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[notyetlegend]

LOCKET/COMPASS: TEXT → VIDEO → AUDIO → ACTION

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[jaywalks]

What happened happened because Solais played us, on top of being an asshole. We got duped. If anything, you let us know before we got in too deep.

[notyetlegend]

[There's a bit of sniffling as she regains her composure, wiping her nose with the back of her hand.]

A-alright. If you say so.

[jaywalks]

It's okay, Merida. Korra's already got part of it fixed.

[notyetlegend]

Sh-she did?

video;

[jaywalks]

[ the locket switches to video, and it's mako with one of those cigarettes, looking tired but alert. he lifts his right hand so merida can see the back of it, where a a gold numeral I is branded into his skin. it looks like liquid metal on his skin. ]

She has to do two more tasks, and I'll be fine.

[notyetlegend]

[When her half of the locket switches to video, it shows Merida looking about as tired as Mako probably feels, but her gloved hands are cupped around a small flame. Nothing else in her hands to suggest that the flame is clinging to anything other than the air between her fingers. Her eyebrows raise in surprise at the gold mark on his skin, knees drawing up to her chest.]

That's...that's good. Great even. I was so worried when she told me.

[jaywalks]

[ merida, your mother would be proud of the way he barely even reacts to the fire in her palms, no wistful stare or tired sigh, just the faintest flitting of his gaze down to her hands before it returns to his face. ]

She made it sound permanent, huh?

[notyetlegend]

[Merida has the decency to look a little sheepish and extremely guilty as she realizes she still has the flame in her hands, closing them together in order to snuff it out before resting her chin on top of her knees.]

Aye, she did. I know th' curse I put my mother under had a time limit but I didn't know whether or not you'd get your firebendin' back.

[Among other things, but that's the first thing that comes to mind.]

[jaywalks]

I... wasn't either, when I said I'd take it for Korra. [ a small confession, meant to reassure merida that he knew what he was getting into when he did it. ]

But she lost her bending once, at home, and — well, I didn't wanna see it happen to her again, you know? [ a brief pause. ] Is your mom alright?

[notyetlegend]

I know. I know I'd do anythin' for any of you too.

[Well, it's reassuring at least. She gives a small smile before frowning and shaking her head.]

I asked a witch for a spell to change her mind about my marriage, but it turned her into a bear instead. We found out, before I arrived, that it had happened before an' there was only one sunrise left to change her back. Elsa said I do, but...I haven't yet. She's still a bear back home.