( she’s so focused, mako’s words are like a distant echo in the rippled lines of pond water. still, his voice pulls her - it’s not like the spirit world where her spirit is somewhere disconnected from her body, so once she hears him, a second later listens to him, she swims to the surface of consciousness, eyes lazily opening.
look down, he said. so she does.
it’s confusion, first. bending is like breathing for her, instinctive and natural, but this is like - she isn’t doing anything at all. her hands part on the ocean front of the spherical light, cradling the orb tenderly like it’s a delicate, breakable thing. it’s too soft for fire, but too hot for water. too - encapsulated for air, but too floaty and freeing for earth. something new. something different. )
Wha—at is that?!
( kind of - bewildered. what is that. her hands part and a beamed column of light shines up to the sky, bright but not blinding. both their eyes are yellow with illuminated light and - korra, knowing fully well how dangerous the elements are in the hands of people who don’t know how to use them, claps her hands shut to stop the light where it is. )
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look down, he said. so she does.
it’s confusion, first. bending is like breathing for her, instinctive and natural, but this is like - she isn’t doing anything at all. her hands part on the ocean front of the spherical light, cradling the orb tenderly like it’s a delicate, breakable thing. it’s too soft for fire, but too hot for water. too - encapsulated for air, but too floaty and freeing for earth. something new. something different. )
Wha—at is that?!
( kind of - bewildered. what is that. her hands part and a beamed column of light shines up to the sky, bright but not blinding. both their eyes are yellow with illuminated light and - korra, knowing fully well how dangerous the elements are in the hands of people who don’t know how to use them, claps her hands shut to stop the light where it is. )
What was that!