Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes
nonstop from mitosis to now.
Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance
inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch
by inch America is giving itself
to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness
lap at your sides. Give darkness an inch.
You aren’t alone. All of the continents used to be
one body. You aren’t alone. Go to sleep.
Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,
Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,
Psychology says: but first it has to be night, so
Biology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town
and
History says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.
Girls Scouts encounter Bigfoot the most frequently. Part of their oath is to keep him a secret because he’s very kind and makes up 30% of their revenue due to his fervent love for thin mints.
[ID: A digital drawing of Katara and Zuko from; Avatar the Last Airbender. Zuko and Katara are in a dark room in the Fire Nation Palace. Zuko is in a comatose-like state, while Katara is leaning over him with a very concentrated expression. She is healing him with her waterbending.]
The room they’re holed up in appears to be an area to invite guests for tea or small meetings. Zuko’s lying on top of a pile of floor cushions, and when Katara presses her palm and sinks into it, she realizes it’s stuffed with feathers. And then she realizes where she is, trapped in the Fire Nation’s palace in the heart of the capital of her sworn enemy. But the enemy is no longer an enemy, just a collection of people who hurt others and a collection of people who get caught in the crosshairs.
Katara doesn’t know how long she spends healing Zuko but there’s no doubt the damage to his heart will take time. She wonders if he might fall into a coma much in the same way Aang did after Ba Sing Se, and based on how his heart stutters and his chi pathways struggle to realign, it might be a very real possibility.
It's been in honor working with my group, a and I'm glad to see this all come together.
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Also thanks to @ecaworks! She made an amazing piece for this fanfiction.
“in one of his most famous feats, it is said that muad’dib appeared before the people of arrakeen without a stillsuit, and before their eyes he transformed his body into a pickle. he was known as pickle muad’dib. funniest shit this world has ever seen” - from the wisdom of muad’dib by the princess irulan