10th ♥ [Audio/Commentlog]

[lightwithin]

Who said something about bass spawning soon?

[Kairi's voice sounds a little distant, and there's the lapping sound of water against a boat's side.]

Does anyone else know about - Oh! - About fishing in the cold? No, come back!

[She doesn't really have hands free to search the journal herself right now.]

It broke my line again.

[Kairi can be found out on the lake, piled under blankets, with a makeshift fishing pole and a bucket full of worms. She's caught a few weedy little things.

She wants to catch a big one!]

Comments

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[morningfeather]

Alright, I'll go dig some up.

[Te Ata tucks her journal under her arm and heads into the boat house. Once she finds some more fishing wire, she's back outside and waits on the shore for Kairi.]

[commentlog]

[lightwithin]

[Rowing in takes Kairi a while. She's not that strong and used to handling smaller boats. Once she's shallow enough, she uses the oar as a pole so she doesn't have to jump out into icy shallows.]

Hello.

[She didn't really introduce herself before.]

I'm Kairi.

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[morningfeather]

[Te Ata smiles and nods at Kairi.]

It's nice to meet you. I'm Te Ata.

[She holds up the bundle of fishing wire she found.]

Now let's see if we can get that line to hold.

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[lightwithin]

Okay.

[She makes room in the boat and watches Te Ata carefully. She'd already figured out that lake fishing wasn't the same as coastal reef fishing, and she didn't have the finer points figured out to catch things easily in winter.

But she was ready to learn!]

[commentlog]

[morningfeather]

[Te Ata climbs into the boat carefully and starts untangling the bundle of wire she has, using her blunt knife to cut a length off before tying it to the line Kairi already has.

She hands it back when she's finished.]

Try this. Hopefully this will work, it usually does for me.

[commentlog]

[lightwithin]

[Kairi examines the knot critically for a moment, skepticism written in the way she bites her lip. But she decides to try it before she says anything.

But first, she takes up an oar.]

The fish are only in the deep water. We'll need to row out.

[commentlog]

[morningfeather]

[Te Ata nods and takes up the other oar.]

Hopefully we can catch something out here.

[commentlog]

[lightwithin]

So,

[Kairi pulls in her oar and takes up the pole again, eyeing the line once more.]

Where did you learn how to fish?

[It didn't matter, it was just smalltalk.]

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[morningfeather]

My parents, mostly. After that, just random people from the village.

[To be honest, they were all kind of weird.]

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[lightwithin]

The village? Your village?

[Well obviously. But what she meant was well... Was Te Ata's world small like her own?]

What was it like?

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[morningfeather]

Hmm, not too different from here, actually. About the same level of technology, though the people in my village were very tight-knit and we all worked together to make sure everyone was taken care of.

[commentlog]

[lightwithin]

[Kairi stared at the water and her slack line for a moment.]

Do you think that would work here?

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[morningfeather]

[Te Ata stared off into the distance for a moment, frowning in thought.]

It might. Most of the people I've met have been nice and seem willing to help when asked.

[commentlog]

[lightwithin]

But... If they could teach more people, then it wouldn't be so hard.

[There would be more people to make clothes or food or catch fish...]

[commentlog]

[morningfeather]

Well, the only way to really know is to just ask. Can't hurt even if no one wants to help.

[There were so few who knew how to do these things, maybe she'd at least find some who would be willing to learn.]