markofthewise | Sokka the 11th

[Tap tap.] This thing on?

Right, uh, a few things. First off, Toph, I got that thing ready. Took me longer than I thought it would, but I've got it at the smithy. Meet me there!

Zuko, if you decide to cook anything, watch the countertop! I don't want you crushing our new house guest.

So Winry, would you like to have Firebender A? I'd give you Firebender 1 instead, but I'm kind of partial to that one. In any case, I think my days as a Firebender are over. That really gets redundant when you say it so much. No wonder Azula was so crazy.

Let's see, am I missing anything... Wait! People can hear me still! Err... hey everyone. Sokka here. Don't mind me, I'm just... hanging out and doing my thing, that's all. Life goes on. But uh, in case you guys were wondering, it's less than a month until my birthday. Something to think about. I know I'm forgetting something here...

OH! RIGHT! Emil, I have your order done. Paru, how many of those prop swords did you need? I've got like, five of them, is that enough? Uh, Nash, the prototype on yours kind of uh... went to pieces. So I'm starting over, but I'm gonna get it right this time! Honest!

[...]

Oh, I guess I'm done here. So uh... yeah. That's it. [...] How do you turn this thing off... [Finally there's the sound of the book just closing.]

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It's something you get used to, after a while. If you keep drinking. And there's no need to keep drinking.

I don't plan on starting. Frankly I think lamp oil would taste better.

Not really. It leaves behind this slippery feeling in your throat.

Speaking from experience?

Don't I always?

I am forced to remain decidedly skeptical.

That's probably a good thing.

Since you're here, can I get you anything? A soda, perhaps? Or... a soda? I think that's all we have, actually.

Soda is fine. But it will rot your teeth, you know.

[As Sokka retrieves the sodas, he glances down at the can worriedly.]

What, really?

Yes. But not right away, don't worry. Also, dentures are very convenient. [He smiles, showing teeth.]

And are those supposed to be dentures? [He gives a skeptical look as he hands the soda over.]

I speak from experience.

Is there ever a time you don't?

The times that I don't speak?

I bet that makes it hard when you have to do new stuff. [Sokka pops open his soda and starts chugging.]

Life makes things hard. [Taking a sip, here.] I just try not to get in its way.

Too bad it's not that easy. The universe loves going out of its way to prove me wrong.

Yeah, living will be the death of you. But by all appearances, you've done alright.

Clearly not as well as you.

Why do you say that? [Mmm, more soda.]

You succeeded in living twice as long as I did before the universe decided to send you here. That has to count for something.

Twice and change. But living's a more difficult thing for some people than for others. For all you know I spent those years being fed iced fruits while servants attended to my every whim. Which is to say: it's not just the space of years, it's the things you put into them.

An exciting life of being fed iced fruits, drinking lamp oil, and wearing dentures, I take it.

Hey, I didn't say that was what my life was like. Though I did have servants once upon a time.

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