There are moments in the morning when you wake up, and you can hear voices dimly but aren't awake enough to understand them. Then, all of a sudden, you wake up and you can understand everything.
That was what learning waterbending was like. She'd been muddling through, trying to figure out what motions did what and how it all fit together, and suddenly there was someone to teach her, and she felt like she was waking up.
“You're progressing very quickly,” Pakku told her, with an annoyed look at Aang, who was making a snowman. “Soon we'll have to call you Master Katara.”
Didn't Aang feel it, too? Or was it not the same, if you already knew an element? Katara would never goof off during training. She couldn't, not when there was so much to learn. Not when they had a mission. Not when every wave and dagger of ice felt like something she was born to do, something perfect and right and as much a part of her as her heartbeat or her breath.
Aang was the Avatar. He ought to understand these things.
(Later she caught sight of him soaring through the sky with a big grin on his face and remembered that he did)
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branchandroot
Waterbending
Date: 2010-01-25 04:50 am (UTC)That was what learning waterbending was like. She'd been muddling through, trying to figure out what motions did what and how it all fit together, and suddenly there was someone to teach her, and she felt like she was waking up.
“You're progressing very quickly,” Pakku told her, with an annoyed look at Aang, who was making a snowman. “Soon we'll have to call you Master Katara.”
Didn't Aang feel it, too? Or was it not the same, if you already knew an element? Katara would never goof off during training. She couldn't, not when there was so much to learn. Not when they had a mission. Not when every wave and dagger of ice felt like something she was born to do, something perfect and right and as much a part of her as her heartbeat or her breath.
Aang was the Avatar. He ought to understand these things.
(Later she caught sight of him soaring through the sky with a big grin on his face and remembered that he did)