Sokka the 68th - [Voice/Action]

[markofthewise]

[This morning, Sokka received a message through his journal. One he hadn't quite been expecting after everything that had happened last week. After pondering over it a bit, he inevitably was drawn to the journals to talk about it.]

You have to give the Malnosso credit. They drop a moon on the village and then they expect us to go show up to work for them like nothing ever happened. And it's... Farm Security. So I don't even get to do anything exciting. I get to a place I've already been, to make sure that 'our' food supplies don't get attacked. Yeah. That's great, "CJ". I'm really appreciating that. [He groans.] Well anyway, looks like I report at nine in the morning tomorrow. Apparently I'll be gone for five days. I'll take my journal, but apparently it won't work while I'm there. Guess I'll find out.

... so, I'm not the only one who signed up, right?

Oh. And Hiccup... keep an eye on the smithy. [Normally he'd ask Winry to do that. But things are a little... different with them lately. So he's not exactly jumping at the chance to go and have a public conversation with her. Or private, really.

For anybody who wants to run into him, Sokka will be doing his normal stuff at the smithy. He's making some preparations for needing to fight, since at this point he has only the Malnosso's word that this is less dangerous than a draft. Even though it's starting to get too cold for it, he'll eat his lunch out in the plaza like he always does. Other than that, he'll be spending his day as normally as he can. Come home for a normal dinner, tell some bad jokes to his housemates, and spend some time with his gal. In the morning, he'll head out.]

Comments

[Voice]

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Glamorous, no. Interesting, yes. This is like being on my second draft again. Only more boring.

[Voice]

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Least it sounds easy enough. [These are the kinds of things he used to do all the time back home, this one in particular.] Unless something shows up. But hey. Then you wouldn't be bored.

[Voice]

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Yes, well, I'm sort of holding out that the General won't decide to stop in personally to buy some chickens.

[Voice]

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Or the cows. [...ah, right.] Speaking of that, I guess I owe you a steak.

[Voice]

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Oh, yeah. You know what, you'll have to save that for next week. I'm pretty sure Katara's got me covered for dinner tonight.

[Voice]

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No rush. [The less work he has to do, the better.]

[Voice]

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Good, good. I like mine medium rare, though. Nice and juicy.

[Voice]

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Should I be writing this down...?

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

If you think you'll forget, you might want to.

[Voice]

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So long as that's it, I got it.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Good. It can be my victory lunch when I get back.

[Voice]

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You got it. Good luck out there, man.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Thanks. Try and make sure Luceti doesn't fall apart while I'm gone. There better not be any moons falling out of the ksy.

[Voice]

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Tch. If there is, I'm going back to bed. I'm good on troublesome encounters for the week.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Well at the risk of letting the Malnosso know how predictable they are, I think you're in the clear. It's New Feather time.

[Voice]

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[It's true. The Malnosso don't seem to bother with experiments when new people are coming in.]

That's something. So long as you didn't jinx it.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

If I did, I should count myself lucky that I'll be gone while you all have to put up with it.

[Voice]

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New Feather season lasts longer than five days, you know.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

Unless I jinxed it.

[Voice]

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Not sure if that'd be a good or a bad thing.

[Voice]

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Counting the number of good things they did last year versus the bad?

[Voice]

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I was thinking more along the lines of what kind of people would show up here if the gates were open 24/7.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

The better question is where we'd put them all.

[Voice]

[endgames]

Jeez. Unless it happens, it's too troublesome to think about.

[Voice]

[markofthewise]

They'd probably just add more buildings. Or more floors. They did it before.