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[Ever since Bil/Catherine/whatever told him that the sword Guy lost would probably be returned, Luke checked the weapon shop every day in the hopes of finding it. The days he didn't find it were met with a disheartened sigh, half-hearted lingering to check out the rest of the weapons, then wandering back home. He remained hopeful, though, always diligently checking to see if it was there.

Today, however, Luke's efforts paid off. There, glittering on one of the displays, is the weapon he'd been looking for. He nearly sags with relief, and he grabs the sword before anyone can even think of taking it for themselves. He stays a little longer to see if everyone's doing okay with Sokka still at the draft, and then he heads home, sword in hand.

After all of that, Luke heads to his room and flops down on his bed, a little worn out from the day's events. He opens his journal, hoping to get to talk to at least one or two of the draftees whenever the Malnosso decide to return them to the hotel rooms.]

How's everyone doing out there?

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Oh, you know. It's been great. Yesterday we had a picnic. A little volleyball. The Third Party ruined the sandwiches though.

Sokka...

[Siiiigh.] Yeah yeah. I know.

... okay. [ a sigh of her own. ] At least we're done for the day, right?

Some of us, anyway. [There's those who are roughing it out at night too. Not all battles cease at sunset.]

[ a quiet noise, at that, and she'll push herself up. ]

You still out there?

Me? No.

[But he'll probably be back out there again before the sun rises. But that's pretty normal for him anyway.]

[ don't scare her like that, bro. though now she's concerned about who is there. she flops back down with a huge sigh. ]

Right... [ a beat. ] When are you heading out, tomorrow?

Five in the morning. Maybe earlier.

[Which means he should probably sleep soon!]

I'll come with you. [ another beat. ] If you don't mind company, anyway.

... really? I thought you slept in.

[He's thinking back to the time you were still up just as he was waking up.]

Not all the time... just sometimes. [ like when she has nightmares. but that part goes unsaid. a little sheepish now, anyway. ] I get the feeling I'm going to fall asleep really early tonight, anyway.

Fair enough, it's a date. [There's a humorous irony there that Xion should pick up. ~~But Luke might not~~]

See you in the morning, bright and early.

[ really Sokka. really. there's a momentary pause, and then she laughs. ] A date, then. [ because apparently we are all terrible people here. and she trusts Luke to know better. ] Man, it's still going to be dark out...

So bring a lantern, then. It's what I do.

[...

If Sokka put more feeling into that, Luke would think Winry was lying about him not being so damn cheerful about everything all the time. So, in that same tone:]

What, really? Those bastards.

Seriously, no concept of how to have a good time.

Maybe they didn't like the sandwiches. Still, they didn't have to blow up over it.

It's just their kind of thing. Who can say? Maybe they object to meat.

Touchy vegetarians?

It would explain them wanting to kill off all the livestock. Maybe. Not really.

More like it'd explain why they want to cut off all our food supplies.

That kind of goes hand in hand with them wanting all of us dead.

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[Voice] See, if we talk in the subject, the comments won't stack in gmail

[Voice] Also I have hotmail so your cunning plan is invalid

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