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The Sinking Feeling You Get When You Eat Magic Food

Welcome meatship crewmembers to the instrument of pure silly.

It had been a long period of waiting, but a prank was about to be issued after these dire dark times. As such, tables were set up around the WITCH Bus and other locations, unmanned stands where Lemonade and Brownies were available with the compliments of your friendly companions.

Do you dare risk chocolately goodness or sour-sweetness to discover it's dark delicious secrets?

(ooc: tag around, bug others and feel free to continue to madness. IC duration is about a day. Unless you deliberately take more with you. As a reminder, Lemonade brings you up ages to a good looking adultish level. Brownies turn you into kids. GO NUTS. Refer to the ooc post for details and ask questions there.)

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"I'm not...och." Okay, technically he's small(er), but she doesn't have to find it funny. "It's not like I'm still not me, aye? I just look a wee bit younger." Mentally, he's pretty much the same Jamie.

Any grumpiness he's feeling over the issue vanishes along with the imagined Scotland. Instead, he looks about curiously - first at the village, then at the snow cone. He accepts it, but isn't quite sure what to make of of the treat.

"What's that?"

"I can tease you too, can't I?" She said, grinning. "It would be a waste if I didn't while you're like this. Besides, I know. It'd take a lot to make you different, and I don't think de-aging you would make a bit of difference."

Seriously? "It's a snow cone of course. You take a sort of flavoring and pour it compacted ice. I'm usually not one for sweets but it's very good. Have a try!"

Ice cream was rare enough in Jamie's day. Snow cones didn't really exist.

"Oh? Aye, alright." He peers at the treat in his hand for a second longer, then takes a tentative taste. It's not as good as ice cream, but it's got a nice flavor to it, and he looks pleased. "Hey, that's not bad!"

Jamie is happy enough to continue to eat the sweet treat. Not too fast, though - he suspects that, like ice cream, if you eat it too fast you wind up with a headache. While he does, it's back to looking around at the surroundings.

"Is this your home, then?"

"Darn right it isn't!" Katara exclaimed, grinning. "I've always liked these, to be honest. I'm just glad that that you get to experience it!"

She nodded. "It's a lot smaller than what it once was, but it's still a nice, sturdy place. There's a lot of love here, because family meant everything to us, you know?"

"Me too," Jamie admits. "These sensoriums are very useful for things like that, aren't they?" Not that it's new to either of them, but sometimes it just bears saying. Taking a bite from the snow cone, he nods and starts to walk through the village.

"Yes, I know what ye mean," he says after he finishes, not wanting to talk with his mouth full. "Even if ye don't have much, if ye have family, it's something."

He finishes the last little bit of the snow cone and looks at the wrapper with a faint air of surprise. Apparently he likes that more than even he thought. Looking down, however, brings back to mind the predicament they're currently in. He had forgotten about it for a little while.

"So what are ye going to do if this doesn't wear off?"

She nodded. "Honestly, if it wasn't for the Sensoriums, Id be feeling really homesick. I'm sure a lot of other people would have been the same way." She took another bite of the snow cone, waking with Jamie.

She smiled. "We'd been through a lot, and of all the nations, I think the waterbenders are the ones most adaptable to change. I think its why I wasn't completely sad about being on this ship. There's so much to learn from others, and you find new sort of family sometimes."

Well that was quite a question. "I'll have to look into getting new clothes, I guess?"

"Aye," Jamie says thoughtfully, thinking about everyone he's met on the ship, and how some of them have become a sort of family. At her reply to his question, though, he turns slighltly, giving Katara a rather skeptical look.

"That's all ye are worried about, getting new clothes?"

"Of course not," she said, sticking her tongue out and giving him a playful look. "I just wanted to see what small Jamie's face would look like if I said something like that. You were scared for a second, weren't you?"

She laughed lightly. "No, I'd definitely feel pretty bothered. I mean yes, I do want to become an adult soon, but I'm not so anxious to leave the last few years as a kid. It's not like I got to have that many kid moments. I figure that even though I'm stuck on this ship and we have to fight an alien menace, I can still keep that part of me that likes having fun and playing games."

Not that she thought this was permanent, of course.

"No, I was not," Jamie says firmly. "I was just wondering if being older had scrambled your brains or something." His lips press together in a vaguely exasperated way, then he shakes his head and mutters, "Women."

There's a something in his tone that hints at him not being nearly as annoyed as he seems, but he's doing his best to keep it from showing on his face. After all, where's the fun in Katara figuring it out right away?

"Aye, well, I suppose ye have a point. I'd not care to have to go through growing up all over again, though. I wonder if there's a way to find out for sure..."

Katara shook her fist at him, though she secretly couldn't blame him if that had been what she really meant. "My brains are perfectly all right, thank you very much! I had hoped by now you would know me better than that, Jamie McCrimmon!"

She knew he was teasing though, just as he knew her lecture wasn't being all that serious right now. If anything, there was this sort of teasing that had to accompany two friends being put an a strangely awkward situation. Katara wouldn't have admitted it, but the mother in her had missed looking after the kids in her tribe: this was a chance to do that again, for at least a little while.

"I guess we wait a few hours?" Katara said. "That's usually how long these things last, right?"

"Oh, aye, of course," Jamie says dryly. "Perfectly fine."

The teasing is good. It's something familiar - and even though Jamie's accepted that they're indeed stuck like this for now, it's nice to have at least one thing that's "normal".

"I'd not know. I've never had anything like this happen before," he admits. "I guess we'll just have to wait and see." He looks thoughtful for a moment, then says, "I think I may go back to my quarters for a wee bit, though, if ye don't mind."

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