Then she'll be recognizable without being entirely out of place, should she decide to sightsee.

Good.

But mostly she'll be managing her booth.

There's not a lot of natural foot traffic. Most of the interesting things are traditionally in the center.

With only two she can't handle that much throughput. Hopefully people who wander by will like what they hear. She has signs!

She gets a steady trickle of people who have either heard or heard about her contraptions. The chance to record your own message is a big hit.

She thought so!

She's going to Vickrey-auction off one of them. People can submit bids throughout the day.

Ooh! Many people would like to have a phonograph.

She has the rules of Vickrey auctions written up by the one that's going to be sold. Second price; everyone submits bids, highest bidder gets the phonograph but only pays the next highest price.

Some of the dockworkers place bids, as does the smith she rented the forge from. One man in a very nice outfit reads the rules, and writes down his bid with a smirk.

Good for him.

She mans her booth cheerily, eats festival foods, peeks at bids.

Festival foods include small fried birds on sticks, small fried squid on sticks, small fried breads on sticks, and fireflakes, which are sort of like cornflakes but searingly spicy.

Most bids are between what she would make for a week to two weeks of work at the docks.

Well, it'd let her switch to full time phonograph production, at least. She eschews the meat; she's been avoiding it when she can. She loves the fried bread and the fireflakes.

It seems there's going to be a firebending show shortly after sundown.

Worth seeing, if she doesn't need to be at her booth then.

Everyone's going to be there, it's the big attraction.

Yay!

A stage has been erected along one wall of the square. The show begins with a group of children in school uniforms, looking very serious. They line up in a row facing the audience and start a synchronized series of basic punches and kicks. Small jets of flame puff out with each movement. The people cheering most enthusiastically at this point appear to be parents.

Awww, cuties.

Next up is a line of teens, in military-style uniforms. Their moves are quicker, surer, more impressive.

Very nice.

The finale is two older men. Their performance is much more freeform, their moves more elegantly precise in comparison with the clockwork rigidity that came before. Great gouts of flame mix with intricate twining threads to create fanciful sculptures that dance and writhe in the air above.

Pretty! Also Page is learning a lot about firebending.

The design morphs into a dragon's head, arcing sinuously about. Someone backstage tosses a small package into the air and the dragon twists to exhale a stream of fire at it. It explodes, showering multicolored sparkles across the square, dazzling the crowd. They burst into furious applause.

Yup that sure outright breaks the laws of physics. Should be fun for Sing to deal with.

The two take their bows, and the show wraps up. There are mundane fireworks, but as a followup, they're a bit less impressive.