trans_9 | Morning Meditation

The next morning, Katara woke up with a slight headache. It could have been worse, she knew it, but she knew what would help: a morning bath. She got up slowly, petting a sleeping Zhin before walking over toward the baths, a towel in hand. She made a bee line toward the co-ed baths, taking a quick dive deep in the water, and cleaning thoroughly. It was early enough that she thought she wouldn't bother anyone, and after a wash she went straight to the hot springs, towel wrapped around her chest and down to her knees.

She settled down, breathing deeply, closing her eyes a moment. After everything, it was good to just sit, relax, take everything in. There was still so much uncertainty, and there was definitely some pain, but she needed to stay focused, needed to be what was needed, especially now. How was Billy doing, was Matt recovering from his foray with darkness? There was still so much going on, and she needed to keep focused on training and the next step with the Outsiders.

She sat quietly, breathing in, breathing out. She couldn't be overwhelmed or things would be worse. There were reasons, after all, she still kept her head high: there was still so many things to do.

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Asking her why she blushes so much is a sure fire way of making her blush more, and thus, you did! "I... we-well... N-not really! It's r-really just me... J-just I ... ummm I get embarrassed easily! And I d-don't know I just do I guess. It's kind of hard to explain..." She looked down embarrassed.

Katara looked a little surprised. "Oh, my apologies then! I thought it just might be something that is in your race. I mean, I do it too, but its mostly when I'm around Aang and he starts to make me feel...well, different, you know?"

If Overlord Zetta was here, he'd be laughing at her.

She shook her head hurriedly, still embarrassed. "N-no not at all. Actually it's sort of made fun of I guess? From both my heritages. Orcs are proud, and fierce, they don't have time to feel embarrassed. At least the majority anyways. And Sin'dorei are too proud and majestic to blush, they should be the ones making anyone else blush. Again that's the majority." She looks a bit flustered at her embarrassment.

Katara looked at Ronnae a moment. "Well, in a way, you sort of are the best of both worlds. If Orcs have no time to be embarrassed, it means being proud is only one way of looking at things. As for the other side, well, what's so great about being majestic? It only sounds like you look down on people. If anything, you're nothing like that: you're considerate of others and you take the time to get to know them."

She winked. "Although, if I were you, I'd try realizing on my own that you're capable of making others blush too."

She smiled, albeit in a bittersweet sort of way. I'm nothing like that. Not now, not ever... "Th-thanks..." She wanted to avoid further probing of how great she was or wasn't. So, quick change of subject? Go! "So when are the Outsiders gonna become active? I mean like getting more known and done around the ship?"

Katara's look changed: while shed been casual before, she had a set look in her eyes. "As soon as I can," she said. "I just have to confer with Beastboy a little and we can start our training. Afterward, well, I'll leave that to Beastboy, he has better party ideas than I do. After, I'm going to start taking to people who will help us train. Kang, Matt, and Billy would probably be the best people to go to in that department. The only real tricky things are missions."

She nodded, and was relieved inside that the change of subject took the spotlight off her. "Sounds like you've given it much thought. And that's really good! Specially as a leader. If you need any help, you can count on me." She gave her a reassuring smile.

"Well," Katara said, "In all honesty, I could use someone as a sort of secretary. I wouldn't ask it of you if you're too busy though: you probably have so much to do in Engineering, don't you?"

It would be great to have someone keeping track of everyone and who should see whom at which convenient time.

Ronnae looked up for a moment, thinking whether she'd be up to it or not. "Sounds simple enough. I don't think it'd be too hard to do that." She turned back to her and smiled.

"If you can, that would be great!" Katara said, grinning. "It just requires having all of the information at hand, really. Members, training sessions, who we have to speak to, things like that."

"Hm, maybe we could keep a record of it on the Omnicomm?" She asked curiously.

"Well, that might be way that would work. One of the bigger problems is just making sure everyone who's in the Outsiders knows what we're up to. There are some members one meeting, some missing the next. I mean, that's no big deal, I guess, but I just want to get a figure on how many people will be on the team, in case I need to tell the powers at be what to expect. And when it comes to training, know who's going for what."

Ronnae looked up for a moment in thought before smiling back down at her. "A guild!" She said simply, albeit a bit excited. "Back home we used to organize platoons at time in guilds. Sort of an off turn hierarchy was used to maintain things more organized. Maybe the Outsiders can be like that. You can separate ranks according to participation and availability. There'd be the leaders, then the officers - people who'd be available at any time or teachers, Veterans which would be the more active members, then members who attend some meetings and can tell newer members how things work and such, and then newcomers which is self explanatory."

Katara thought a moment. "That an interesting idea, but it might not be the easiest things for them to get used to. But I like it in some ways. Id love to run it by Beastboy and see what he thinks about it too. I never thought of trying something like that. Would you mind talking about it of we had a meeting?"

Now this she knew she was asking a lot for, considering how shy Ronnae was, but she still thought it might make sense from someone who knew more about what she was proposing.

"I... I can try... I won't promise anything in case I can't... I'm sorry." She hung her head a bit pained.

Katara offered a reassuring smile and put her hands on her friend's shoulder. "Well, one step at a time. If you really can't explain it, I'll just have to learn myself. But I'll definitely have to run it by Beastboy, and then to the others."

Ronnae nodded silently, but returned an appreciative smile. "Th-thanks."

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