Day 325 [Open]

[daughterofursa]

Who: Zuko, Colin, Ikuri, and anyone else!
Open: Open!
When: Day 325
Where: Around the Bastion, Dragonfield
What: Time for some Talks
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor. Also fury, and not much patience.

It's been a few days since the disaster of Crona's death. Zuko would like to think that that's given her time and distance to process it, but most of her feelings haven't changed much since their return. If anything, she's just forced herself to focus on other things, and avoid dealing with her grief, and her guilt. Not that she's realized it.

It probably doesn't help that she hasn't gotten a decent night's sleep since. But she's used to that, and if she's going to lose sleep, she can at least do it standing guard instead of tossing and turning. She's been taking regular shifts guarding the prisoners, and she's taken to carrying her swords with her within the Bastion, as a precaution not only against escape attempts, but any threat of outside attack as well.


And the swords are also for Colin. Once she's finished a guard shift, she'll be looking for him to take him up on his challenge, and also for Ikuri, for the talk she thinks she's clear-headed enough now to give.


[Later...]
Besides all that, she is still a dragon mom, and that's probably the only thing that's gotten her to settle down at all. Later in the day, she can be found near dragonfield attempting to teach Kizuna how to breathe fire. In addition to a short demonstration, this seems to involve lying down on the ground with the little dragon on her chest so she can feel Zuko's breathing.

So far it doesn't seem to be working, but neither of them appear discouraged. For Kizuna's part, it may be because she doesn't know she's supposed to be breathing fire.

Comments

[daughterofursa]

I was never any good at school either.

... Rob tries a lot of different things, if you want to ask him if you can tag along. He could use someone looking out for him anyway.

[Remaining uninjured has not proven to be one of Rob's talents.]

[bakegarasu]

He showed me how to make potion. I guess I'm okay at that...

[That's not exactly something he can just sit and do all day though.]

[daughterofursa]

He has other projects. I'm not sure what all of them are.

[Rob is a little weird, to be honest, but he does keep himself busy, and if Otoha is looking for a productive hobby that's not killing things, she figures it's a good place to start.]

[bakegarasu]

Maybe I'll ask him the next time I run into him.

[He picks at the grass a little, watching it stain his fingers.]

What did you do at home for fun?

[They're still talking about hobbies, right?]

[daughterofursa]

[Zuko looks a little awkward at that question because the answer is, well--]

Nothing.

[bakegarasu]

Nothing? No hobbies or anything?

[daughterofursa]

No. I never saw it as important to my mission.

[Which is not the point of hobbies but that's how she thought.]

[bakegarasu]

Neither did I.

[Maybe they're not so different.]

[daughterofursa]

It probably wasn't good for me. People need some kind of balance, right?

[bakegarasu]

I guess? I wouldn't really know.

[daughterofursa]

Everyone I talk to seems to think hobbies are important. Like I'll burn myself out if I don't have them.

[bakegarasu]

A lot of the people I knew growing up spent a lot of time gambling or spending time at bars. Neither of those things really interested me, even if I was allowed to join in.

[daughterofursa]

Me either.

[Zuko is staying away from booze, she doesn't want involuntary firebreath again kthx.]

I've taken up swimming. And... playing the tsungi horn, sometimes.

[She feels a little silly saying that, though.]

[bakegarasu]

I can't swim all that well. But maybe some other kind of sport... I don't know.

[daughterofursa]

There's always kuai ball.

[bakegarasu]

... I have no idea what that is.

[daughterofursa]

Aoi calls it volley ball.

[bakegarasu]

Oh. I don't know how to play that...

[daughterofursa]

The rules aren't complicated.

I could teach you.

[bakegarasu]

... If you want to.

[daughterofursa]

Sure. It's good exercise.

[Zuko that's not the point.]

[bakegarasu]

So's running. Maybe I should see if people want to have a race.

[daughterofursa]

Ibuki would probably take you up on that.

[bakegarasu]

I don't think she could beat me.

[daughterofursa]

You could always give her a head start.