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[savedtheworld]

Air Temple Island:

A. Aang starts off his morning with airbending training. Some meditation, some rounds through the air gates, some general practice of forms and some balancing upon pillars. He'll be glad to tutor anyone else in need of instruction. He is a master, after all, even if he's claiming not to be Avatar Aang. Just a random prodigy airbender who happens to be named Aang! At least, that's the cover story he's trying this week.

B. This young monk has commandeered the kitchen! His goal? To make some fruit pies! Feel free to stumble across him while he's in the act of baking them, while some doting air acolytes try to help out.

Republic City/Spirit Worlds

C. And so Aang makes his way through the city atop his sky bison, Appa, who has a large batch of the fruit pies kept on his back. Aang may stop to check in on any number of his friends if they're around, with personalized fruit pies for new friends and old.

D. Aang will also spend time down exploring the Spirit Wilds. He'll use the rest of his batch of fruit pies here, distributing them to those who need it. He'll also try to investigate the spirit vines and wandering spirits some more, puzzled about all of the odd things he's heard about so far.

E. Finally, he can be found near the barrier, meditating in an attempt to commune with the spirits. He better be careful with all those stray spirits wandering about...

Comments

[fallensun]

What did firebending bandits want with some dinky little Earth Kingdom island?

[Details, yeah, but the story doesn't have many so far so he has to ask. He's already finished one pie and he'd kind of hoped the story would last longer than it would take for him to finish the second.]

[savedtheworld]

Well... um... they got lost on their way back to the Fire Nation and were looking for a way back! You know, some of them can be really bad with directions.

[fallensun]

Who's gonna give them directions if they attack the place?

[Flaw in the logic? A little bit of dishonesty? Who knows, but he's not going to let go of this. Making the kid squirm is more entertaining than the story itself.]

[savedtheworld]

Y-you see... [Nervously rubs at neck!] They actually managed to get the directions! They found the map, s-so... they thought they'd burn down the village to take their boats!

[fallensun]

How'd they get there if they didn't have boats?

[Wow, this is just getting worse and worse!]

[savedtheworld]

Well... You see... to get there! They rode eel hounds! But when they got to the island, the eel hounds wound up running away! It happens sometimes, especially when you're a mean firebender?

[fallensun]

For something that's supposed to have happened to you, this sure does sound a lot like you're making it up as you go along. Or...

[He toys with the end of his braid idly, not even bothering to hide his smirk.]

Are you trying to hide something?

[savedtheworld]

No no, nothing's being hidden here! [A very nervous smile appears.] It's just... such a big story, it's hard to remember!

[fallensun]

Uh huh. You'd think if it was such an exciting thing, every last second of it would be engraved in your memory. It sounds a bit like you're trying to trick me. Did it not happen?

[He tips his head to the side.]

Did it happen to someone else?

[He tips his head to the other side, smirk widening.]

Or could it be...no, that's not possible at all...

[It's really just bait. He doesn't have a definite end to that sentence yet.]

[savedtheworld]

Wh-what do you mean? [He frets!] N-no, it's all true, a hundred percent, I'm definitely from this time!

[fallensun]

Oh, are you? Cause, you know, I didn't say anything about that, so it's pretty interesting that you brought it up!

[Well, there's the answer then. Dumb bald kid.

Of course, if he's talking to a dumb bald kid from the past, that raises a few more interesting questions...He won't ask them right away, though, because it's too much fun watching him squirm.]

[savedtheworld]

I... I did! I must have been thinking about... um... something I heard! That's all! Nothing weird going on here - how are those pies doing? Really good, huh?!

[fallensun]

Oh, yeah. Really good. So how far in the past are we talking? I mean, you came from there so you must be able to give me a year, right? Some current events?

[He thinks with his stomach approximately 40% of the time, but unfortunately, he's way tuned in on this now.]

[savedtheworld]

Um... Uh... Those are good questions! [He rubs at his neck nervously.] Let me try to think over... the answers to some of those! [He has spilled his secret to a few people so far, but all these questions are making him just slightly uneasy.]

[fallensun]

Wow, either you're really stupid or you're hiding something good.

[He shoves the rest of the second pie in his mouth and hops back down. He doesn't bother to wait until he's finished the pie before3 he starts talking again.]

Better think of those answers quick, or I'm gonna find a way to jog your memory.

[savedtheworld]

[That doesn't sound very pleasant. Aang tries to waves his hands innocently.]

H-hey, no need to get impatient... I'm just a simple monk!

[fallensun]

Whatever happened to those exciting adventures, Just a Simple Monk? See, if you're not from this time and you're still an airbender anyway, that's pushing the date back pretty far. Plus, I'm pretty sure airbenders aren't supposed to go on exciting adventures. They're supposed to sit around and eat vegetables and being boring and snobby about philosophical crap all day.

So.

[He fusses with the end of his braid, looking nonchalant, but smirking dangerously all the while.]

Either you're telling me a lot of really interesting lies to cover up something boring or a lot of really dumb lies to cover up something really interesting. Depends on which kind of idiot you are.

[As if he's satisfied that there are no new split ends, he drops his hair back over his shoulder and favors Aang with his full attention.]

One kind of idiot gets his ass kicked for wasting my time and the other better hope he makes things worth my while or he's not gonna be making any more pies any time soon. Or ever again.

[savedtheworld]

H-hey. [This is getting bad, fast. Aang slowly backs up, defensively. He might not be the best at keeping his secret identity, but with how hostile this guy's turning out to be, he feels like letting him know anything might be a bad idea.]

Air's the element of freedom... we- we definitely don't just sit around all day! I was just... I was born when that Sozin guy was fire lord. And when he - he used the comet to attack my people. Now... now I'm here. [He goes on uneasily, perhaps hoping a bit that the unease could be attributed to recalling something so traumatic rather than his worries about himself..]