tushanshu | Text; Don't judge.

Those things are pretty important. [How could anyone even forget to- Yeah, she can't dwell on that. Headaches weren't her goal today.] Maybe you should take it easy for a week? Take a change of pace. Like a mini vacation.

[She nods.] Yep, he wanted to know if I needed some assistance with it. I had no idea that he was having a rough time. It was nice of him. Maybe he’s getting over it already? [Yeah, she has no clue how deeply he felt for her.]

I’ll let you have that one. [She admonished with a smirk.] But I’m on to you mister.

Well, since my arrival I have not been doing so much as all that. I AM soon to go to work with Combeferre in his clinic, though I have no idea what I will be doing. It seems...better to stick close to him until I remember everything here I think, though.

As for those things...yes, they tend to be, but I am...often carried away by other matters. I do know how bad for me it IS so...I am attempting to work on that.

[Sure he is. Somebody needs to set an alarm for him or something, seriously.]

Perhaps he is, a bit. He HAS become...more committed lately, to the ideals he had begun to adopt while we were still at home. Perhaps from motivation gained by losing her.

[Does that sound horrible? yes it does, and he has NO idea how horrible it sounds.]

I will admit that is as good a motivation as any if it helps someone else here.

I see I shall have to be more careful in the future then.

There’s a clinic in the Wood Sector then? [The only one Korra knew of was Amon’s in the Earth Sector. It wasn’t something she liked to think about.] It’s good that you have a job though! They can be hard to find for some people.

The sun is the best thing to go by you know. [She can’t help but smile.] When it gets dark, you eat dinner. When it goes down, you sleep. When it rises, you wake up and eat breakfast. And when it’s straight up overhead, have a snack. [Actually whenever it rose, she was usually still asleep.]

Is his motivation a bad thing? [Since she had no idea what was going on for them before they got here, Korra could only guess why it would be.]

I am...actually, unsure of where it is, and yes, I am lucky to have it. I have heard it's not so easy for foreigners these days in the way of work. It was something I have been hoping to look into if possible. I cannot say I blame the keedan but...we did not choose to come here either so it is not as though it can be helped.

And I shall keep that in mind, yes. [Really, he'll try. It's that he gets preoccupied.] I do appreciate the advice.

It is not so bad in and of itself. It makes me glad he is willing to help now, and wishes to. I simply...wish it may have been for reasons other than that. I would not have sought to have something so painful cause his change of heart, as glad as I am to have him. And I am concerned for th lady as well. She should not have needed to be subject to such a thing, even if that IS what was needed for Marius to return to us.

Well maybe they'll get the idea that we're trying to help them as well as ourselves. If not, they'll have to get used to us being here eventually and learn to just deal with it. Seriously, it’s not like they own the turtle or anything.

Give him time, maybe his reasons will change?

I should hope they would. It does not seem to be the intent of anyone to hurt them, no. I understand that they have...much to adjust to, but from what I have been told, foreigners have been here for some time, so there is THAT to think of as well. And true, I believe that domain falls to the Empress.

[Which is ridiculous to Enjolras as it is, and if he looks disgusted as he says it, he cannot really be blamed just now.]

Perhaps they will. I would prefer that he fully understand things first of all, but I think that with the time I can give him, such is possible.

WHAT? [This is news to Korra.] The Empress can't own Tu Vishan! [She's talked to him, he's his own being no matter highly Asti thinks of the Emperor.] That's crazy.

You're a good friend Enjolras. I don't think Marius knows how lucky he is.

Edited (I can type at 1:30am, promise.) 2013-06-22 06:33 (UTC)

Not own, no, and I do not like the idea of a Empress or Emperor or Kings at any rate. Better that the people, all of them, determine their leaders by some means, if they cannot be directly consulted themselves, as the Americans would have it in my time.

[And Enjolras is extremely passionate on this point, though his voice does not really rise or anything along those lines. His eyes seem more alert perhaps, and he sits a little straighter as he stares into the camera.]

Instead of "own" perhaps I ought to say...controls or rules. It seems the more accurate term. I wonder though, truly, how one person may own a piece of any land when it is living, but particularly when it has consciousness as our Tu Vishan does.

[Enjolras would not consider himself so good a friend as that. He is well aware that though he loves his friends, he has his shortcomings, is often too impatient, or dismissive with them, and, upon his death in the last world, he realized that there is much he does not understand or seek to know of their conditions and feelings. Still, he wishes to try to be better for them here, so the words, referring to Marius of all people, whom Enjolras knows least of all, come as an encouragement to him.]

