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One more reason to keep on going

Irma was gone. Matt was gone. Just about everyone from their universe seemed to have been podded, and Kaya decided, in the wake of this, that she should still make sure the classrooms were kept clean. The place she was staying, Will's room with all of the gymnastics, had been clean after Kaya ad attempted a fairly rigorous workout. She had made sure that Matt's wares were stocked, the common room swept and cleaned, so that when the other came around, they would have a nice place to sit and talk.

First there was Cornelia's room, with all of its earth nation goodness and flowers, making sure that the architecture was carefully polished and everything watered so nothing was neglected. She couldn't help passing by this room and thinking of Toph.

Then she moved onto Hay Lin's room, which never failed to remind her of Aang with all of its wind implements, very much something an airbender would have loved: she would have to make sure to tell both Aang and Nima about it if they had the chance to visit. It always seemed so big and grand and open to her, as she thought the element air should anyhow.

Tarnee's room, while once making her wary with its affiliation for fire, was gotten over once you stepped inside: it was kept in balance with all of the books and the globes that were a representation of energy everywhere. She always loved coming here to expand her mind a bit, and it was a perfect reflection of an intellectual girl Kaya never had the pleasure of meeting.

And then, of course, there was Irma's room. She knew there was an obvious bias here, stepping into the room that reflected her best, with all of its watery element and the ability to swim in and out of the water that surrounded the room. She was cleaning here a little, and then could not help herself: she discarded her clothing, wrapped only in her underclothes and jumped in, allowing the underwater environment to envelop her. Perhaps her favorite thing about this place was how she could still breathe underwater.

She was so entranced, she did not notice anyone coming in.

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"I wasn't expecting the flowers, I suppose," Kaya said, and really, it was that coupled with being called pretty that had really caught her off guard. "I'm not sick or anything really, I just wasn't expecting it."

That and it had unexpectedly made her happy. She hadn't really been complimented like that since Matt, and, as it was coming from Nokosi, it caused a strange feeling in her.

"You guys!" She said, laughing. "You're embarrassing me! But honestly, I really appreciate it. I love the way you look too Nokosi, when you're talking about the things you've seen. It makes me really understand how much you enjoy being in nature. I envy you for that."

A laugh escaped his lips at her explanation. "I know you are not sick, though that is what I used to associate the look with. As for flowers, they are nice. I can show you many, many kinds. Back in Azeroth I was an herbalist by trade."

Fontaine rolled over with a bit of an effort as if he were regretting moving, but still he walked over to Kaya and lay beside her. The wolf's maw opened wide in a mighty yawn before he placed his furry head against his large paws.

"I thank you for the compliment," he said, taking his spot back in the grass. "Why would you envy doing something when you can do much of the same, yourself? After all, you are blessed by one of the elements of your world."

"Were you? That is pretty amazing. If we ever get the chance to go and find flowers on another world, we should totally do it! I never did get to have much time with them, considering where I lived, but I did get to see quite a few in the Earth Kingdom."

And Kaya had no problem gently petting Fontaine as she continued her conversation with Nokosi: the wolf was definitely comforting, and Zhin pretty much considered Fontaine an equal to Toothless.

"Don't get me wrong, I love waterbending: its freeing and amazing, I can't get enough. But now that we've been on the ship so long, I feel sad I didn't spend more time outside. I miss it: the grass underneath my feet, the way the birds sing. I guess its just the nostalgia talking."

"Indeed--I think I would like to see what potions or elixirs I would be able to make with some of the herbs and such on the planets we might visit."

Fontaine let out an approving 'purr' that sounded much more like a motor running.

"I can understand that feeling well, though even more, being on this ship with no real 'day' or 'night' has managed to wreck havoc on my biological clock. I cannot tell time, all the hours just roll into the next. The words 'a day' have little meaning here..." He actually looked worried, here. It seemed to be something that bothered him constantly.

"Before I was used to sleeping late into the day and doing everything in the evening and late into the morning. It is the one thing about this ship that I absolutely hate."

If he could tell time, he knew there were times were he'd spend days worth of time not sleeping and eventually just fell into an exhausted sleep. On the opposite, there were times where he would sleep hours and hours at a time.

"See, that would be one of the things I'm slightly envious about," Kaya said. "I don't have the head for that sort of thing at all: Katara might have, a little, but that is lost to me. I'd love to see you at work mixing things together."

Kaya smiled at Fontaine and continued petting. He seemed like the perfect companion for someone like Nokosi.

