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Beila has been volunteering at the hospital for a week now. About four percent of the population can waterbend, and all benders have to be trained some just to control their powers instead of being plagued by constant accident, but most don't acquire significant skill, and most don't specialize in healing. There is always more demand for waterbenders than there are waterbenders to be had, so Beila's working alongside nonbending and other-element doctors and nurses and techs. They start her in the burn ward, because burns are easiest and Avatar or no she's a novice, and she washes away hurts and refuses to sign autographs and takes her legally required twenty-minute breaks at regular intervals and then heals more.
The school term ends. Beila withdraws from classes. She writes an open letter about that, thanking the teachers and so on for their time and attention, explaining her decision, and she puts it up on the public-facing official Avatar screenserver that the nuns set up for her. She divides her time between classes with Shifu Hayaka, volunteer work at the hospital, intensive meditation, reading, and Dao.
She's with Dao when the earthquake hits, sitting on her roof while he does homework and she reads.
The ground shakes like gelatin, and Beila's been airbending to keep from falling over too long to react with anything other than an instinctive shove of air; but the air is sluggish, reluctant, something is wrong.
The roof has a view of the sea, and the sea is bubbling - no steam, it's not boiling, it's just angry -
And the air is too warm.
Something has the elements spectacularly agitated.
And Beila doesn't know what.
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roc_on
roc_on
...Beila decides to wait for a silent moment to see if elaboration is forthcoming.
thinklikethis
"I feel llike I remember her, but I don't know any details, I just know she must've existed once because babies don't fall out of thin air."
roc_on
A man approaches the house.
He doesn't seem to recognize Beila.
"You, this is private property, shoo," he says.
He doesn't seem to recognize Beila.
"You, this is private property, shoo," he says.
thinklikethis
"Do you live here?" wonders Dao. "'Cause if so, we're here to talk to you about that spirit you pissed off."
roc_on
...Now he recognizes Beila, who wafts herself to her feet and stares him down.
"I - I covered the sinkhole," he says.
"With boards that could be easily nudged aside if someone didn't feel like finding somewhere else to pour their refuse," says Beila conversationally. "Instead of hiring an earthbender for a - how long was it, ten minutes?" She glances at Dao. "Maybe not even that."
"I - I covered the sinkhole," he says.
"With boards that could be easily nudged aside if someone didn't feel like finding somewhere else to pour their refuse," says Beila conversationally. "Instead of hiring an earthbender for a - how long was it, ten minutes?" She glances at Dao. "Maybe not even that."
roc_on
"Instead of hiring an earthbender for a five-minute job you put down boards that did not work, and you annoyed a supervolcano. The earthquakes were the least of what would've happened if it hadn't been willing to calm down on my say-so. I took the liberty of having the sinkhole properly covered for you," says Beila, "and now I require your guarantee that you aren't going to do anything to reopen it. Like build anything heavy on that lot, or anything with a basement - or sell it without explaining this little drawback of the property."
"Of - of course, Avatar Beila," stammers the lot owner.
"Wonderful," says Beila. "I'm glad we had this talk. You'll take spirits more seriously in the future, I imagine."
He nods mutely.
"Of - of course, Avatar Beila," stammers the lot owner.
"Wonderful," says Beila. "I'm glad we had this talk. You'll take spirits more seriously in the future, I imagine."
He nods mutely.
roc_on
"I'll check on that lot in the future," Beila adds. "Without warning. I do hope it will be intact at that time."
"Of course," exclaims the man.
"Of course," exclaims the man.
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