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Sokka the 12th - [Written/Action]

[Filtered to his friends at 80%. You know who you are, people.]

Since my sister arrived, me, Toph, and Zuko have moved to House 56. Right next to Building 5, hard to miss. Just thought I'd filter this though, what with evil demons going around destroying houses and stuff. So feel free to update your address book!

[And that's all Sokka is writing for now. Right now he's working on getting his room set up if his housemates want to bother him. Just about everything is moved over now, not that there was a whole lot to take. Sokka will miss those purple walls back home, though. He's a little bummed out since he recently discovered that his old 'boss' Elisa stopped showing up to give him sandwiches at the smithy and seems to be gone altogether. Sure, he's his own boss now, but he was getting rather fond of jalapenos...]

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Well, maybe he'll be a nice pirate and give it to me when I ask, then.

Oh, a flamethrower. [And she actually succeeds in not laughing and she's speaking with so much false innocence.] She must have really appreciated it. Is it to help keep her warm?

...wait. What were you doing with a flamethrower?

[Said with such frankness, like this is totally normal.] Nah, she wants to use it to build an automail arm that can shoot out fire. I kind of built two flamethrowers two weeks ago because of some weird Malnosso experiment. Long story short, they made me want to try and become a Firebender.

Uh, okaaaay. What kind of experiment is that?

Basically everyone suddenly had the desire to start doing some new job, usually ones they were poorly suited for. It was a... very weird week.

But anyways, Winry is bringing over a housewarming pie. I told her you'd make Stewed Sea Prunes.

I thought you were cooking! Don't you want to show me how you've learned to cook?

...we can find sea prunes here?

Hey, I cook meat, not Sea Prunes. Besides, I'm cooking tonight, not when Winry shows up.

Oh. That's OK, then. Where would I find the Sea Prunes?

At the grocery, apparently. That's where Sanji found them.

Grocery? Like a market? And who's Sanji?

Yeah. If you want, I'll show you where it is.

Sanji... is this guy I know. He's a great cook, but he gets weird around girls. If he goes wild over you, just ignore it. I don't think he's flirting.... I think, anyways.

Weird how?

[She's just gonna hope he doesn't notice her bypassing that offer.]

... you have to meet him. Anyways, wanna head to the store?

Can you call it a store if you don't actually have to buy anything? [OK. Even she knows that dodging attempt was fail.] All right, fine. I could use some stuff for my room anyway.

Great. I'll show you my smithy too. [Sokka grabs his coat, sword, and boomerang. BAM, he's ready to get a move on.]

I would like to see that. [She'll go back into her room and grab her coat and canteen.] Ready when you are!

[And out the door they'll go!]

Man, it's been so long since we ever went shopping with just the two of us. [He pauses and thinks.] Wait, did we ever go shopping just the two of us?

Not unless you count fishing. Or that time I followed you out when you were hunting. You tried to send me back, though, so that definitely doesn't count.

[She'll follow along beside him, close enough to not get separated in case there's a crowd but far enough away so they can both move if they have to. It's instinctive by now. Meanwhile, she's looking around, trying to get the lay of the land.]

Yeah. You know what? We really should get a boat to go fishing in. Besides, fish can't talk if they're out of water. But that's not exactly shopping.

[Sokka doesn't notice the fact she's trying to walk away from him like she's embarrassed or something. GEEZ, KATARA.]

Do they sell boats, or would we have to make one?

[...wait this is the animal talking thing again. Does this mean that they'll be eating talking things, even if they buy them in the store?] So they really... talk? All of them?

I haven't seen any, so I guess we'd have to make one. Also, it's not fair waterbending the fish into a bucket. It's not sporting!

... but yes. They all talk. Or at least I think they do. I don't know if the bugs talk, but they are pretty tiny, so it'd be hard to tell.

What's not sporting about fishing is that we have a brain this big [hand gestures] and fish have a brain this big [holds up her fingers] and yet we still are the ones waiting for them to come close enough for you to spear!

[Ha! She's been wanting to use that one on you for a while, Sokka. And... she doesn't really want to think about talking food, so moving right along.] How far is it until the grocery store?

Hey, it's not the size of your brain, it's how you use it! Besides, fishing with a line is a lot more relaxing than spear fishing.

[And up ahead is the bridge.] Just across that bridge and on the other side of the plaza.

I wonder if they have any planks we could use to make a ship, or if we'd have to cut down a tree...

[And she's looking around, trying to take in everything.] This place is pretty big. It's like a village in the earth kingdom, with the way everything is set up.

It's no Ba Sing Se, though. But, I guess it's bigger than where we grew up...

[Quietly] I guess we should be glad it's not that big, huh?

You said you were back home when you were taken? What was it like? Was Dad back too?

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