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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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Let me see if I got this straight: you can manipulate water, fire, earth...and yet, you end up in the Metal sector? How does that even work out?

[Granted, she knew there was probably more to the housing assignments than powers alone, but it was an interesting bit of trivia.]

Yeah, maybe because I have a lot less things to manipulate? [Recalling the incident when she first arrived in Republic City she gives a somber tone.] Maybe it's not such a bad idea. Not like anyone could teach me to metalbend anyway. But it is pretty neat here. I mean, you can condition the air.

Without airbending! [This is the most important thing in her life right now.] Which is also a good thing since my airbending is kind of...unrefined.

Why, what sector are you in?

Wood.

[There was a lot of information in that ramble. Water, Fire, Earth, and Air? Pretty impressive in its own right. No matter how 'unrefined' she claimed the latter to be. The surprise about air condition also made her suspect they were dealing with a major time discrepancy.]

Just because you're allocated to one sector doesn't mean you can't explore the others, though. Fire is one of my favorite hot spots, actually. [Zatanna, stop] And Water's pretty cool, too.

Fire's hot and Water's cool? I never would have guessed. [Good humor isn't just an ice cream.]

Wood sounds pretty popular, you're the second person I've talked to from there. Do they have neat things like in the Metal sector? I saw a store that was selling a musical one of these, [She taps the screen of the monitor. only they were this big. [Her index finger's touching the thumb on the opposite hand and vice-versa.]

I mean how do they that! My radio was kind of heavy, you know?

[Snap]

That's because Wood's the place to be. We have treehouses and everything.

[A musical...oh!]

Welcome to the Wonders of Modern Technology. It's like magic, only not quite.

I could really get used to this modern stuff. Not that there's anything wrong with our igloos back home. [Her parents can't hear her, but better to play it safe just in case.]

Aren't you scared it might catch fire there?

You live in an igloo?

[Jack would love this girl]

I bet you're not the first person to ask that. Fortunately, whichever genius who decided Wood and Earth should be on either side of Fire seemed to take some precautions. When it comes to the flames, you'd have to actually stick your hand straight in their to be in any danger.

[The sector itself, however, was another story altogether.]

Igloos can be pretty comfortable. I made my own when I was a little kid, it was my first waterbending project and helped me with ice.

Fire that doesn't burn sounds a little weird. Okay, it sounds really weird. I'm starting to think Metal isn't so bad, but maybe Water would have been better. [She gestures simply at her blue clothing, blue wrist bands, and blue arm band.] Being a Southern Water Tribe girl and all.

[Southern Water Tribe would definitely explain the Igloo]

Yeah, I never fully got the assignments, either. My next door neighbor is pretty big on the snow and ice too. I would've figured he'd be put in Water. And I always figured I'd either be assigned Earth, since i"m a Taurus, or something like Fire.

You really have to see the flames for yourself. It's like magic, and I don't throw that word around lightly.

I never even met my neighbor yet. [She taps her fingers thoughtfully, just who was living next to her anyway?]

Maybe I can check out the Fire Sector when I go out to see what jobs I can do. Need juulan somehow, right?

But hey, you could always move right? I think I heard something about that.

You will.

I have two. One on either side. They ended up becoming some of my best friends on the whole Turtle.

[And then some.]

Yeah, you can move if you really want. Some people like to Sector Hop depending upon where their friends from home end up.

A friend from home would be pretty welcome. Guess I could understand the sector hopping in that case. I'll probably meet them soon, after I get used to my new home. [Korra's still freaking out about having a pad; the good kind, not the bad freaking out kind of way.

So what's your name?

It definitely makes the whole congratulations-you're-trapped-on-a-giant-Turtle news a little easier to bear.

I'm Zatanna.

Wow, that's a pretty cool name. But don't worry, I won't try anything. I'm pretty attached to mine.

And yeah, shell-dom is turning out to be a little bit easier than I would have ever guessed. So did the kedan give you a job?

Uh...thanks?

[The 'cool' part, she got. It was the rest of the sentence that had her momentarily confused.]

I had two, but got fired from one a few weeks back due to extreme prejudice. Long story.

For the moment, I'm working in a little magic shop on the sector's edge.

Wow, that sounds horrible. My world was dealing with some major prejudice recently too. [She can empathize with Zatanna on that one.]

So magic huh? I've seen some card and coin tricks. What other magic-y things are there?

Oh, great. You'll probably feel right at home, then.

[Don't mind her sarcasm, Korra. It's not directed at you.]

All kinds of magic. Flight. Teleportation. Transformation. Healing. If I have enough power to supply the spell, I can do it.

Nothing says 'Welcome Home' like 'Go back where you came from', right? [Sarcasm is one of the few languages Korra is fluent in.]

Whoa, whoa. Stop. [Her hands come up suddenly to stop the existence of magic hitting her brain all at once.]

You're telling me there's real, real magic? You can do all that??

[Fabulous. They'll understand each other perfectly.]

I can.

But isn't that what you were talking about before? With the elements. That sounds like pretty routine spells to me.

Bending isn'y magic. Benders are just born with a connection to their element, an earthbender is gifted with the earthbending that the badgermoles created.

It takes a lot of training to get the physical movements down and the concentration. Magic is- wow. Magic is- I mean what was that? Transportation, Flying, and stuff?

Yeah, bending is pretty far off from magic.

Not as far as you think.

I was born with the ability too. I inherited it from my parents, but it took a long time of training with my dad before I could use any spells properly.

Magicbending. Has a nice ring to it. So you sell your magical services then, not magical thingies?

[Magicbending. Nice. It actually had a pretty good ring to it.]

A little of both, really.

I mean, I'm not exactly fluent in divination, but any magician worth her trade knows the basic of tarot card reading. The store itself is mostly for supplies. Herbs. Charms. That sort of thing. And I enchant them for an additional fee according to store policy.

Okay, there's no way I could enchant anything with my bending. I know this is a dumb question and I know the answer is no, but, can you magic food?

I can use magic to cook. And I can summon things if I know where to get them. Creating something out of nothing is a little harder than that, though.

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