steelweb: (Spider Lin)
steelweb ([personal profile] steelweb) wrote in [community profile] thoughtformed 2012-08-25 01:52 am (UTC)

[Action]

[She blinked in surprise as he patted her palm. Er. All right then... Well, she had to explain property damage to Korra, so this really wasn't all that bad. Ah. The inevitable question about bending.]

I'm a metal-bender. I can sense metal and earth, and move it. Shape it the way I need to.

[She twisted a little to show the twin spools of cable on her back. By way of demonstration, she took up her stance, and snapped her hands out at the wrist, drawing the cable down and out. A sweeping motion of her arms brought the ends snaking around in front of her, where she wrapped several inches around each other. A sharp clench of her fists crunched the ends solidly closed so that they wouldn't part, even with the weight of a Fire Nation crawler weighing on the end. The motions to remove that stricture would be slightly more complicated, but she chose to forgo that and just slice through the cables just beyond the crimped pieces with swift downward sweeps of a straightened palm. The crumpled piece fell to the rooftop at her feet, and she spooled the rest.

Leaning down and sliding out of stance, she picked up the chunk of twisted metal, and held it out in her open palm.
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Here. Keep it, if you like.

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