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[dangerouswind]

[It's another normal(ish) day. Temari hates normal. Normal is boring. Sometime during the early afternoon, she addresses the population at large.]

[Voice | Unfiltered]

What do you people do to keep yourselves occupied around here?

[As for her attempt to find fun, she's making her way toward a fairly empty spot not too far outside of town (despite the cold) -- after a detour to the grocery store. She was going for lunch but she found such a buy there that she couldn't resist.

If anyone asks about her carrying a large bag of nothing but pineapples, they're for target practice.

And, no, she did not take great pleasure in affixing the damn things to those poles she found. And she might even deny making dummies with pineapples for heads for any particular reason. It just seemed right.

And that scary smile when she proceeds to decimate one of those pineapple-headed dummies is just coincidence.

She should do this more often.]

Comments

[markofthewise]

No, flying canoes.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see that. [Pause. Ugh. Idiot. Moving on.]

Aren't they a little... unstable?

[markofthewise]

Please! My canoes? They're as stable as they come! When you're used to fishing on frozen waters in the South Pole, tipping over is not an option.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

It just doesn't seem quite... [She pauses, and Sokka might catch some part of her helpless gesturing.] Canoes just aren't desert fare.

[markofthewise]

[Umm... yeah, you totally lost him there.]

Who said anything about deserts?

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

I did. From a desert, here. Never really had much call to experience canoeing.

[markofthewise]

Oh... I've been in a desert. Pretty overrated, if you ask me. But there's plenty of reason to go canoeing here.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with them. They've a beauty all their own, you know.

...What reasons?

[markofthewise]

It's a faster and easier way to get to the lakes.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

I'll walk.

[markofthewise]

But why? Perfectly good canoes!

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

Canoes tip over!

[markofthewise]

Only if you make it tip over! If you know how to use one, that doesn't happen. Besides, if it does, you just climb back in.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

I'm not getting dumped in the river.

[markofthewise]

What? Scared to get wet?

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

Of course not.

[markofthewise]

Can't swim?

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

That's not relevant.

[As a matter of fact... No. She can't. Not that it matters, of course.]

[markofthewise]

Aha! You can't, can you? Not much chance to learn in the desert, huh?

[Now he knows why she's so UNFAIRLY BIASED against boats.]

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

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There was no point to it.

[markofthewise]

There's a point to it here.

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

[Shut up. He doesn't have a point. At all. Damn it all.]

Not if I never get in a canoe.

[markofthewise]

[Just give in, Temari. You know you want to.]

Don't you want to be able to swim in the ocean when it warms up?

[dangerouswind.livejournal.com]

I think I can manage, when I can walk on the water. [Pause.] What's the point?

[markofthewise]

[There is all kinds of things wrong with this.]

... you can walk on water, but can't swim in it.