markofthewise | Sokka the 68th

[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.]

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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.

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

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

Unless I jinxed it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Huh. They can be accommodating when they want.

Yeah. Though it was weird. One day I'm outside looking up at the building next door and trying to remember if it was always that tall. It just came out of nowhere. Not a single sound. I don't think the people inside even noticed.

Hope no was kicking back on a roof when it happened.

[That does sound really weird. Had to have happened before he showed up, though - far as he can recall, the buildings have always been as tall as they are.]

Sounds kinda like the stuff that just appears when they're doing an experiment. I wonder how much of it is Shifting...

Well, given the lack of, you know, construction crews? Probably most of it.

Maybe.

[Probably. But hi, this is a ninja whose job is to be paranoid. It's bad enough he's discussing this at all on an open journal network.]

Then again, I guess there's no real way of telling. It's not like they're ever gonna explain just how it works to us.

[As far as Sokka is concerned, they aren't discussing anything that will ever be of importance.]

Maybe I'll ask for a guide to Shifting as my reward.

[/snerk]

Lemme know how that goes for you. If they don't hand one over to you in some unbreakable code.

[Huh.]

I knew I should have picked out that book on codebreaking during the summer. I can't believe I picked the complete guide to race horses instead. That one wasn't even useful.

Not even to let you know what a regular horse looks like, huh?

[The animals Katara talks about from her world are so weird.]

I've been in Luceti for nearly two years, Shikamaru. I've figured out what all the so-called regular animals look like.

So-called, huh?

... okay, so maybe not 'so-called'. Just because they happen to be prevalent on almost every single world...

Practically the definition of common and typical, heh.

It's probably not as weird as I think it is, though. I've heard other people talk about mixed-and-matched species like that.

You know, when you put it like that, you're making it sound like someone with no imagination made them up.

Maah... never said that. Just that they're weird.

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