I try now, yes. I have not always been so, but I try.

Americans? [Wasn't that something Aisha mentioned? Korra didn't want to go re-visit that conversation though. Ever.] There's aren't many monarchies left in my world, I can only guess how bad it is on yours.

[The smile she gives is a warm one.] Hey, trying is the most important thing anyone can do. [Advice she should be taking herself.]

America is one of the countries in my world, yes. It was one of the first to declare independence, and to take hold of it. I look to them as an example, as we did during our first revolution so many years ago. I look to their success as proof that France may be free as well.

And to our future I have learned of here, I suppose.

[Enjolras hopes that a republic came in the same France that he is from at least.]

I am told that some time later in our history, sixteen years after our fight was ended that it came but...forgive me. It is still hard to think of such as a part of the world I live in.

[And Enjolras is nodding, affirming what she says, and appreciating this.]

I wonder what may happen when the trying is not enough but otherwise..I think you are right. Do you take that advice often?

Oh. [Independence wasn't a bad thing as far as Korra was concerned. Just as long as it didn't lead to something like the Great War with Fire Nation all those years back.]

The rule was so bad that it caused a revolution? [She hasn't had any good experiences with those so far.]

[She rubs her arm and absent-mindedly flexes her musles as she does so.] There are some things I'm scared to try without someone here to guide me... I should listen to myself before I tell anyone else, huh?

It was. And it caused us, later, to attempt our own, on two occasions. The first time, in 1830, we should have had it, the support was there, the people wished it, but we were given a new king instead of the one who fled at the idea.

[If Enjolras seems angry when he speaks of 1830, well, that certainly was a blow and wrong and all of that. It is to be expected, really.]

The second time, two years later, my friends, some other groups and leaders, mostly students and workers, rose to barricade the streets again, but...the people did not support change, though they'd been crying out for it. Fear, I think, is what held them back. France had certainly not given them reasons to hope as far as their lots went.

[So as far as fear goes, well...]

I suppose that when it comes to fear, one must consider the consequences, weigh them, as Combeferre would have me do more often and decide...is the potential best of outcomes worth what may be lost? If it is, then we find the courage to try it. Somewhere. I am certain you can too.

Maybe it was those actions that caused the events sixteen years later. [All that couldn't have ended in vain, there had to be lasting effects from it.]

Thanks, I hope I am too. I should give it a shot instead of just waiting for the right person to show up. [There was no telling if her master would ever arrive on Tu Vishan.]

I do hope that is the case, that we planted a seed of revolution and it only needed time to grow. There is a certain pride in knowing that it happened, I'll admit.

That is very true. It may be better to at least attempt exploring more. I take it these are very special skills that you must try to use then?

Every action causes a ripple. [She says that with a smile, a nugget of wisdom from her master Katara.]

Yes. They are something I have to be doing, even if it feels like I can't. Not something I can shrug off and ignore. [Something she had considered only in a moment of anger back home.]

So it does. [Enjolras is nodding at that.] That sounds like something Combeferre would say. And it would be correct.

Ah, so practicing these skills is important then? Perhaps you may demonstrate for me if we are somewhere safe that you would do so. I would be interested to see.

Got that one from my favorite teacher. This Combeferre sounds like a pretty smart guy then.

Yeah, they’re kind of what I am. I know a lot of people like to keep their stuff like that a secret, but it’s really common back home. So sure, anytime!

Ah he certainly is.

[And Enjolras's smile is growing fonder by the moment.]

I do think he knows everything there is to be known. Or reasonably at least. And I should like that very much, seeing what you can do.

Everything, huh? [That got a small smirk out of Korra, to her there was no reasonable parameters on those kind of claims. It was all or nothing.]

I could show you now if you wanted, but I’ve heard it’s better to see in person.

Everything about the natural world where we were from at least, and many more things as he finds them. He knows the most then, of anyone I know, that may fit better.

[And Enjolras is ducking his head a little at the smirk, but smiling.] I do admire his desire to know all of that.

And indeed, I can see where that would be. Perhaps we may meet somewhere.

All right. How about you introduce me to this wise Combeferre and I’ll show you some of the bending arts, deal?

This sounds like an excellent plan. [Bending? as in... The mental images Enjolras is getting are particularly amusing at the moment, that's for certain. He will find out soon enough, he supposes.]

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