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[Seeing herself looking back at herself in the little window on the corner of her monitor, Korra gave a stumped look and tapped the little camera lens that the desktop was using. Seeing her huge finger tapping back at her caused her a smile and she cleared her throat. Music can be heard from the speakers.]

Ahem. Hello. My name's Korra, I just got here. I'm the Avatar, but I'm not too sure that means anything here. [She looks both angry and confused, immediately wondering why she just thought of that now instead before.] But anyway, the kedan informed me that I should probably get a job. [Of course it probably sounded a lot nicer when they said it.]

So if anyone knows of a good place to work at, I'd appreciate the help. [She leans forward and puts her forehead in her hand, admonishing herself for not bringing up what she would able to do for work.] Um, I'm a bender, I can create fire and move water or earth around or into just about any shape or form you need? [Ice sculpting crossed her mind. She'd never given any thought to it. Then again she was never too artistic to begin with.] I don't know if fire matters? Burning things doesn't sound a like it'd be in big demand...

Also I'm a former pro athlete! If there's any kinds of sports going on I'd like to get into that! [A smile spreads across her face.] Doesn't even have to be a job, just for fun.

I'm in the Metal Sector if that helps. If anybody's from there we can meet up and you could fill me in a little more about this place? Looks pretty cool to be honest. Oh, and food, meeting at a restaurant would be good. [She stares at her monitor screen with her lips pushed to one side of her mouth.] And any advice or pointers on these things- [She points at the monitor, which just seems like she's pointing at the viewers.] would be welcome too. The kedan gave me a quick once over for it, but I'm not sure that's going to be enough.

[There's an long awkward pause as she looks left to right nervously.]

Yeah, that's about it.

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Uh, hi there Wally. [She's just going stare at his red hair like it's actually on fire for minute.]

Earthbenders can learn to bend the minerals in metal, but I've never learned it. Plastic would be a definite nuh-uh. Just the four elements Water, Earth, Fire, and Air.

So what is telekinesis exactly Mr. Wally?

[ Four elements... All he can think of is alchemy - and he just knows basics on that from the history bits in his chemistry classes. ]

Funny- where I'm from there're at least 117 elements. Hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen - that stuff.

Oh- it's the ability to move stuff with your mind. You can pick things up, throw them around. It's kinda like letting your brain act like another limb.

[ As for that staring, it's not going unnoticed. ]

Do I have something on my face?

That's a lot of elements. [She silently thanked anything and everything that she only had four elements to bend.]

[She scratches her chin and scrunches up her nose trying to figure out her best explanation.] There are some people can bend with their mind, but for everyone else we need to go through some physical motions along while we try to bend. It actually takes some emotional control and yeah, I guess the mind too.

Huh. Sounds a lot more complicated out loud, doesn't it?

[Crap, she got caught.] No, no. Just some freckles. And I've never seen anyone with red hair before.

[ He nods at the explanation of the powers; he can kinda understand that. He's heard of a few people with powers that are connected to their emotions, and it kinda makes sense, right? ]

Not really- I mean, anything can get all wonky if you're not feeling at the top of your game, right?

[ He smirks just a bit, though. He's not bothered - you kinda grow a thick skin about those things after elementary and middle school. ]

You can thank my beautiful genes for that. Got 'em from my mom's family.

Wonky is definitely the right word. So everyone seems to be coming here from different places. Does everyone have fire hair where you're from, or is it a rare thing?

[A pause while she bites her lower lip.]

Or am I making myself seem like an idiot?

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No, no. [ He laughs and waves it off. ]

I'm guessing it's not common where you're from, right? It kinda isn't where I'm from, either. Maybe ten percent of the population, tops?

Not common; more like not at all. Wow, that's even less than the amount of the bending population back home.

Would it be a bit much to assume you're in the Fire Sector to boot?

So that ability of yours isn't just limited to you? [ Interesting that it all stayed in a similar range of skills - powers vary so much where he comes from. ]

Wood, actually. Got myself a nice tree house.

Nope. Benders can bend whatever element goes with the nation they're born in. But not everyone's a bender. [Her head would explode if she got a list of heroes and their abilities from Wally's world. Hee, Wally World.]

Nothing but wood? What about if there's a fire? [So glad she's not in that sector. Firebends more than she waterbends, even though she's from the water tribe.]

Huh, sounds genetic, then... [ But he's not going to start going into that stuff right now. ]

Mm'yeah, just about. And I guess... we might be in trouble. [ It makes him worry about some of his experiments now. ]

That would be my guess. I mean the other two members on our pro-bending team are brothers, but one's an earthbender and the other one is a firebender. [On that last word she diverts her eyes shyly.] Their parents were from different nations.

[Man, she is really glad she doesn’t live in that sector.] So if there’s a thunderstorm and lightning strikes a tree causing a fire…what then? [Of course, she can’t help but think about a horrible situation.] Just no wood sector? There’s got to be a fail safe or something, right? I mean even in my world, which is apparently behind the times, we have waterbenders ready to put out a fire.

[My god Korra, Wally is not the head of the “Wood Sector Fire Hazard and Safety Department”.]

So are there a lot of families that have people with different bending abilities in them? [ It sounds like a blast, ie. chaotic. ]

I bet the kedan have some kind of way of dealing with fires. [ He scratches his head. ] I mean, I hope they do. With how long they've been living here, I figure they must have dealt with fires in the past.

Being a waterbender sounds convenient in that case. Not too many people where I'm from can manipulate water like that, so we have plain ol' firemen.

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