Legends of Sword and Spirit

Korra finds herself smiling sheepishly as he compliments and compliments her. He almost sounds like Bolin.. oh how she missed her buddy. She shrugs absently as she scoops up a long stick and breaks one end off of it. She gingerly picks up one of the cooking fish (kind of bobbling as she makes an ‘ow ow ow’ sound), and she skewers it on the stick. She holds it out and points two fingers at it, and a small burst of flame engulfs the fish as she speaks. “I have friends, sure. They call themselves ‘Team Avatar’” she says with a soft chuckle as she watches the fish she is cooking. “I have so many wonderful friends… but sometimes it feels like they’re my friends cause I’m the Avatar.” She shrugs again as the fire from her fingers stops. The smell of perfectly cooked fish fills their little camp. She holds the done fish on the skewer out to him, motioning him to take it. She scoops up another near stick, and skewers another of the fish on it. She starts to cook it with her free hand, using a small controlled stream of flame.

“Romance… pfft” she sticks her tongue out all brat like with the thought. “I thought there was a boy I liked, but he only had eyes for a rich city girl.” She says as she rolls her eyes. She then sighs at herself and corrects herself. “That’s not fair. I love both of them.. as friends and all. The Fire Ferrets wouldn’t be where we were without her. It just wasn’t in the cards.” She stops the flames from her fingers and starts to take small bites from the fish. It’s actually very good. “And yeah, I learned to hone all my different Bending styles from the greatest Bending teachers in the world. Most of them felt like it was their duty to train me. Water was so easy… so was Earth and Fire. I’ve been told the physical aspects of Bending are what I excel at. And now I’m on Airbending.. and I got nothin.” She says with a sigh. She takes another few nibbles of her fish, and suddenly a straight rock shoots up from the earth behind her. She leans against the new backstop as she eats.

“Tenzin says I haven’t been able to Airbend because I’m not” Now she does her Tenzin impression, sitting up straight and speaking with an exaggerated voice “Spiritually connected to that side of the Avatar as you should be. This is what is holding you back, but we will be patient. And one day, it’ll just click.” She shrugs again as she relaxes once more, eating more of her fish.

She watches him with a small smile as she eats her fish, and she then speaks, kind of with a mouthful of food. “So you just escaped that game thingy, and you were just living your life.. and now you’re here? But with your game thingy skills? Wow.. sounds like some kinda bad fiction or something. I really feel like there’s a reason we’re both here, though. I just got this feelin…” she says as she glances away from him, wishing she had more to go on besides her gut feelings. She feels like if she could achieve her ultimate skills as the Avatar, she’d have an easier time making sense of all this.

He mentions the sunset, and she looks towards it as she smiles a little. “Yeah, real nice.” She watches as the sun droops just along the horizon, now absently playing with what’s left of her fish, picking at it and all.

A small smile forms on Korra’s lips as she watches him eat, as he exclaims how good it is. “Well when you grow up Water Tribe, fish is kind of a staple to your diet. So I’ve learned how to make it pretty good.” She shakes her head to his question about the ‘team’. “Not all of them were Benders, no. Bolin’s an Earthbender, Mako is a Firebender, but Asumi can’t bend. But she uses tech that her father’s company makes.” She smiles a little at the thought, of them going on patrol together. How she and Bolin would argue about who got to sit in the front seat, until Mako put an end to that.

“The Fire Ferrets is my pro Bending team. It’s kind of a sport.. a competition between Benders. An Earth, Fire and Waterbender on each team. And we try to knock each other out. We were actually pretty good.” Those were good times… and now.. here she is. In some world she doesn’t know, or how she got here or why. With some strange man… who’s barely as old as she. Funny how things work…

She doesn’t comment on not being able to Airbend, there’s no real reason to go into it more. The plain, simple truth is that she can’t. There’s nothing more to it than that. She smiles a little as she watches him, as he speaks, her eyes partially closed. She shakes her head a little, speaking in an amused tone. “Are you kidding? Why are you being so down on yourself? You’re an incredible swordsman. I mean how many people did you save back there? You do have those abilities here.. you’re not just some guy. You and me, we were brought here for a reason.” She says with a nod, her ponytails swaying a little.

