<hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c1/Shade-Avi.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Captain Owen Shade<br/><strong>Date:</strong>March 22nd<br/><strong>Time of Day:</strong>Afternoon<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Memphis Rift Zone<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Korra<br/><hr/><br/><br/><br/>Owen felt a little guilty, he should have known his attempt at humor was a bad one and when the girl turned away he silently kicked himself.  “Listen, I was just joking.  I…I apologize.” He offered listening to the young woman try to sort out what had happened to her.  He didn’t catch everything she was saying.  He had no idea what was close, but he did listen though the pain in his hard was making it harder than he had thought it would.<br/><br/>Owen had no idea who or what an Equalist might be, but apparently it had something to do with the Coalition, or maybe linked with the Coalition.  He was still very unclear what they had stumbled into this morning and was trying to piece together the events.  Perhaps this brave, young woman could help more than just tend his wound.<br/><br/>“I was just doing my job Miss.” He said though by all rights his job was only to observe and not get involved, so it had been a little outside of his job description.  It was a discussion he was sure would be waiting for him with the Commander back in New Memphis.  “And you are welcome,” he added as she continued.  He watched sharp motion of her arms and starts as the sound of the earth ripping under her.  Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to unfetter himself of his armor so quickly.  This girl had power than some of the more powerful Ley Line Walkers he had heard of.  He tensed for a moment before she turned towards him and introduced herself.<br/><br/>Avatar.  The word meant nothing to him.  But it was clear that the girl was someone of importance in her world.  Maybe she was important in her own mind, but he thought not.  She had power and training.  She was young and dressed primitively, but she had training.  That much was obvious.  Owen had been here long enough to know that he didn’t know much about what Bob called the multiverse.  It was quite possible Avatar was a military term or a term of nobility in this girl’s world.  If he expected her to respect his rank he could do at least as much as to respect hers. Unless she caused too much trouble of course.  Owen watched smooth and graceful movements of her arms as she drew the serpentine water around her body holding aloft by will alone apparently.<br/><br/>“I am sorry Avatar Korra.  I do not know how to get you home.  I was stranded here years ago and have found no way back to my own Earth.  I cannot take you home.” Owen said with a pain in his eyes that carried a weight his words could never convey.<br/>