rutagraveolens | Melody 1 : Action/Voice [Backdated to the afternoon of Wednesday, 12/4]

[Action around the village]

[With the laws of the land already explained by Katniss and the stores in the village pointed out, Rue sets out to do a bit of exploring and gathering up items. Feeling a bad over borrowing some of Prim's clothes, Rue first heads to the clothing store.

The amount of clothes and the different styles are staggering to a girl used to wearing worn, drab hand-me-downs. She takes her time going through the store, feeling all the different textures, admiring the colors. That everything is free is astounding as well; as Rue puts her selected outfits into a bag, she'll look around warily before carefully leaving the store.

Her next stop is the grocery store and the experience is also as remarkable. The rows and rows of food, it's almost too much to take. A single shelf could last a family in District 11 the whole year. Rue takes her time, reverently going through each aisle. Most of the packaged foods in bright colorful boxes and containers are things she's never seen, though the pictures and some of the names are descriptive enough.

After stocking up on food, Rue takes a final trip to the weapon shop. There she'll take her times looking over small knives and any slings that might be around.]

[Action for House 34]

[Once Rue returns to the house, she dutifully puts all the food away in the kitchen. A few things - some candy, a box of cookies, fresh apples - will be placed on the counter with a note near by ("Thank you. -Rue). From there, Rue begins to explore the wonders of the house.

She's never been in a house so nice. The soft carpet, the drapes on the windows (the windows open and close too!), running water, electricity, Rue takes her time marveling over everything. She'll open every door to peek in side. If it looks like a bedroom, she'll quickly close the door. Everything else is fair game for the curious girl.]

[Voice - early evening]

[The journal is a strange, strange thing. A book that can be written into to communicate with others, it's remarkable. Rue spends some time flipping through the pages and trying to familiarize herself with everything before making her first recording.]

Um, hello? I hope this is recording. To anyone that can hear me, my name is Rue! I just arrived. I'm from Panem, District 11. Katniss says I was here before, though I don't remember any of it, so I'm sorry if we've met before and I don't remember you!

[A brief pause as she tries to figure out what to say.]

Um... what's your favorite thing? It doesn't have to be something here, it can be anything you really like. I like music a lot, singing especially. Does anyone else like music?

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I like being with friends too. [She pauses, thinking briefly on the people left back in District 11.] I like animals, though I've only ridden a horse a few times. Dancing is fun too. What's airbending and meditating?

Well there's plenty of other fun animals to ride, too! I'll show you!

Lots of people from other worlds don't know about bending, but you don't know about meditation either? Well first for bending, it's like a special power some of us have. We can control the elements, and airbending is controlling the air! While meditation, that's an easier thing to do. It's a way to calm and relax yourself to be free from thoughts.

How do you control the air? [How can you control something there's so much of?] Meditation sounds very nice. Is that something anyone can learn?

Well it comes from special movements and concentration. And meditation... that is something anyone can learn! I'd be glad to show you sometime.

I'd like that. Do a lot of people do meditation?

Yeah! Especially where I'm from. All of my people meditated all the time. But a lot of people have trouble focusing, or seeing the point of it.

It sounds nice to me. And I'm really good at focusing too.

Then that's a good start! I can give you lessons any time. But you're new here, right?

Uh-huh! This morning. Katniss found me, though I guess I've been here before.

Yeah... You don't remember, right? That's okay. I don't think I've met you before, but I'm glad to meet you now. But I do know Katniss.

Are you and Katniss friends? [Because a friend of Katniss is a friend of her's.]

Yep! She's a great friend, isn't she?

She really is! She's very friendly and caring, even if she doesn't always look like it.

That's right! She tries to look like she's not, but she really is!

I'm really glad she has more friends here.

Me too! She always seemed like she could use more friends. And... I'm really glad that now she has a friend from home here.

Do you have friends from your home here?

I - I do! [He says with a little less excitement than he usually would. His best friend as well as his next life are both gone now, after all.] A bunch of my friends from home are here, and we have a house together.

That's nice! I'm staying in a house too. It's amazing how everyone can have a house or their own place to stay.

It is pretty neat. I mean, I never thought I'd live in one place for this long. [Aang's used to a nomadic existence. Home was something you carried with you; and though he had quarters at the Southern Air Temple, it wasn't a place he stayed for extended periods of time.]

How long have you been here?

It's been a while. And now it's been...

[He pauses for a moment, as he's just now realizing it himself.]

...almost two years.

That's a very long time.

[Rue's voice grows quiet and reflective.]

Even if you have friends here, it must be hard being away from home. [And even if he has friends here now, that's not to say they haven't come and gone. Like her.]

It is. I'm sorry to tell you that.

[Not the best news for a New Feather. And he's feeling sunken now - he lost Sokka and Korra after all, so there's some raw hurt there.]

But there's still good things here, too. Having any friends here... that helps, a lot.

It's okay. It's okay to be sad and miss people. But there's people here too so we should be happy they're here.

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