trans_9 | Finally some roomie tim-whoops.

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Finally some roomie tim-whoops.

It had been an arduous few days. Between the situation with people losing memories and then the people coming back from the Ohm attack, Kaya had been pretty busy. She hadn't even left the med bay, preferring to sleep here instead of back at the Outsider's hotel. She knew she had already missed quite a bit due to this: sessions with Chase, the upkeep of the hotel, and general having fun time, but priorities were priorities. Now that she had some time to herself though, she was hoping to spent some time helping her roommate decorate and at least have some general fun: Alex, after all, had brought all of those interesting black light things, why not put them to good use?

She walked up the stairs of the hotel, making a beeline straight for the hotel suite. It was one of the good things about not having to be alone: it didn't matter that Alex was a boy, at least he was SOMEONE she could talk to on a daily basis. Besides, she had those sliding doors now, so they could respect each others privacy.

But then she reached the room and opened the door, and saw all of his things were gone, specifically the laptop he prized so much, and she knew he had been podded. She closed her eyes a moment, slowly counting to ten, tears springing to her eyes.
Of course.
She took a breath, then wiped her eyes and closed the door, going back down the steps, and quietly closing the door behind her. She wanted to scream, or cry, or throw a fit at least, but none of these things would bring Alex back. So she just wandered the city park for the moment, looking tired.

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"Mean?" He asked, tilting his head slightly to the side. "It is in good fun. And while I have accuracy on my side, she has force! We will see who is able to cause the other to admit defeat first." That was pretty much how every one of their spars went. Her taking the brunt of the damage and him trying to avoid being hit at all.

"Of course I will." He grinned cheerily. "I am glad to see that you are in a happier mood, now."

"I'm sort of anxious to really see Ronnae at work, to be honest," she admitted. "I see a little of it in her training sessions with the Outsiders, but I'd like to see her in a good hand to hand. I'm sure we could learn a lot from each other."

She smiled. "Well, I just needed some time to unwind, to remember the good things I have. There's still a guy waiting for me, and good friends all around me. I should be thankful for that."

"Oh, just ask her, we do it all the time in the city. I can't really say that we're an even match, though. I'm agile but she's fast, strong, can take a lot of damage, can heal fast and...well a lot of things so I'm usually at a really bad disadvantage," he explained with a shrug.

"But I have range on my side and I'm really good at not getting hit so I suppose it's not always going to be a loss. Traps help," Nokosi said, grinning. "She'll always hold back unless you tell her otherwise, though." That was precisely the reason that he always spent three to four days a month either in med bay or stuck in bed, too.

"I've never gotten to train with her one on one," Kaya said. "She'll likely beat me though: I'm fast and strong, but I can't heal myself quickly at all, and unless we're anywhere near water, Ronnae would definitely have the advantage."

She would never let Ronnae hold back though, not if they were fighting. Kaya would allow herself to be injured if need be.

"If you successfully play the keep-away game it is not too difficult to get yourself on near-equal standing." He lifted a finger as he counted off, "Slowing, stunning, snaring, tripping. They all work pretty well on her for the most part."

Nokosi raised his arms above his head in a nimble stretch, not bothering to muffle the purr-like yawn that escaped from his lips.

"But it begs the question. I thought you carried water with you all the time, anyways?"

"I see," Kaya said, keeping that in mind. That might be a tactic that would work with other people, if she correctly applied it to the given situation. She had to keep the teachings of Sheeana in her mind, remember the way the woman was able to keep a constant grove and be all over the place.

She nodded. "I do, but I can only keep so much. My moves are actually at their peak when I have a decent amount of it at my disposal."

"I can understand that. Perhaps you should carry sea sponges instead of flasks. They carry many times their weight in liquid and you would have more to work with," he offered.

Kaya thought a moment. "But wouldn't that be a pain to carry? Having all that water can't make it light. Maybe I should be working out, to carry something like that."

Nokosi scratched his stubbly chin in thought and regarded her with a side-long glance.

"Well yes, water is heavy. I must be under the wrong impressions about your skillset. I thought that you had the power to levitate water? If so, could you not just carry it around that way?"

He could think of a hundred odd and possibly inane ways to put powers like that to use. Not that all of them would shy away from the violent end of things.

"Well yeah, but I have to actually move water, and it does take movement to do it. The whole reason I take it with me in the pouch is so its easier for me to manipulate. If I had to hold it the whole way, it would sorta defeat the purpose."

For Kaya, knowing and caring about your element meant that you didn't always use it for violence, only when you needed to. That was the part where you were able to heal with it: as Katara had taught her, it was important to hold balance between being a fighter and someone that used her ability to heal.

"Are you confusing it with magic?"

