[Magic Knight Rayearth/Avatar] if all the rest were hulls (Clef & Umi gen)

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Title: if all the rest were hulls
Fandom: Magic Knight Rayearth/Avatar
Length: 130 words
Prompt: remember when our songs were just like prayers for chibidl's birthdayfic
Pairing: Clef and Umi gen
Other: See the au:mkr/avatar tag for the rest of this series.

Excerpt: Umi sings sometimes when she's working, sorting through their supplies or practicing her bending. Her songs are the legends of the Northern Water tribe, Moon and Ocean intertwining, the history of her people.

Umi sings sometimes when she's working, sorting through their supplies or practicing her bending. Her songs are the legends of the Northern Water tribe, Moon and Ocean intertwining, the history of her people. The words are precise, haunting, and when Clef shuts his eyes, he can hear the sea in them, no matter how far away it really is.

This is who I am, she sings, and he is fascinated. He's traveled throughout the world, but never managed to make it that far north. He's always wondered what it would be like to live in a world choked by ice, surrounded by ocean. But from Umi's words, it's an embrace of ice, a rocking of ocean. The sea gives and the sea takes away.

He promises himself he'll visit after the war.