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[anatural]

Reading IS boring.

[candothat]

Not if you do it correctly.

Does anyone else visit you? [Like Hei.]

[anatural]

Pretty much everyone I know lives with me. [aka no, Hei has been making himself scarce recently.]

[candothat]

Everyone? You haven't even seen mutual acquaintances of ours?

[anatural]

Why? [She feels like she's being interrogated.]

[candothat]

No reason. [Oh yes, reason.] I will see you soon?

[anatural]

I'll be here. [Mr. Sneaky McJudgerson.]

voice

[flammiferous]

Hey, Korra. I was wondering if we could go over something together. It's not about us.

voice

[anatural]

[He says it's not about them, but she can't help feeling a little nervous.]

Sure. [Why isn't he just knocking on her door?] What's wrong?

voice

[flammiferous]

[He sends her a file, but it takes a couple of tries.]

Dammit...

Okay...

Wait, hold on.

There. Did you get it? I want to go over it. I'm coming over.

[He can read enough to sift through the contents of a newspaper, but this document has big words and it seems important and Asami isn't around to tell him what the technical details mean, so. Korra. Here's a job you don't need a leg for.]

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[anatural]

[....CRAI WHY IS HE ASKING HER TO READ? I mean, sure, she's more literate than he is. She wasn't given much choice in the matter. But the ancient spiritual texts she had been forced to pour over are very, very different from the scientific jargon Chekov uses.

Still, she does her best to get through it, wondering what exactly he wants to talk about.]

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[flammiferous]

[KNOCK KNOOOOOOCK. Mako shifts his weight outside her door. Normally he'd barge in, but. But this is a girl.]

Can I come in?

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[anatural]

Yeah sure. [She's hunched over her device, carefully pouring over each character in Chekov's little article thing. She can already feel a headache building up behind her eyes.]

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[flammiferous]

[Creeeeak goes the door, and through it comes a tank topped Mako glistening with sweat and salty ocean water. His clean trousers are rolled up to give his previously sanded calves some air to breathe. He quickly, perhaps out of bundled nerves, brushes fingertips through his morning beach hair as he approaches.

Oh, and it looks like the sun has kissed his skin.]

Did you read it?

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[anatural]

[..........DAMN BOY YOU LOOK FINE. Korra doesn't blush like she might have once, but once she looks up at him, it's hard to bring her attention back to the far-less-attractive words on her device.]

Yeah. [So she tosses it aside and looks at him.] What do you want to talk about?

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[flammiferous]

Well, we should probably go over it from the beginning and make sure we understand what it all means.

[To be vague about it. He takes a seat beside her and opens up the file.]

You start.

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[anatural]

Why? Pretty sure it's all just the same stuff we told you about when you first got here.

[Sure, there were a few parts that went over her head, but she doesn't think there's anything new there.]

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[flammiferous]

No, it's not.

[He just knows. His pointer finger locates the first paragraph and he mumbles the words under his breath. The progression is a little slower than the typical reader's, but he gets there.

Then comes to second paragraph.]

Okay, look. It says, the universe's sp— space time is both... wooly severe'd... from that of other universes and connected to them in a way that defies con-ven-shun— conventional... understanding.

The "wooly severe'd" part is what stumps me.

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[anatural]

Wooly severe'd? [She frowns, confused, and leans over his shoulder to peer at the text. When she reads the words, she can't help a snort of laughter.]

That's "wholly severed." [Wooly severe'd. AHAHA. That's adorable.]

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[flammiferous]

...Right. [He clears his throat, fighting through the prickling sensation over his cheekbones.]

I'll just finish this paragraph.

It is temp— temporarily... whatever that word is. What time passes here does not pass in our home dimensions and so we all return to our native universes at the same moment as we left.

So basically it's saying where we are is completely unrelated to the time and locations we know of back home. That makes sense, since you said you've been here for about a year.

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[anatural]

[Korra watches him struggle with the words, and slowly comes to realize something.]

You can't read, can you?

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[flammiferous]

[Mako drops his device in his lap and sends her a defensive look.]

I can read. Some of the words are just dodgy to me.

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[anatural]

Wooly severe'd. [Need she say more?]

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[flammiferous]

[He rolls his eyes and begins to sit up straight.] You're not going to take this seriously, are you?

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[anatural]

I'm sorry! I'm taking this seriously.

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I can't believe you can't read.