She keeps her eyes now on the sunset as he moves to sit next to her. She can’t really bring herself to look at him, and she doesn’t know why. But she does smile with his sentiment, speaking softly. “Yeah, we’re not alone at least. And together we’ll figure this thing out..” She then looks to him, a brow perked “So with that thought… why don’t you get some sleep? I’ll take first watch. We can get a bright, early start in the morning and see if we can figure things out.”

Korra leans back against her stone backrest as he speaks, her body relaxing a little. As much as she would allow, which isn't alot. "No no.. it's not cheating if I just stick to Waterbending. They made sure to make that stipulation as soon as they relazed I was the Avatar." She says with a small chuckle, remembering their opponents' outrage with the ruling.

She takes the first watch... and she has to admit to being a little nervous about it. It's really the first time she's been 'on watch'. Like for real. Sure she's kept a guard post during her various stages of training... but she always had the White Lotus to back her up. And she took comfort in that. With this, it's just her. And Naga.

Kirito falls asleep kind of quickly, she notices. Today was a real stressful day, for them both. She gets the impression that maybe she can handle such things better. After all, she's been training literally her whole life for these sort of situations. And he... well he said he played a game for a few years, and then this. So as he sleep, Korra is on her feet alot. She walks the perimeter a few times, keeping her mind on the task at hand. But also thinking about the whole situation.. why they were there, what they were supposed to do next. There's no real plan for this, no scroll she can go to in order to find out what the next step could be. Wait.. scroll... there was a scroll, the one Kirito was given. Maybe it would given them answers...

She is making another pass near the river, the moon reflecting elegantly upon the water surface. And that's when she hears Kirito cry out. Her eyes narrow as she dashes towards the campsite. And as she moves, flames ignite along her hands and arms. She skids to a halt near the campsite (the flames of the fire lean towards her for a moment), and she looks around quickly for danger. She moves into a Firebending defensive stance... a menacing, strong stance... as she speaks. "WhatWhat?!" Naga sits up a little, looking at Kirito worredly.

He offers to take the shift, then. He seemed like he didn't want to talk about what startled him. Probably a bad dream or something. She doesn't badger him to find out what it was... since she's rather tired, actually. She lays down upon the ground, and almost instantly she's asleep. After this long.. long... day, it doesnt take much for her to konk out.

And like Kirito, her sleep isn't so restful. Flash glimpses of creatures... things she doesn't recognize... and people (well they seem to be people) controlling the natural world around them. Flashes of steel.. and dozens of small creatures hiding wherever they could. She often would have strange dreams... and usually that's just what she racks it up to, strange dreams. Having no inkling someone is trying to communicate with her, warn her.

Morning comes, and her eyes flutter open slowly as she lays there on her side. She groans softly as she contnues to lay there a few more minutes, just not wanting to get up. But she eventually does. She sits up there in the dirt (not seeming to mind the dirt really) and looks around.. Kirito and Naga are nowhere to be seen. Well at first. She lifts her head up slightly and sees movement down by the river.. must be them. She smirks a little as she pushes herself to her feet, and lets out a loud groan as she stretches. trying to work each muscle in her body. Trying to get her whole body to wake up. She strides towards the river as she notices something... "Hm?" she leans down and scoops up his sketch pad, and she fasps at the images drawn upon it. "That's impossible.." she says softly. For a moment it occurs to her that this could be some kind of game... that he isn't who he says he is, that he has knowledge of the Avatars. But that thought doesn't last.

Now she sprints down towards the shore, her eyes on the sketching pad. Naga notices her right away of course as she lays upon the shore, and she slowly stands, her long tail wagging happily. Korra skids to a halt near the water's edge and looks towards Kirito. Who.. is naked. She spins around abruptly, feeling her cheeks get warmer. She kind of stammers as she holds the sketch pad over her head, the page facing him as she faces away from him still. "Hey! What the heck are these?! How did you draw these?! How did you know about them?"