[OPEN] For business.

[refinery]

#1 - At your service!

Ah, telephones. A luxury item. They're mostly reserved for people with enough money to live in Borough #1 or people of high status, but today could be a very lucky day! Maybe! Satoru is going door to door with a mission and that mission is to sell telephones. Or sell something. Sure, his main goal is to convince consumers that they need a telephone and simply can't live without it, but telephones are still a little pricey. So! Every telephone salesman needs a backup plan. He has a variety of backups carefully packed away in a sack. Plus, he's got an arsenal of skills. Leaky roof? He can fix that! Empty fridge? He can go shopping for you! Whatever it takes to make people think (even more!) positively of Varrick's business.

So, ahem. Knock knock!

#2 - Breaktime! Part I

It's less of a break and more of a "finished with work" kind of thing, but Satoru has taken refuge in Avatar Korra Park, something he finds a little funny because he'd only recently learned the name of the current Avatar. Oops. At the moment, it's around sunset and he's demonstrating quite the skill! The "cannot play sports" skill, if you will. He's doing it mostly to pass time (and to probably forget about how terrible of a salesman he is), so he doesn't seem too bothered when he misses his ball with the stick he's using, or when the ball doesn't go very far. At least he has a good attitude about it.

3 - Breaktime! Part II

Okay, so sports aren't his thing but that's fine. Sports aren't his passion! Engineering is. So he's ditched the ball and his stick he stole from nearby a poor, defenseless tree and pulls out a sheet of parchment. Instead of drawing a blueprint of anything—he's 100% sure he'll never build anything as cool as one of those airships any time soon—he folds it up into a paper airship instead. By the time he's got something airworthy, the sun's just about finished setting. To be honest, Satoru thinks his build is pretty good for it being made out of a sheet of parchment. When he throws it in the air, it even flies a little. Hooray!

Things are pretty terrific! Until he excitedly catches the paper airship and it catches ablaze out of nowhere. What. No. WHY?!

"C-Combustible paper?! Do they make that here?!"

Satoru instinctively drops the burning paper and it drops into the grass. At least he has the brains to snuff out the fire with the heel of his boot before it can spread. Hopefully... no one saw that....

"Who invents that kind of thing, anyway?"

Comments

[refinery]

"Oh, do you live out of town? Before Boss Man Varrick hired you while that barrier was up, I mean." Either way, she did have an air about her as if she knew the area well.

[gainedacoupon]

"I come from Ba Sing Se. Me and my parents lived in the lower ring," she said with a smile on her face. She wasn't ashamed to admit where she came from.

[refinery]

"I've been there before," he said softly. "Shortly after the war ended. But as you can probably tell, I'm from the Fire Nation originally." He kept a smile on his face, but he wondered if Jin would think a little less of him now.

[gainedacoupon]

"Oh really? What's it like there? I always imagined the strangest things when I thought of what different places looked like."

She didn't seem bothered in the slightest by his words. He never gave her any reason to believe he wasn't a nice guy, so why would she treat him badly?

[refinery]

"Oh, um... it wasn't too bad. I used to live in a fairly wealthy district, so I never really had to worry about much until I moved to Ba Sing Se. I'm grateful for the luxury I had growing up; I received a good education and all sorts of training for my future."

Satoru shyly rubbed the back of his neck. "But to be honest, I would have been happy living in a shack as long as I was able to build things and take things apart."

[gainedacoupon]

Jin couldn't help but smile a little softer now. Satoru was really a nice guy, she could feel it. She reached out to poke his forehead and gave him a big grin.

"Which is why you are perfect for the job you have now, huh. You get to build things all day. I bet it must be a lot of fun."

[refinery]

Satoru rubbed the spot where Jin had poked him. Gosh!

"I'm pretty lucky, yeah. Sometimes I think Boss Man Varrick just hired me out of the kindness of his heart. The technology of this place is so much more advanced than what I'm used to, so I have a lot catching up to do, but he trusts me and he believes in me."

His smile warmed a bit. "Do you enjoy your job under him, Jin?"

[gainedacoupon]

She gave him a curious look. More advanaced...? Did that mean that maybe he was brought here too? From a past like her and the others? She wasn't sure how to ask him though. She was told they should really keep quiet about it and if she were wrong she wouldn't want to confused Satoru or make him uncomfortable at all.

She rubbed the back of her neck. " Me? Mr. Varrick has me answering these things called Telephones. I answer them and take messages to give to Varrick later. It's pretty easy."

[refinery]

He nodded, familiar with the term, but only because Varrick had tasked him with putting one together in lieu of an interview.

"I always find it enjoyable when we talk, so I bet the people who call you on the telephone feel similarly."

[gainedacoupon]

She couldn't help but smile more at that comment.

"That's really sweet of you! Do you really think that?"

[refinery]

"I do. It's not worth it to give compliments you don't mean."

[gainedacoupon]

She laughs a little and gives him a playful nudge. He really was a nice guy. She was really glad that she got to meet him.

" You're right. That's why I should tell you this now, how cool you are."

[refinery]

"I haven't done anything all that noteworthy...."

Although to be honest, it was still nice to hear.

[gainedacoupon]

"I'm not so sure about that. You already seem to have a good head on your shoulders, and I really like your attitude. It's a really good one to have," She said with a warm smile.

She really did think Satoru was a nice guy. She may not have known him long, but he just had that sort of feel about him, a really sweet guy.

[refinery]

"Well... thank you. And I could really say the same about you. People like you make any city brighter."

[gainedacoupon]

"You know what? With you and me working together with Varrick, I think we will make this whole city brighter together."

She looked so excited with this thought.

[refinery]

"I think this city's intricate electricity system is beyond me right now, but I know what you mean and I think you're right.

[gainedacoupon]

She snorted a little from his little joke. She gave him another light shove and a big grin.

"We just have to keep believing and I'm sure we'll make a big difference."