"No. Though I have see mages and priests levitate themselves and other objects, I suppose I really did misunderstand how it worked."

He turned on his foot to face her and began walking backwards as they spoke.

"I know nothing of any type of bending so I did not know you had to continuously move to manipulate the water. Most things, magic or not, happen after you have completed the motion for it. I simply assumed it was the same."

"It's all right, it actually is a common misconception. With any bending you do in my world, its not just the material itself moving, its you. You play an active part in making sure the element moves a certain way, which is why I never like to really say I control the element. Its more like your body and the element are in harmony."

Not that Kaya would trade what she could do for anything, no matter what new ways she learned to fight. Still, she was sure it would make things easier.

"Maybe I can learn to do that someday, but for now, this works for me."

"It must be both harrowing and exciting at the same time when you are in battle, with so much motion involved. There is always the chance that you might be interrupted in your motion. I wonder though..."

He tilted his head to the side, an eyebrow quirked in thought. "If you do get interrupted by say...a punch, or hit...or anything. Do you have to start from the beginning again, or could you pick up where you left off?"

Kaya gave him an excited grin. "Well you have to be quick, don't you? As it so happens, I happen to be just that, and even more so after my training here on the ship. So taking a knock down wouldn't affect me as badly."

Yes, she definitely had the Bene Gesserit order to thank for her increase in speed: it made her bending so much more powerful.

"This is very true."

He leaned forward to inspect her closely, sniffing twice as he did. "What type of training do you usually undergo?

"The usual kind of training was shifting stances, practicing my flexibility. Waterbenders tend to move in a kind of dance, and it requires you to be pretty fit for battle. It's why it takes an exceptional bender to actually catch us unawares. But I've also learned other abilities with my flexibility that has made me faster and stronger too. 'm twice as fast as your average bender now."

Dance? Well he couldn't do it himself, but the folk dancing accompanying stories were always pretty exciting! In those regards it was kind of a shame that elves had an undying hatred for Trolls.

"...Can you show me? I would like to see this!"

"Sure!" Kaya said. They WERE near water in the City Park after all, so it wasn't as if they would be running out of water anytime soon.

So she started by streaming a simple water wave, just passing it a little bit around her body, as if she had a sort of fabric, passing it through her hands and around her nimbly. Gradually though, the water started to get bigger, and Kaya started to increase her speed, her moves getting more elaborate. She would admit that part of this was her Bene Gesserit training: her movements were quicker, and she could shift over and around the water as if it were thin clothing.

But when the water she gathered turned into a pool of water that she froze over in an instant, there was nothing here but her waterbending at work, the scrolls, the study, and the innovativeness of the teacher everyone had thought she was only a few months ago.

"You can freeze the water, too? You are very good at that," he said excitedly.

The elf reached a tentative hand forward to touch the frozen pool of water, smiling faintly at the coolness that tingled against his uncovered fingers.

"When mages channel their frost-based spells they already shoot out like a beam of ice. Or a really, really hard burst of slush."

"I can change it from solid to liquid to gas at any point," Kaya said, hoping it didn't sound like she was boasting. "As long as it has water, whatever it is, I can use it. The only real limitation is moving the water in human bodies: I actually need the full moon for that."

She made a face. "Slush? Why would you want to make slush?"

"To slow people. It does not have the striking force of ice but the burst does do a lot to make them very sluggish for a few, valuable seconds."

Nokosi tilted his head to the side curiously at her words, a hundred questions on the tip of his tongue.

"What is the limitation to how much water, ice or gas you can control at one time?"

She guess she COULD do that, but if she wanted to slow people down why not make the ground below them icy so they wouldn't be able to get to her in the first place? It seemed a little more effective, and used up less resources, in her opinion. Then again, her bending wasn't magic, so she had to worry about that kind of thing.

"The limitation?" That was a good question. "I guess it depends, really, I can usually handle pretty big amounts at a time. I guess I couldn't, I don't know, make a full on storm or something like that, but I could control how hard a lot of the rain would fall."

"Weather control to some extent? So you could just take a lake and make a huge tidal wave?" He said, raising his arms in example. "Oh, or fish really easily by using the water to trap them and catch them? Does that mean you can walk on water?"

The elf paused in his flurry of questions, a toothy smile pulling on his mouth that showed off his sharp canines. "You can make snow, too?"

Kaya laughed. "Actually, yes, I ca do all of those things. Granted, I've never tried just a lake to make a tidal wave, and I've really more ridden water, but yes, I can do all of those things!"

Snow. She thought about a moment. "That might actually take a little longer. It's actually easier to turn it into ice for some reason."

"We must go fishing the next time we are on shore leave! Provided...the planet actually has some sort of flora and fauna," he said with annoyance.

"Your skills are very varied, Kaya. I am throughly impressed."

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