Target Practice [OPEN]

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Who: Zoe and OPEN
What: Shooting stationary objects and doing chores
When: Flammedi, 21th of Rosefrucht
Where: Outside the Gazelle and Child and in the nearer environs to it
Rating: PG probably for mild space-western swearing

First on the list of things to do that morning: target practice. Zoe settled herself in at the shooting range beside the Gazelle and Chine, the side meant more for gunners than for rangers, and took aim again and again at the targets there. She needed to keep her hand in, when she wasn't going out targeting living things, and she hadn't enough rank-- or money-- for a horse of her own to go out with, so the moving target range wasn't available.

Plus, she kept trying to get the gun to change shape, like she'd been told it would do, but it so far stubbornly remained a shotgun. She favored shotguns, fair enough, but she sure did wish she could get a shape change in practice rather than out in the field some day when it would take her by surprise.

Then came an early lunch and walking out some of the horses that the more higher-ranked archers had taken out for the morning, and taking them back in to groom. At least that was an easy enough chore; she'd rather have that than mucking out their stables, which she did yesterday. Besides, that let her lead the horses around the nearby streets, and see who might be out and about. After a few weeks here without many friends, she was starting to open up at least a little and greet people.

Just a little, though.

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[someonetocarry]

"Well, she's stuck jest learnin' whatever they're teachin' her here, special or not," Zoe points out, sounding vaguely amused. "She's a good kid, though, at least, I'll give her that. Good t'know she's got more friends here."

It's been a long time since Zoe's had to fly it alone. At least the younger folk seem to have somebody they know.

"Y'good with that horse, now? Or need me for the back end?"

[chittybang]

Asami half-smiles at Zoe's regard for Korra. She sees what a good person Korra is, too, although she wishes she could give some sort of hearty affirmation. They're friends, but they aren't as close as they could be, Asami can only nod along with impressions in mind.

Maybe this is the time to fix that.

"Oh, thanks, I think I'm good. Don't let me keep you if there's somewhere you need to be."

[someonetocarry]

"Jest a horse to walk out, who prob'ly ain't gettin' any looser or cooler just standin' there." Zoe gives the horse's forehead a final scratch and steps back from the stall, offering Asami a smile of her own. She seems a good woman, at least, and potentially good to have at your pack. She'd have to pay a little more attention in the shooting range.

So she finishes with: "See you back in the yard for practice this afternoon?"