"I'm sorry to hear that. I fee pretty frazzled about it myself sometimes: its why I have a tendency to throw myself into something like training in the first place, because I don't know when else I'm going to have time to do it. I like to swim, have time with my friends, I have to seep, I have to eat, I have to do rounds in the medical bay: it can get pretty frenzied."

And the way Nokosi looked, she really wished there was a way she could help him with his problem. It seemed to genuinely concern him that there was no way for him to resolve his sleeping and working habits.

"How could we accurately start to take record of time anyway?"

"It is a very enjoyable hobby! As far as telling time, though...Splicer told me that I would have to make an 'archaic clock', whatever that is. It makes me wonder, though, if it is not just that timepieces do not work in the Bleed, but only that time is skewed there."

Nokosi spent only a few fleeting moments mulling over the thought before he banished it away. With a yawn mirroring Fontaine's, he stretched his limbs and slowly pushed himself up from the ground.

"Well, perhaps we should go see the rest of the rooms before I decide to take a nap here," he said, reaching a hand down at Kaya to help her up.

Kaya had never thought of that. "That's a pretty creepy thought, but then, I wonder how that affects US. I mean, It feels like a very long time has passed since I've been on the ship, but maybe it really hasn't been that long in terms where someone else might have measured time."

Who knew, really.

Kaya took his hand and brought herself up. "Yes, good idea: I was starting to get pretty tired myself. Let's pop on over to Hay Lin's room."

"Oh well," he said with a shrug. "If we are on this ship so long that I can no longer bear it, I suppose I will have to do something about."

Once he helped her up the elf threw his hands up in a cheer. "Splendid! If they are all like this room then I think I will surely enjoy it."

It took a bit of reluctant effort for Fontaine to get up and on his feet. Once he did, however, he fell in line with the other two.

"Hmm?" That was curious. "What would you do about it? You wouldn't leave, would you?"

Well, if he could others would have done it by now, right?

They moved into the next room, and really, they couldn't have been more different. Hay Lin's room (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v102/elpedrososama/w90-15.jpg)was the opposite of Cornelia's room: it was obvious it was made for those affiliated for air. Kaya stuck her hands out a moment, and she hovered a few feet from the ground.

"This room is just fun, isn't it?"

"Probably. On one of the nicer planets we might happen by. Or an induced sleep. The Night Elven druids used to sleep for years at a time in the Emerald Dream. And how I would greatly enjoy going there, but that is only a realm accessible in Azeroth, and then only by some. I can imagine, though, if it would be something that bothers me down the line, it would have to be unbearable for Fontaine by then."

He took a quick step back in surprise when she floated in the air, head tilted slightly to the left. "A room of the element of air, then? When I first arrived I was in a room like this. It was full of...flying, multi-colored balls. I mistook them for something else and tried to shoot them, though. I do not understand why being bludgeoned with balls is considered 'fun'. But to each his own."

One of the first places he'd traveled to was the theme park in the city with Sasami. How could he have known that being ripped from the ground into the maw of some brightly colored...creature that threw you around was really considered 'fun'. He thought it was some sort of huge slime.

Fontaine was having none of that 'flying' business and backtracked himself to the door to look on with disinterest.

"Oh." Kaya didn't really like the idea of something like this happening, not when she was already getting very much used to Nokosi, even him popping up where she was wouldn't be so bad. "Well, please try not to think about doing something like that unless you really don't like it on the ship, and then just let me know, so I can say my goodbye, ok?"

She tried to sound casual about this, but the idea actually bothered her quite a lot. Why would she want Nokosi to be gone, when they were on their way to become fast friends? The idea was just scary.

That room he was taking about sounded sort of nutty to her though. "I've never heard of a room like that, but this one is nothing like that, as you can see: its just for flying, and from Matt told me, it was suppose to teach you about space and all."

She looked down at Fontaine. "Is he ok?"

"Of course. It is not something that I would simply come to a fast conclusion about."

He believed to some point that Ronnae still needed him; he couldn't just up and abandon her. Not in a situation like this. His own issues regarding that particular word: abandon. If he thought about it in those regards, it made it hard for him to even bother thinking about.

"Space as in...the absence of substance? Or space as in the Great Dark beyond?" He glanced down to Fontaine and then back to Kaya, a slow smile spreading on his lips. "He hates flying, especially when it requires a long distance travel, such as by creature, airship or zepplin."

"I would hope not," Kaya said, looking a little bothered "I've gotten used to you being around, you know. It would be sad if you were to suddenly go when there's so much more we can do with each other."

She thought a moment: it really wasn't her room, after all. "I think they might be talking space as in the absence of substance. Hay Lin herself was able to hover, I think."

Aww, poor Fontaine She gave him a reassuring pat.

