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[bent_the_world]

[Korra looks flushed and disheveled and a bit out of breath when she comes on the network, and there's a fresh bruise on her cheek. She's bundled up and outside somewhere, but despite her appearance she's grinning.]

Hey, so who around here plays hockey? Because this sport is great!

Oh, I'm in Goldenrod by the way. I'll probably be here through winter. I've actually started to miss the snow and cold a little bit.

Plus...Botan's here, so...

But if anybody plays hockey or wants to, you should come play with me. Even my newest little guy is enjoying it! Well...he's enjoying biting the puck anyway...

He really likes to bite things.

[Korra shifts the gear and there, at the edge of the ice, is a Chewtle gnawing enthusiastically on a hockey puck.]

Comments

[sitdownbecider]

It ain't something you hear about every day. What d'you even eat? I can't see how anything can grow when it's that cold.

[bent_the_world]

We were on the coast. There's a ton of stuff to eat in the ocean! Seaweed is just vegetables that grow underwater. Plus there was some wildlife around, and plenty of it in the water.

[sitdownbecider]

Oh right. [She snorts.] I forgot y'all human-folk do that. Eat animals, and all.

[bent_the_world]

Yeah, some of us do. But that's just sort of how it works were I come from. We all kind of rely on each other to survive - all of us, I mean. The animals and humans alike.

But a lot of my family that lives in the city are vegetarians.

[sitdownbecider]

Animals rely on people for survival... and ya'll are eating them.

[Doesn't that sound just a little bit messed up?]

Look, I'm not about to sit here and judge the way humans live their lives. Just do me a favor and keep it to a minimum. Some of them have feelings too.

[bent_the_world]

I mean...they'll eat us, too... It's not like we farm animals or anything, but we hunt the same way polar-bear dogs and tiger-sharks do.

You don't have to tell me, my best friend back home is a polar-bear dog.

[sitdownbecider]

Alright, I've heard of my fair share of crazy animals, but I ain't ever heard of a polar-bear dog.

Are they... big white dogs, maybe?

[bent_the_world]

They're huge white bear dogs. They're more bear than dog, if they were more dog they'd be dog bears.

[sitdownbecider]

...I'm a little surprised by how much sense that made.

[She'd still like to see what these bears look like. It sounds pretty neat.]

But if you're as much a friend of the animals as you say you are, then you're alright in my book.