Mun really needs to stop

[oneofakind]

All right, mundane, you say you're tired and low on energy, and yet you're here. Adding another character to the long list of muses you can't even keep straight. No problem, I'm nice and loud and ready for action! I don't want to sit around cooped up in your brain like I was at the south pole.

Let's go fight some bad guys!

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[oneofakind]

[Oh good, subject change!]

Thanks! Means a lot, coming from you!

You can see with earthbending right? [That was how Master Katara described it at least. Korra's earthbending teacher hadn't really done it or taught her about it.]

[melonlord]

Something like seeing, yeah.

The thing about metal is that the metal itself isn't earth, but it comes from earth and was purified, but not all the way. So, I can feel the bits of earth that are still in the metal with how I see.

It's a like bending mud. You can't earthbend water, but you can bend the dirt in the mud so the water will follow it. There's a lot more earth in mud than in metal, though.

[oneofakind]

[More nodding, but with a bit of a confused face.]

How do you... "see" though?

[She's never put much (any) thought into how she bended mud, she just did it and it happened. She never questioned why or worried about the water in it. Sorry Toph, you have a lot of work to do.]

[melonlord]

[sighs]

See, this is why I made Twinkletoes practice earthbending with a blindfold on. You people are too dependent on what your eyes tell you.

When something big is coming towards you, you feel the ground rumble, right?

[oneofakind]

[Not happy about the thinly veiled insult, but this was a Master and she respected her, so Korra set her jaw and listened.]

Well, sure. How does that have anything to do with the things that make up earth?

[melonlord]

In order to bend metal, you have to be able to feel the earth within it. Which means being able to feel earth. Maybe you could get by just by knowing the earth is there, but you'd be trying to do it blind. And I know blind.

[oneofakind]

Feel the earth...

[Okay, sure. But what does that mean? She's going to crouch down and rest a hand on the ground to feel it, to try to understand.]

Feel it how?

[melonlord]

Start with just touching it -- eyes closed. Then imagine you're about to bend it, but don't actually bend it.

[oneofakind]

Just touch it?

[Korra doesn't sound convinced. She smells another frustrating failure of a lesson coming on, like her lessons with Tenzin. Him trying to explain something that just doesn't make sense and her continually failing at it.

Still, she takes a deep breath and rests her other hand on the ground, pressing both of them in, palms wide.]

Feel the earth...

[She tries to concentrate like she was bending it, but without moving her body. It was strange, and she wasn't sure exactly the effect she was after...

Oh.

Was it this? This strange tingling sensation? Like she felt her feet but she also... felt them on the earth.]

WOA!!

[Korra panicked and pushed off of the ground, standing wide eyed and unsure]

That was weird.

[melonlord]

It's awesome, isn't it?