applesaucedream | And the Boats Drift On [Open to All]

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The water is calm, and the night sky is filled with stars. The only light is natural: a patchy, bioluminescent glow coming from the water below, and the bright swath of the Milky Way above. It's not much, but it's more than enough to see by.

The dreamers will find themselves sitting in their own little rowboats, each stocked with two oars, a length of rope, some cushions, and a little picnic basket full of snacks. There is no visible shoreline, but it won't take the dreamers long to realize theirs are not the only boats in this shallow sea. Anything stirring in the water, be it fish or paddle, causes phosphorescent plankton to glow a bright blue, so there isn't really anywhere to hide.

Feel free to paddle around and visit the other dreamers, perhaps tying your boats together and sharing your snacks in an impromptu picnic. Or you could go for a swim - the bioluminescence makes it difficult to see the bottom, but it's not too terribly deep, so the risk of drowning is all but nonexistent. ~~This setting, unlike the last one, isn't actively out to kill you.~~ Or you could simply lie back and look at the stars.

[ooc: Same drill as always, folks. All are welcome, regardless of whether or not your character is in the game. Characters may remember or forget dream shenanigans at the player's discretion.]

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She's in a boat.

She's in a boat.

Toph knows this because of the way the floor moves, bobbing gently underneath her, and, as she sits up way too suddenly, something splashes off the side.

She's in a wooden boat in the middle of the water, completely blind, and . . .

Please excuse her while she gets sick over the side.

Aiden is the first to notice the second boat. If it had contained anyone other than a miserable young girl, he might have warned Jodie away… but he has something of an affinity for miserable young girls. The tether hums with something between an 'all clear' and a 'get over here,' and a minute later, Jodie's little rowboat is pulling up alongside Toph's.

"Hey," Jodie says cautiously. She can tell the kid's having a rough time, and she doesn't want to freak her out. "Are you okay?" Obviously she isn't, but at least this will determine if the girl speaks English.

Hold on a minute. Really kind of busy being sick here. Will be getting back to you when she runs out of last night's dinner.

. . . There.

Toph's temporarily going to ignore the fact that her brief incapacitation even happened, rounding on the voice. She fell asleep on a Fire Nation island and woke up in a boat. There are only so many logical conclusions to draw.

"Okay. So you've got two minutes to explain why I'm on a boat."

Granted, this is a bit of an idle threat, considering there's no earth around to be had, but. This girl doesn't know that, and there may be some metal around here yet.

((ooc: Kind of assuming auto translation, if that's okay? If not, feel free to be all confused at her, and I'll adjust!))

(ooc: yeah, that works for me.)

That's a more antagonistic response than Jodie was expecting, but it's also more relatable than she's comfortable admitting. Well, hell. She wouldn't like it if someone witnessed her vomiting over the side of a boat, either, and this girl's just a kid.

Jodie raises her hands, a universal pacifying gesture that she's assuming Toph can see. "I don't know. I just woke up here, too."

Aiden, meanwhile, is having a poke around this girl's boat, examining the contents of her picnic basket to see if anything in there might have set her off. The food looks untouched, though, and he withdraws to hover in the air between the two rowboats.

She can't see the pacifying gesture or the thing poking through her food (and maybe the latter is just as well, because what), and she can't rely her on her usual means for judging truth, but if this girl is Fire Nation, she's not really following the same M.O. There's no reason not to believe her.

So Toph frowns, hands tightening on the sides of the boat. "What's around us? And how big is this thing?"

"This thing" meaning the boat. And if there's any land around here, she'd really like to know.

… Oh. Shit. She's blind. (Though for what it's worth, she wouldn't be able to see Aiden even if she wasn't.) Jodie drops her hands, then raises one so she can scrape it through her hair.

"It's just ocean as far as I can see." And as far as Aiden can scout, but Jodie's not about to mention that little detail. "We're both in rowboats, and neither of them are very big. Yours is…" she tilts her head, considering, "ten feet long, more or less." She also elects not to mention the picnic basket; she doubts the girl's hungry, and it's not as if Aiden saw any dramamine during his little investigation.

"I'm Jodie," she offers. The temptation to ask if this kid came through the rift is pretty strong, but she holds off for the moment.

And the Boats Drift On [Open to All]

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TOPH :D

YES. ^^

STAY FOREVER.

/LURED

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