wizardofahz:

Garata

“This is a soccer ball,” Alex explains as she holds said object.

She drops it to the ground and gently kicks it in Kara’s direction.

Kara looks at it blankly before returning her gaze to Alex.

Alex explains the basic premise of the game while demonstrating the appropriate amount of strength to put behind her kicks. She doesn’t care too much if Kara doesn’t pick up all the rules. There are plenty of Earthlings who don’t know them. It would be a problem if Kara shows up to PE and kicks a soccer ball across state lines though, so Alex focuses on the biomechanics.

“Oh,” Kara says as she becomes more familiar with the game. “So it’s like garata but without—” She pauses with a frowny face that Alex now recognizes to mean she needs a moment to transition between Kryptonian and Earthling cultures. “—what would you consider them… dragons?”

Kara looks up at Alex as if Alex has the knowledge to

confirm that dragons are indeed the creatures she’s thinking of.

In that moment, Alex’s life is a movie, and the director has freeze framed this moment with a record scratch.

When her biopic resumes, Alex voices the first thought that comes to mind:

“You had dragons on your planet, and you’re impressed by birds?!”

Her second thought is that she needs to know everything about these dragons.

The topic of sports is not touched upon for the rest of the day.