Can't close my eyes, I'm wide awake

[braavado]

[When Korra walks into the Spirit Portal, her immediate thought is, it shouldn't feel like this. There's an intense sort of heat that almost feels like it's burning right through her, though she can see that her skin remains unmarked. Korra barely has time to wonder what's going on before there's an odd snap of pressure that knocks her out.

(Unknown to her, a burst of light had lit up the Briggs mountains around her when she arrived, alerting anyone in the area.)

The world is white around her when she comes to, the heat from before replaced by the familiar cold of a snow storm. Korra staggers to her feet, hugging her arms around herself as she examines her new surroundings. This...definitely isn't the Spirit World. Korra knows she's going to have to find out why the portal had acted so weirdly, but first: finding out where she is is the priority.]

Hello? Is anyone around here?

[Korra calls out, not really expecting a reply.]

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[armoured]

W-Wow!

[He stands transfixed as she begins to water bend the snow, frozen solid by sheer disbelief. He knows that they have established her being from another world, but this is much stranger.]

How did you do that?! It's like alchemy, but you didn't even make a transmutation circle with your hands!

[forfeits]

Of course we did, what are you talking about? [ he sighs. they always help those in need, especially when no one else is willing.

but when the snow begins to move away from them, when she clears the way with a simple motion of her hands, he tenses. ]

What... what kind of alchemy is that? [ it can only be alchemy, surely, and he looks between Al and Korra, unconsciously putting himself between the two just in case. ]

[braavado]

[Ah, right. In the flurry of activity that followed Ed's arrival, Korra's forgotten all about explaining her predicament to him. She lowers her hands slightly, glancing at Al.]

Actually, that was what we were talking about before you got here. I'm lost...really lost. [She bites her bottom lip.] 'In a different world' sort of lost. What I'm doing now is called 'bending' where I'm from. I've never even heard of alchemy until Al mentioned it.

[armoured]

[He shifts a little guiltily when Korra has to explain that she's from another world - he should have done that, but he had been too concerned with bickering with Ed about coming out in the snow.]

I know it sounds crazy, Brother, but I believe her. I think this has something to do with a portal, but... I don't know how.

[Not Truth, he knows that much.]

How does bending work? Where do you pull the power from if you don't use any kind of transmutation circle?