Father's out on campaign and doesn't know. Mother thinks she's on a school trip. The school thinks she's staying home. In truth, she's in a cave in the mountains. Digging a tunnel with her fists, in the dark. If she can connect the southwest passages to the main burrow, she'll be able to visit much more freely.
Her steady break-scoop-pack movements make a comfortable rhythm, and she allows herself to fall into an almost trance-like state as she works.
"A spirit's way of looking at the world is... different than a human's. They can often perceive things that we are blind to. I know not how or why."
"Well, thanks for the advice, I hope I get a chance to implement it one day."
"It seems like it'd be an adventure! With a library at the end of it! Of course, I don't know how long my presence will be required here."
"As in pai sho, one must never be so eager to seize a potential advantage that you neglect to consider the full range of consequences."
"If you have not yet been told explicitly, the reason you are here is to improve and expand the Fire Lord's arsenal of war machines. It is unlikely you will be released until you either do so, or provide enough reason for the others to feel confident enough in your loyalty that they do not believe you will run."
"I was afraid of that. I don't know anything about how to make things explode! I make nifty little gadgets."
"Even knowing that doing so would greatly anger the highest echelons of the Fire Nation?"
"You said 'if I could'. If they're not gonna let me, I really can't, can I?"
He starts setting up another game. This time is the tigerdillo opening, a tight cluster with two "fangs" projecting forward.
"Why not, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Besides where I lived last week? I don't mind camping and could probably find someone to crash with eventually."
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