodded. "Erm, yes," she answered, almost in a stutter. "But I don't know if I will get in trouble for bending out in the open if it's not healing." She paused and looked at him. "Could you, perhaps--" Lin stopped herself at the thought that came into her head. Nakamura was now technically the same level as her, and he was probably reduced to only being allowed to heal.
"Nevermind," she muttered. "I doubt you are allowed to either. Even if it's just for fixing something for public use."
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Post by nakamura on Feb 11, 2010 18:11:11 GMT -5
Nakamura listened to her, and suddenly saw the part of her that made her different from Raine, because unlike Raine, she was unwilling to bend on her own in front of people. Apparently, she'd been out of sight enough to not worry about it in the prison, but here it was different. He shrugged, and walked past her, towards the part of the bridge that was down. He looked it over, noticing the problems with it. Easy enough to fix, although Nakamura surely could not make it look pretty. He took a stance.
"I'll take the risk then. I don't really care- I've already been in jail..." He suddenly turned, sticking his tongue out. "They'll probably just blame you..." He turned back round and moved his arms outward, building a bridge between the two out of ice. It was water at first, and he moved it so that it was all together in the shape of a bridge. It was straight, however, not arched. He wasn't sure about the engineering of such a bridge. He then froze it with a flick of his hands, and it was done. He turned back to her, grinning. "That felt good..." He hadn't bent in awhile...
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Post by chinagirl7594 on Feb 17, 2010 20:50:44 GMT -5
Lin glanced around, seeing that no one had caught sight of his action. She let out a small sigh of relief before her eyes finally came back to what Nakamura had created. Of course, it did not look like the greatest bridge she's ever seen, but it was better than nothing.
"Perhaps I won't get any blame if no one saw," she retorted. She slowly approached the newly made ice structure, still inspecting it with her eyes. Hesitantly, she placed one foot against it. Her heel somewhat trembled with the sight of the deep water out of the corner of her eye. She forced her stare forward to avoid letting its presence strike fear into her. With two arms extended out at either side, she advanced. Her legs quivered at the fear of the mere chance of slipping and plunging into the water, and she could feel her heartbeat race at the knowledge that she was surrounded by it. It wasn't that she was afraid of the water itself, but just drowning.
Suddenly, part of the ice gave way beneath her. She tried to move forward quickly to avoid it, but everything began to quickly collapse. With a yelp, flailing her arms, she slipped sideways into the water. As soon as the surface calmed, there was only a stream of bubbles that followed where she sank. She did not emerge.
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Post by nakamura on Feb 18, 2010 8:18:39 GMT -5
Nakamura was amused by how scared she seemed to be of the water- the WATER! He wasn't a great swimmer, certainly not the fastest or the strongest, but he could at least SWIM. At for spirit's sakes, she was a WATERBENDER! Couldn't she at least bend her way out of it if she fell? It wasn't like she was going to anyway.
He noticed that he hadn't put an arch in it, and wondered why the men bothered. Did it just look pretty, or did it actually do something? While he was wondering about this, Lin stumbled as the ice gave way, and fell through. The bridge collapsed and tumbled into the water. Nakamura looked dumbstruck. "Oh..." He said, realizing that the bend must spread the weight... or something. Obviously, it did something that he had not done.
When Lin did not surface, he suddenly remembered her fear of water. "Oh... oh BAD!!" He dove in after her.
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Post by chinagirl7594 on Feb 25, 2010 22:25:55 GMT -5
All sound was closed around her, except for the thundering of her arms flailing at either side of her. It was clouded by the water filling her ears. She kicked wildly, but soon her limbs grew exhausted from fighting the density of the water. Lin attempted to swing her arms in an upward motion in order to bend herself back to the surface, but she felt herself sinking gradually towards the deep bottom of the canal. She panicked.
She felt the chill reach to her bones, making her shiver violently beneath her skin. Her chest began to tighten-- the quick happening of her fall was too fast of an event for her to gather enough breath to hold in reaction. She felt her lungs begin to collapse and her heart pound in alarm. Her nerves screamed at the cold biting against her skin, and her head became dizzy from the rush of adrenaline. Her vision began to blur as she sank, and her body slowly stopped its struggle. A shadow in the water approached her from above.
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Post by nakamura on Mar 2, 2010 17:17:36 GMT -5
As Nakamura broke the surface of the water, still in his parka- it was so HEAVY- he looked down into the clear water, and saw her. But he didn't SEE her. The water. It was so cold, freezing. He nearly had the breath knocked out of him. He struggled to hold it together, and forced himself to swim downward after Lin. Her body was limp, and he wrapped his arm around her waist, and began pulling his arms towards the surface, using what small skill he had in waterbending to force himself upwards faster. When he broke the surface, he pushed her over the edge, up onto the ice, and gasping, pulled himself up after her.
He sat there on his hands and knees for a moment, freezing in the air, and then used his arms to bend the water out of their clothes- they would freeze otherwise. He also had to bend the water out of her throat... He then leaned down to listen to her... she was breathing, so obviously she was just in shock. He sighed, and sat down against the wall. Wow. That was close.
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