markofthewise | Appointments Post

I'm sure. [And she actually is. Hell if she knows any better.] I mean you're a swordsman right? It's not a huge surprise.

[But wait.] And how did you say you found this kid? He was just...randomly wandering around the South Pole?

Oh, right. He was frozen in an iceberg. [Nonchalantly.] Katara couldn't control her waterbending, she was yelling at me, and bang. She opened up the iceberg he was in.

[...just. This look.] How the heck does a person survive being in an iceberg?!

[Sokka shrugs.]

It's an Avatar thing. It's better not to question it. He was in there a hundred years.

...and I thought things from my world were weird. I don't get it. I don't know if I want to.

No no, you're basically right. My world is incredibly weird. Not even going to deny it.

But like...you guys seemed pretty normal. That's what I'm stuck on.

That's because we are normal. We just, you know, had a lot of not normal stuff happen to us.

I get that, trust me. It's not like things back home were normal for us either.

So this Avatar guy. He's not here, is he?

[Yeah, he kind of gets that vibe from a lot of people. Not too many people come here with normal lives.]

Nope. He's been here twice, but only for like... a week or two each times. It's been about a year since he last showed up.

And you don't think he'll ever return?

[He frowns, looking away.]

I don't know. It would be weird if he did. I mean, unless he's from the future or something. He'd be five years younger than me now.

And everyone else here is pretty much close to their own age?

Well, not exactly, but they all arrived here at the age I remembered them being.

Close enough. Beat was like that too, but it's just...weird because Neku and Joshua and I have been here for what feels like forever. It's like a giant reminder that hey, I'm supposed to be 15.

Yeah, see? Exactly. I would be fifteen. But now I'm seventeen. But not only that, I'm a year older than Zuko now. He used to be a year older than me.

Okay first of all I have no idea who Zuko is. And secondly when do you turn eighteen? Trust me, it's important.

Zuko is just this guy, not important. [A shrug.] And February, why?

Okay sure, but if I find out different...February what?

Twenty-fifth.

Second. That's all I needed to know.

Anyway...maybe there's a way to age people up around here.

Second? [He doesn't know what she meant by that, but quickly catches up with the shift of conversation.] Well, I've seen them do that more than a few times, but that's never permanent.

My birthday. It's on the second of February. [She nods though in agreement.] And usually those times end up in a huge disaster anyway. Is anything ever permanent around here?

[Oh. So she's like, almost a month older than him. Man! He likes being the older person in his friendships!]

That's starting to sound dangerously philosophical. I thought we were going to go on a water slide.

All right, all right. I vote on the biggest one.

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