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r (keoughr) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2008-11-16 13:42:00

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complete, day 23, giselle, group activity, haruka tenoh, zuko

Day 23 - Ice Skating
Who: Giselle, Alex, Haruka, and Zuko
What: Ice Skating Group Activity
When: Late Afternoon
Where: Lake
Rating: PG, maybe PG-13
Status: Incomplete

Yesterday's experience in the snow had been more fun than she'd expected from the cold white fluff. So, when she woke this morning, her blue eyes twinkled with the ideas that ran about in her head of possibilities for today. But, before se could get anything solidified in her mind, she heard the faint rustling of paper outside her door. The sound was familiar and her mind flashed back to a day about two and a half weeks prior when she'd been forced into an activity. It had been bowling then.

She pulled a silken pink robe onto her form and opened the door to find an envelope had been taped there. She peeled it from the door and shut it again, leaning against it as she opened it and glanced inside to pull out the small sheet of paper. She held it up, reading to herself as her lips moved lightly. Go to the frozen lake. You will be ice skating. This is mandatory. If you do not go a golem will find you and take you there. Do not leave until the activities are finished, or a golem will take you back.

Ice skating? She mused on this, wondering what it could be exactly as she got into the shower and then went to get breakfast. After breakfast she found a book of romantic short stories in the library and took it back to her room to read. She read for the majority of the morning and the time passed quickly. Soon it was time for lunch. She ate lunch and when she discovered she needed to get going, she dressed herself in an outfit similar to the one she'd worn the day before. It was baby blue this time, though.

She trudged through the snow toward the lake. The planet seemed to have replenished the snow over night. She knew that with all the people who had been out in it yesterday, it shouldn't have looked this pristine. It really was breathtaking. She smiled faintly as she came up to the lake. A golem was standing there with four pair of ice skates and a bench had been placed near the edge of the lake. She accepted the pair of skates presented to her, and sat down on the bench to change her shoes. She had no idea how to ice skate, but hopefully those who were going to be doing this with her would be able to show her.

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fire_lord_zuko
2008-11-17 12:09 am UTC (link)

When he woke up, he could smell the hot food that was already waiting for him, and felt his stomach rumble appreciatively. But even before he could roll out of bed, the moments of the previous night came crashing down on him like a tsunami caused by the very water bender that had made last night so difficult. He winced a little as her hateful words still burned into him, about how he'd just been after an easy lay. As he slowly rose, he reached up to his face and touched the scarred skin there, half reminding himself that it was still there. He'd not felt insecure about it in some time, but... Katara had caught him off guard. Maybe he just looked like someone who would do that... Zuko had known what people had thought about him when he was wandering the Earth Kingdom, that he'd been some sort of freak... he'd thought that maybe he'd escaped it... but...

Shaking his head he took a look at the food, but despite the light growl of his stomach he didn't really feel like eating at all. Thinking about it though, Zuko knew well enough from his years of training to know that he couldn't do it on an empty stomach. So in silence the Fire Lord forced down the food that normally would have tasted wonderful, it could have been sand now for all the enjoyment it gave him. Still, his body felt stronger after injesting it, which had been the point. Taking a moment to stretch, he stared across his room. It'd changed, since he'd come back that night with Katara. Gone were the cold walls of the ship, and now he was in the imperial palace. Outside of one of his doors there was a wide open stone terrace on which he could practice his fire bending techniques. It was good, too, because he had no intention of setting a single step outside of his room today. In fact he was half tempted to try to bar the door with something.

As he walked past it though, he noticed the letter down at the ground in front of it. Pausing he picked it up, reading it, and shook his head. Opening the door he crumpled it up and tossed it roughly into the hallway, slamming his door shut once again. Fat chance he was going to some stupid feel good group gathering. It was taking all of his willpower at this point to not go out and try to torch the forests in the hopes that whatever this crazy 'Planet' was would think him not worth the effort to hold on to and just toss him back to his own world. Leave Katara and the Earth bender here to rot, for all he cared. No, that wasn't true, he didn't want to escape and not find a way to get them all back... as a matter of fact...

Zuko frowned as a memory surfaced about why... why he'd been out in the earth kingdom in the first place... with his father. It'd not been for his mother, after all. Gritting his teeth a little, he shook his head and walked away from the door. Yeah, he'd not be leaving this place today.

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