Denial? Just a little bit.

[kaya_waterwave]

Who: Kaya, open to all.
Where: Sensoriums
Summary: Ed not remembering her is sort of the last straw, so she's getting her aggressions out.
Warnings: Um. Are there any? TBA, I guess?



But so much for that now. Right now Kaya, who had had a pretty bad last few months, found the last straw was bringing Ed back and having him not even recognizer her had been the last straw. Now she was just standing here, around a background of water and streams, and she was moving in a combination.

First there was her own bending. Smooth, flowing each movement into the other, legs supporting the base as arms and shoulders tensed and drew forward, calling the water up and around her, making waves into developed whips, turning that into solid substances and back again.

And then, when the Bene Gesserit came into play, that slowed but accurate action became quick, deliberate fast. Her body become a putty oin increments as she geared for offensive kicks and movement, pushing her body to the limits here. There was no turning back, no moment of reflection.

At this moment, Kaya wondered what would become of her training, if they would form a base of strength and bending even she didn't fully understand yet. She would put aside those feelings of helplessness, of pain she could not do more.

Comments

[anwei]

"The truth is here, somewhere. Buried, obscured, hidden under layers and layers of diversion and time and forgotten memories. We need to put on our helmets and mine it out, a little ore here and a little ore there; refine it, make it whole, and use that as our weapon. Truth is the weapon that can be used again and again and never lose its bluntness."

There were a number of candidates who could stand a little session with the weapon of truth. That Daligig who had tried to flay Howard alive, for one.

She could see that; fire seemed to make a more photogenic weapon than water. "What made the waterbenders change? War?"

[kaya_waterwave]

It was a good analogy, one that Kaya was sure that even she would not have been capable of refuting. But she had a point too: if they expected to find out anything that was happening in this place, they were really going to have to look at the nooks an crannies and start to break more rules.

"I agree with you there. If we can pool together our resources, I'm sure that we'll be able to get to what's behind everything on the ship, an then we can really start to trust Stacy."

She hoped.

"Yes, war," she said sadly. "While our sister tribe in the South were raided and depleted, we in the North were able to successfully defend ourselves due to the terrain. It also meant we were isolated from all the other nations, and there were some pretty archaic traditions my people still held true to."

[anwei]

A sad glance at that. "Even Stacy may not know everything that we need to know. What could be easier than to delete information from her mind, or partition it away? But there are other sources of information, outside the ship, that we should find a way to contact."

Surely they were famous; couldn't they find a way to trade on that fame?

"I can see how that would happen. My people are also isolated, but that is because they have raised their hands in war and conquest against so many other peoples that no one will trust them."

[kaya_waterwave]

"That's the kind of thing I have to leave to you guys," Kaya admitted. "Like I said I know very little about how we would be able to help Stacy regain all of the things that she lost. But if you're right, and there are other ways we can help her, then we should do it."

Famous. Kaya still had no real understanding about how that worked. Maybe one day she would realize what was involved in something like this.

She shook her head sadly. "That is a shame. Let's hope we don't have such resistant allies when it comes to what we're preparing to do."