Nokosi slowly took in the room as Kaya spoke, eyes darting this way and that. Usually it would be considered empty...devoid of anything remotely interesting but he begged to differ, if only slightly.

The feeling of the wind caressing the room itself gave reason for him to be intrigued in it and he took another step, fully immersing himself in the wide, cloud dotted place.

His face rose to meet hers, the smallest of amused smiles lingering there. "So how is it that we make use of this room then, Kaya?"

Kaya had to admit, in her previous travels, before meeting Aang? She would hardly have cared about this room herself. But after that, and then coming and seeing this room, she imagined how things were, back when all the airbenders were around. She ha to admit she still had to wrap her mind around that, particulalry when it came to Nima.

But once she saw how easily Nokosi was starting to adjust to the place, she gave him a wicked grin, then gave him a quick poke before distancing herself away.

"Try and catch me!" She called.

That tiny smile grew into a toothy--and very confident, grin at the challenging words she called forth. So she wanted to play a game, then? He loved games.

"Are you going to make it difficult for me, Kaya? I hope so," he said, letting the winds dance around his form.

Silver eyes narrowed to slits and he nearly dived into the room, intent on capturing his friend.

Oh, he was confident, that was good! Because she had been in this room several times on her days not training, just to see the best way to move around in it. If she hadn't done that, it would have been a rather pointless game, right?

So even here, she had some good distance away from him, but she could see the excitement in his eyes nonetheless. This was definitely going to be fun!

He allowed the winds to lift him up slightly, looking down at the multi-colored spinning wheels that showed which direction the various breezes went. If it was anything like being a bird--and oh how he wished he could be! He'd have to pay attention to the air currents.

Nokosi wobbled as he attempted to get a feel for it. It was much different from being levitated and just a little bit like riding a wind tunnel conjured by a shaman.

"I assume you will not give me any pointers, will you?" He joked, pointlessly blowing away the violet strands of hair that beat against his face.

With a slight sigh that was all whimsical instead of discontent, he let his body slack to allow the current to take him wherever it wanted. It might take a bit of time but he'd master this sooner than later.

Kaya watched him in earnest. Truthfully, she had spent time in this room the least, so even she had yet to truly get down the air currents to a science. What was good, however, was her intuition: she could "feel" when the air current was going to change.

Much of it was getting the timing down anyway, and so far? Nokosi was doing a pretty good job there. "I hardly know myself, but you;re doing a pretty good job. This has aways been the least predictable room!"

Once he seemed to have found his bearings, his lithe body levitated in the air, and this time he found it easier to balance himself.

Taking a glance at the different spinning contraptions, Nokosi jerked his body upwards to catch a stream of air that sent him gliding across the room. As he neared the wall he bent his legs when his feet made contact with it. Using that as a base he pushed against it and sprang forth, spinning as he went.

"I think you should start attempting to flee, now or the chase will be over far too quickly," he called as he passed by her. Even if he weren't very good with this whole 'flying' thing, he was going to attempt to win. Like always.

Kaya laughed. "Do you really think I'd make it that easy for you, Nokosi? I'm planning to get as much distance from you as possible! You better do your best to catch me! I expect nothing less!"

She knew enough how to adjust her own weight too, after all. With a light push she was soaring, at the mercy of the fans spinning her in an arc, making sure to get as much distance as possible.

"Oh, no. I did not think so. You seem as if you are the competitive type," he said, spinning a few times before coming to a stop. It was nice to just experience this feeling for a moment.

Once that moment was over, however, he began floating from current to current in an attempt to close the distance between them.

And Kaya, who loved seeing Nokosi enjoy the moment, was not lost in his relaxation. She knew enough about the elf that when he was committed to something, he stuck to it wholeheartedly.

Sure enough, he shifted again, and Kaya was soaring some more, anxious to get out of his way.

A toothy grin stretched on his lilac face as he watched her float away. The biggest problem with the plan was that the room was so...well large even if it was an enclosed space. It hardly deterred him, though.

He let his feet scrape against the ground as he descended before planting them firmly then using the momentum of his descent to rocket him through the air like he'd done against the wall. Hair curled around his form as he went higher and higher...

It was then that he tucked his arms next to his side to cut down on wind resistance then glided down in her direction, violet hair twisting furiously in the winds.

Good. He was definitely coming at her, figuring out how to use the currents to his best advantage. She glided almost effortlessly against the wall and, feeling the exchange of air around her, she twirled away from him.

She knew, of course, that part of the reason this was easy for her was the training she had on the ship, specifically in redirecting strength to where it was needed. It was what enabled her to be just out of Nokosi's reach and drift away.

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