"Not everyone can do it, but yes. There are a number of people who can control water in my colony, including myself."

He's been keeping a large waterskin on his hip so that he'll have something to bend with even if he's nowhere near water. He opens it and lets a small stream of water come out. Moving his arms in a simple motion, the water curves and twists into a figure eight shape, flowing like that for a second before Juvia's eyes before he lets it return to his waterskin for future use.

"My colony originally had four communities - each one with a spiritual connection to a different element: water, fire, earth and air. A fifth one was made about seventy years ago, that blended the four communities. I was living in that fifth one when the storm struck, but I was originally born in the Northern Water Tribe."