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Who: Anyone
When: Day 55, late morning
Where: Anywhere
What: Life in Thusia (mingle)

[So, it's still early enough to get a full day's work done, and there's much to do around the HQ.

As people know by now, Level 4 has mostly been cleared of active nature, though farther from the apartments near the stairs there are still the remains of vines and moss and dirt on the buildings and floors. Fallen trees and tangled roots still clog up the area around the buildings which must have once been shops.

Aside from the library claimed by Henrietta and perhaps few other establishments, they are doorless, and inside those abandoned buildings there is still evidence of old equipment and rotted furniture waiting to be re-purposed, broken down for offerings, or thrown out if it's beyond use.

There's not much fresh plantlife left here to collect for offerings, but plenty of cleaning to be done, perhaps in Eizon's name, in exchange for the electricity flowing through whatever fixtures people have acquired by now, or as an offering of kindness in exchange for water...

Up on the fifth level, nature stubbornly continues to prowl.]

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I can't do a thing with wood. And I can shape the metal, but that doesn't mean I can make a good sword, or whatever. I could duplicate something, or just make a sharp blade, but good weapons usually have balance and stuff.

Hmmmm.

All good points, yeah. But what about a small weapon made entirely of metal?

I won't know until I try.

[Hmmmm. More thinking]

You don't use weapons? Just the earth itself?

Nope. Some earthbenders do -- like Avatar Kyoshi had war fans -- but I don't need 'em.

Except when underwater when I can't bring rocks with me.

Yeah, that underwater fight was pretty unfair to you.

[Grins] I'd like to see you really cut loose with your powers sometime.

I practice up on the fourth floor sometimes. But that's not a real fight.

No, not really.

Which means we should go hunting together, yeah. You can be the tough girl, and I will be the pack mule.

Sounds good to me. And you watch the skies and I'll watch the ground.

Yeah. About the skies--

Yanno the red lizagons fly.

I'm aware of that.

Hey now. [Hat ruffle]

Look how well we did on the giant croc o' doom. I'm sure we could take one of them out. Split the spoils. Get some ice cream to celebrate.

Well, I've helped fight ships before. The Duke told me where to aim, and I fired the boulders over.

The Duke...?

[Thinking thinking thinking]

Yanno, no offense to your skill and all, but-- why are you so proficient at kicking ass at such a young age?

Kid I knew back home. He used to be a resistance fighter.

Well, at first it was just because the only places I could really practice was with the badger-moles and at fighting tournaments. My parents wouldn't let my teacher teach me anything really good, so I had to learn from watching badger-moles, like the first earthbenders did. But it was pretty sweet that I could make grown earthbenders cry when I kicked their butts.

Then, about a year ago, Aang saw me fighting and asked me to teach him earthbending. So I took my act on the road, and got chased all around the world by the Fire Nation. Basically, they were trying to conquer the whole world, and it was Aang's job to stop them, since he's the Avatar and all. And, since I was his friend and earthbending teacher, that usually meant people were trying to attack me.

After we ended the war, I kept with the teaching thing. I'd do it here if I thought any of you could learn earthbending.

[Now processing... processing]

So this bending is a kind of innate skill then. Like magic?

I don't know much about magic. But yeah, you have the talent, or you don't. You gotta learn how to use it, and people still develop new techniques with it, but I can't teach anyone earthbending unless they have the ability to learn it. Without that... it's just movements.

But how can you tell if someone has the talent for it or not?

Usually it kind of breaks out on its own when you're a kid, without training. Not anything big, but moving pebbles.

[HMMMMMM]

[Stares at a pebble TO MOVE IT WITH HIS MIND!!!!]

[Nope]

You probably would have figured it out by now.

No harm in belated attempts, yeah.

But yeah.

Yeah.

You can still fight without bending, you know.

I can, but the dagger makes it's extremely close range. Maybe I should pick up something else.

--- Not that that matters on our packmule run!

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