Dinner couldn't come any closer for Leia. To keep herself busy, she acquainted herself with the acolytes while trying to understand what was written on a newspaper she'd gotten her hands on. After that, she tried looking for something that could make herself feel more comfortable when laying down on the stone bed she was provided with. She heard once thst this type of bed was actually good for ones back, but all she wanted was a comfortable place to rest her meaty head. She tried to lay on it in different positions, but somehow, nothing could work. She ended up settling for a hammock her parents packed for her and set the woven net down on the stone, ready to be hung later.
She then felt for her left shoulder, touching the part she knew she had wounded earlier that day and was glad to find out that it was no longer painful. Reaching her bandages through the opening of her tunic on her chest, she pulled at it and felt the wrapping on her arm loosen and unravel. Once she pulled the strip of cloth out, she raised her left sleeve to look at it, pleased to see there wasn't a trace of the wound.
Leia sat on the stone bed for a moment, thinking of what else to do. She only had an hour left before the assigned dinner time. Counting through her options, she looked at her hands which were placed at her lap with her palms facing up. For a moment, she simply stared at her palms before standing up and leading herself outside.
She found a spot next to the water with barely any foliage and looked at the horizon just in time to see the sun start to set. Colors that Leia wasn't used to seeing paint the sky made themselves prominent. Purple, pink, and orange danced around a border of blue as they parade the sun which was starting to disappear slowly.
Leia stood there and quickly looked around her. No one was in sight. She hated bending in front of people she didn't know. She knew Aang knew she was a waterbender, so probably Tenzin knew too, but she didn't want to use it beyond healing. However, she becomes a hypocrite maybe once or twice a month wherein she spends her time wielding her blood like a sword and fights off imaginary villains. It made her feel powerful, but she relents that maybe it was just because of the moon.
She takes a stance, shakes her arms out and draws water from in front of her. She does a series of motions, doing a warmup routine she'd established under Katara's supervision, before letting the water climb up her arms and clung to the whole length of them. The tendrils weren't really her thing, but Katara wanted to see if she could do it. Leia was never one to back down from finding out, so as soon as the words left her sifu's mouth, Leia started to work on it.
At first, she had to let the water climb up through her feet and the rest of her body before the water reached her arms and flailed like an octopus. With a few more tries, all she needed was for water to wrap around her upper torso and then her tendrils were much more manageable. Come late summer, she simply needed to wrap them around the whole length of her arm much like she did now and let it climb up to her shoulders so the tendrils were easier to control.
With her water-arm extensions, she quickly got to work and aimed at whatever she could find as a target. She blasted at trees, rocks, and simply the air. Then, when she was bored with that, she the water from her hands form a frozen scythe that towered a few feet above her. She froze it because she couldn't quite do what she did with blood wherein it was solid but not frozen. Leia theorizes that it was easier to have blood stay in the semi solid-liquid state due to it not being purely water, having a mix of proteins and organic matter that had stronger affinity to one another. Although, the advantage of using water to make these solidified weapons is that it would take less time and effort to shape them.
Leia's current scythe had a slick blade unlike the very first one she tried forming with her own blood. Taking her scythe, Leia slashed at the air, wanting more than ever to have someone to practice with. At some point, she lost focus and accidentally let her scythe melt into water. Seeing this happen, Leia's brain formulated an idea and picked the water back up, gathering it to a blob.
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