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What do you guys do when you start to miss home? Or... worry about the people and the responsibilities you left behind, even though everything is supposed to be all right?

[Everyone's in the same situation, so Korra doesn't feel so weird admitting that she's missing home. She's lucky, she realizes, that she has friends that she made both at home and here to keep her company. But still...

It's not home.]

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Punch something. Several times or until it's destroyed, whatever happens first. And then I move on and throw it all to the back until there's something about it that I can actually do. You'll end driving yourself mad and killed otherwise.

I think if I started punching things, I'd set the ship on fire.

[Again. Ha. Haa....]

It's not really anything major. I've been away from home before. But... not really like this.

Can't you just punch things without bending some element? Or bending water instead of fire?

[A sigh.]

I know the feeling. I'm used to not be with the people I have a duty for, but usually it's on my own terms and I'm capable of checking on them with my Cosmo. Can't you just distract yourself with the friends from there that are here?

[He honestly has no idea if that would serve for anything or make matters worse.]

Of course I can. [She says with a small laugh.] It can just be tricky, when you've got so much stuff to think about. Sometimes it just... comes out in other ways.

[Like shooting fire out her knuckles. Pent up stress and not-so-fire resistant surroundings sometimes don't mix well. Fire is a tricky element in that it comes more from within than any of the other three.]

Yeah, I have friends here! And I'm glad that they are here.

[Sigh.]

Some things just happened at home, and... I wish I could see my family.

Then come punch me if you want. Fire and punches never bothered me anyway.

[It's a serious offer as well. Serious and very real, though he doubts many people here would really get it, because apparently offering yourself to help someone release pent up stress is crazy.]

This is just an idea, but what about asking that store clerk? She often has all kinds of rare things, maybe she can get her hands on something magical that would allow you to see them, even if you can't talk to them. Or even just a picture, it's obviously not the same thing but right now you have nothing like that, right?

I guess a spar might do me some good, huh?

[Something... that would let her see them? Something lurches in Korra's chest, at that.]

Yeah... Maybe I'll ask her. I know some people have had things show up in that store from home. So maybe she can do something.

If you want it can be a spar, yes. Or I can just stand there as you swing punches at me, either is fine.

[He also has a lot of stress to release, but he's way too used to keeping it bottled. Even if this world likes to test how much he can hold. And right now, he's focusing on Korra so he doesn't care about his own.]

I'll hope that she can indeed. It's that or you getting sucked by a whirlpool again and if that were to happen it would better not spit you back here again then.

[There is a pause before he hurriedly adds something, fearing that she may take his words in a different way than they were meant.]

Not that I don't want you around or anything, it's just that if you're going to be taken home I think it's better if you're allowed to stay where you belong.

I'll meet you out on the deck a little later, then.

[Korra gives a small laugh at the whirlpool comment.]

Yeah, that would be kinda nice... But I also don't want to leave my friends behind. Or anyone else, for that matter. And don't worry about it, I get what you mean.

Okay.

[He doesn't add "I'll wait" or anything to that because, well, there's not much else he has to do at the moment and he assumes it's implied. He will be at the deck for a long while anyway, whether she comes or not.]

Yeah, I don't think you would like to leave people behind, unfortunately I doubt that chaining all us to each other would work if one was to be sucked by one of those whirlpools. Other than to get us to risk drowning.

[Because most surely those whirlpool things have a way to only suck the person they want or to only make said person disappear.]

...Yeah that just sounds like a terrible idea.

[Actually, didn't Ace do something like that recently? Korra hadn't been around for it, but Asami had said something...]

I'm sure we'll figure something out.

((You cool with handwaving the sparring?))

[He knows Namur went around throwing people overboard, or threatening to, in order to see who floated and who didn't. But he doesn't consider it related.]

Let's just hope that the shards work as it's claimed and that we aren't left with that option as a way to return.

((Totally cool!))

...If this gem doesn't work, I don't even know where to start thinking. Or looking.

((AWESOME it's not for lack of interest I just... have a ton of threads right now, haha))

Even if it doesn't work to get home, the shards' power is obvious. Maybe we could use that to get to Davy Jones and convince him to let us go.

((It's ok! I understand.))

Good point. I wish we knew more about him, because I'd be all for just roughing him up until he let us out.

I'm starting to hope that he is some sort of giant or something, because if not the line to roughing him up until he sends us back is going to be too damned long. If he was a giant and we knocked him down we could all just take a spot and do it all at the same time.

[A small laugh at that.]

We all get to feel better about it at once?

[To be honest, Korra hadn't even been considering that basically everyone else here would want to put a fist in Jones' face, too. She's used to being the only one who's unnecessarily violent... Though, with this, she can't lose sight of the fact that the primary goal is still getting home.]

But hey, I've fought giants. It's not fun.

That depends on what your definition of fun is and the reason you had for fighting them. I've fought gods before and Davy Jones seems to have enough power to rival them at the very least, so even if he was human sized it probably wouldn't be fun for most.

No, when something that big is on the rampage, it's probably not for fun.

[Of course, she already has a giant beast in mind.]

Jones isn't going to be a slouch, no matter how big he turns out to be.

All the better, don't you think? Then we all for sure will get a chance to hurt him one way or the other.

Then again, if he's the one who takes and sends us back home, he could very well just send us back if we tried to attack him.

[Fastest way back home ever.]

[A small snort at that.]

At this point? I'll take it. We haven't even seen his face yet, so I wouldn't even be surprised if he turned out to be a coward.

I don't think anyone would be. I wouldn't mind it for once if it got us back home.

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