markofthewise | Sokka the 50th

When do we start getting some real snow around here? I've seen a little here and there, but the stuff practically melts by the time it hits the ground! My real birthday is in November, but not, you know, the one it is in Luceti. I won't actually be, you know, seventeen this month. That's not the point. But back home, we have some pretty good blizzards this time of year. I mean, sure, there's snow all the time back home, but November snow is... special? Kind of? I'm just hoping we don't have to wait until December for the real stuff. Sunshine and flowers are great and all, but it's getting kind of old by now, you know?

[Filtered to Poland and Shikamaru]

I have your orders ready. Sorry they're a bit late. But, you know how it is. Throw in some super strength, stupid costumes, and hallucinations and you get a little behind. But they're good to pick up.

[Filtered to Katie]

I finished the sword you wanted. You know, the one you were going to make? But never did? At two in the morning? Yeah, I have it. You should come pick it up.

[Having let everyone know his feelings about the weather, as well as work related updates, Sokka settles into the smithy to get some work done and meet anyone coming to pick up their orders. Afterward, he decides to have some fun in the Battle Dome. He can either be stopped on his way there from the smithy, or someone can meet up with him there.]

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Wh-what? [Verbal backpedaling, now.] I didn't mean that! I just mean that--God, you complicate things most of the time. Besides, I was totally chill with explaining the meaning.

[Never mind that it was far from a literal translation.]

All I'm saying is, you make it sound like everyone should be familiar with Earth stuff just because there's more of you than everyone else.

And all I'm saying is that maybe it sounded like that but it wasn't what I meant.

You know, maybe it would've been more clear if you said it in French. [Now he's just giving her a hard time.]

I would if I could but a pretty much practically flunked French. [And she falls into the hard time trap.]

I guess that leaves you with just Pig Latin. Too bad, huh?

...And English. And the odd piece of ancient Sumarian.

[Whatever those are.] Having to deal with different languages must be annoying.

Luckily, I mostly get to dodge the translation work.

You get to dodge it altogether here. If what I've learned so far is right, we probably shouldn't even understand each other right now.

Maybe everything is ancient Sumerian, for all any of us know.

... or something. [Being from a one language world, this is all really hard to conceptualize.]

Anyway, Sokka. How've you been?

[Not good, but he sums it all up pretty dryly.]

Oh, you know. The usual. Another friend from home is here, after one was just sent home. Katara is back from being kidnapped... the same day someone else was kidnapped. Still haven't killed any vampires. Typical Luceti, right? What about you?

Oh, you know. The usual. Horror-filled.

Oh. So basically the same thing I said, just... shorter.

Remember our little shorter is better conversation over 'cul-de-sac'? Yeah, this is me being shorter and better.

[THE ONE TIME SHE WILL CLAIM SHORTNESS AS BETTERNESS.]

At least it was in a language I understood this time.

I figured I should downgrade to baby steps on the brevity is the soul of wit lesson.

Ah yes, the old lesson of "Less is More", right? On the subject of that, up is also down and blue is thirteen.

What, I've never learned those...

[BLOND MOMENT.]

Oh yes, among other such wise proverbs as "To go forward, you must first go back".

I don't know, Sokka. That sounds more fortune cookie than proverb.

[What do cookies have to do with anything?]

Only because they're so easy to make up.

[Fortunes from fortune cookies only count if you add in bed onto the end of them.]

Well, duh. That's kinda the point of them.

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