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Airbenders are pretty thoroughly repopulated now, but they're still minorities anywhere but the handful of enclaves that have retaken the open temples or integrated into the populations that have woven into them. Beila doesn't live in one of those enclaves. She lives in Republic City. Benders are a minority, airbenders more so. She's the only one in her class. It could still be a coincidence that she's supposed to do her history project on Avatar Aang, her some-number-of-greats grandfather, and not casual stereotyping. Whatever. Her partner's not a bender at all unless he's very quiet about it, he's just a random cute boy who sits to her left. Dao, that's his name.
"Hey," she says. "When's good for you to meet up and work on this thing?"
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roc_on
roc_on
"Pretty good. Played with ice. Talked to the nun who's supervising me about spirit stuff. She taught Avatar Meixing airbending."
roc_on
"It's all right, but she wants me to spend a lot of time meditating, like, a lot, like I'd have to drop out of school, which maybe I should do anyway."
thinklikethis
"I think I would probably miss you," he says. "If you dropped out of school."
He seems to have some difficulty admitting this.
He seems to have some difficulty admitting this.
roc_on
"...well, if you wanted, we could still hang out sometimes. I'd have some free time, just not enough to do school."
thinklikethis
"Um... it was kind of uncomfortable," he says. "But, you know. You stopped."
roc_on
"I do try to be nice. I'm not perfect. I'm only human. That and an ancient reincarnated spirit-person."
roc_on
They are.
Beila pays fairly minimal attention in class; she's about half checked out already.
Beila pays fairly minimal attention in class; she's about half checked out already.
roc_on
And school ends, and Beila's idly reshaping her ice in its bottle: now it's a cube, now it's a sphere, now it's a triangle, now it's a lopsided star. "I think I'll stick out the term," she yawns. "It's only a few more weeks, and that'll put me at a better stopping place."
roc_on
"I feel like going and buying some juice and seeing if I can turn it into a tasty slush," she says, "want to come?"
roc_on
"Cool."
They walk; Beila's clothes (she does wear a traditional airbender outfit, if only because otherwise she'd have to pick something) ripple with the occasional steadying breeze. She gets herself some apple juice and concentrates on it, moving her free hand in a wavy waterbender form. She freezes about half of it solid and leaves the rest liquid. "Well, that didn't work," she remarks.
They walk; Beila's clothes (she does wear a traditional airbender outfit, if only because otherwise she'd have to pick something) ripple with the occasional steadying breeze. She gets herself some apple juice and concentrates on it, moving her free hand in a wavy waterbender form. She freezes about half of it solid and leaves the rest liquid. "Well, that didn't work," she remarks.