Texts From Last Night - Folkmore Edition

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TEXTS FROM LAST NIGHT

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[intemperant]

Yes, that is...odd. At least many of them are some variety of cat.

[she smiles a little]

It can be. May I ask about where you're from?

[maipokerface]

I've seen some rabbits too. They're all pretty strange.

[She doesn't seem too fussed about them though.]

The Fire Nation. I worked in a flower shop my aunt owns. My mother, brother and I live with her.

[intemperant]

Rabbits? Maybe we are in Wonderland?

[though, ran by a red fox instead of a red Queen. it wasn't a perfect metaphor, but it would have to do]

I'm...afraid I don't know where that is.

[maipokerface]

Wonderland?

[That's a new one to Mai. Here she thought the rabbits were weird for the same reason the cats were -- they were just rabbits and cats. No rabroos, no jackalopes, no cat owls.]

I didn't think so. It seems like everyone here is from so different place. Where are you from exactly?

[intemperant]

Ah. A popular children's book featuring a young girl who follows a white rabbit into a land where nothing makes sense.

[she'd read it because it was assigned reading and Arashi almost always did exactly what she was told. the book had made little sense, but she was told that was why it was a classic]

Yes, as impossible as that sounds. I am from Ise, in the Mie Prefecture of Japan.

[maipokerface]

Well that's a good description then. I've not seen any white rabbits but if one pokes they're head out I'm not exactly going to be shocked now.

[She reaches for the wine bottle she already has open, offering to refill Arashi's glass first before she does her own.]

Never heard of it. Do you like living there? I didn't hate my aunt's place but it got pretty boring sometimes.

[intemperant]

As you shouldn't be. If it were me and I spotted him, I'd do everything I could to make sure he was cornered and gave me answers.

[Arashi takes the refill gratefully and takes a sip]

I...I like living there. Not Tokyo. It was far too busy, far too populated. [not a good place for a battle at all, but some things couldn't be helped] What is your aunt's place like?

[maipokerface]

It's one of the smaller towns as far as Fire Nation towns go. The Capital is pretty lively, probably like your Tokyo if you're talking about way too many people.

[Mai leans her head back against the back of the couch she's plopped on. Maybe the wine is mellowing her out but she looks a little wistful at the moment.]

Frankly I wouldn't go back now, too many memories.

[intemperant]

Mie Prefecture was fairly busy, too, but Tokyo itself...was too many. Too many people, too many responsibilities.

[ones she'd shirked in favor of clinging to emotions she couldn't control for a man whose death would be her fault]

...poor memories I take it?

[maipokerface]

Mm, some of them.

[Then with a snort and a big grin she admits:]

Others of them aren't so bad.

[intemperant]

[Arashi nods a little too seriously]

I know how that feels. Tokyo was...too big. Too busy. But there's something about it I'd do anything to protect.

[more accurately, someone]

[maipokerface]

[Mai takes a sip of her wine, considering Arashi's words a moment. Then her grin mulls into this quirked smirk of knowing.]

It's a guy, right?

[She amends herself smoothly after that question.]

Or a girl. Someone special anyhow.

[intemperant]

[Arashi was in the middle of her own sip when Mai guessed correctly and nearly chokes, blushing bright red]

Y--yes. A guy.

[maipokerface]

[After a momentary snort Mai doesn't laugh. She does grin widely but hey, she's not making fun of Arashi anyhow.]

Same here.

[Then she really does laugh as she speaks in a very lackadaisical way.]

Love is terrible. Mostly because it isn't terrible at all.

[intemperant]

[Arashi continues to blush. she's not used to discussing Sorata or her emotions with anyone. even after Yuzuriha tried to bring up how cute Arashi looked when she looked at Sorata, she'd tried to push that down in favor of business]

I see.

[and Arashi's blush fades just a bit. it's rather...nice to know that she's not the only one]

Yes. I--the man I love. Either one of us could die any day and leave the other devastated. What of your love?

[maipokerface]

[Mm, sounded rough. Mai takes another long drink of her wine, leans back in her seat and with a long sigh:]

Aggravating.

[...]

But hot.

[Quite literally, hyuck.]

[intemperant]

[and she takes a long drink of wine. she's not used to discussing Sorata with anyone, not even Yuzuriha when she called Arashi cute as she saw Sorata off--when was it? a week ago? a month? time was so easy to lose track of here]

...I know the feeling.

[Aggravating but hot may as well be part of Sorata's name. he commanded lightning as easily as one born to it. which he had been]

[maipokerface]

[Mai almost winces at that, all sympathetically of course.]

How any human being could be so attractive and so stupid at times but so kind and good just -- it's a mess, right?

[You get it, yeah? That feeling of wanting to choke them and make out with them at the same time?]

I'm probably taking the award for pathetic though considering it's two years later and I'd still sleep with him in a heartbeat.

[intemperant]

Yes. It very much is. I wonder why the monks didn't insist on some measure of common sense.

[she knew that feeling all too well. she'd been at least passably interested in Sorata before he told her of his destiny. so then she tried to stay away, to make him dislike her, all to no avail. and now he knew she loved him and was even more determined to die for her sake.

and at that, Arashi chokes a bit on her wine, blushing bright red] ...yes. [after all, she'd already fallen from grace. what was a little more falling, all things considered?]

[maipokerface]

[Fall from grace. Mai watches her choke for a second time alongside the bright red blush and just gets the biggest smirk of a smile before she leans forward. The pair of them are separated by their seats of course but Mai's like a cat over here with that grin of hers.]

So he wasn't half bad at that, hm?

[intemperant]

[and Arashi is staring fixedly at her wine glass, clutched in a trembling hand. she'd known she was being foolish before, knew that the very same behavior had left her mother pregnant and powerless.

now, like her mother, she was powerless. but apparently not pregnant, which was for the best]

...he was. Quite considerate.

[maipokerface]

[Mai has always been an observant creature. At the fixed stare and the trembling hand she backs off, leaning back against her seat and not making a move to note the other woman's nervous behavior.

They're here to drink and relax after all. Mai's not in the business of harassing people to cause them pain.

She ends up humming gently at that reply before her grin softens and she replies with obvious warm fondness to her words.]

Yeah. So was mine.

[intemperant]

[she'd been foolish in falling for Sorata, especially since he seemed so determined to die for her sake. but slowly, like a stream slowly wearing away at a stone, her defenses had lowered more and more until she had fallen, despite herself.

until he nearly had died protecting her and she couldn't not tell him that she loved him]

I am...glad for you. [and she misses Sorata more than she can say]

[maipokerface]

I'm glad for you too.

[And she means it, honest. Then she sighs.]

Maybe drinking makes me sentimental. Sorry, I don't like to talk this openly at home.

[intemperant]

Thank you.

[she's trying to act normal. but she really had no context for being with people other than the rest of the Dragons of Heaven or Kaede at Ise Shrine]

I think so for myself as well. I...do not let myself speak of this at all back home.