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Hi. My name’s. Korra. I’m the Avatar.

[There’s an awkward pause before she says her name. The cadence in her words is a bit off, a combination of never using the network before (or not that she can recall) and the unknown expectation of who will answer.]

Some of you may know me, I guess?

[Guh, she hates trying to cover it and just tackles the heart of the message.]

Look. I can’t remember anything since I was ghosted. [Or whatever the hell people are calling it.] Not this city, this turtle, or anyone.

But a doctor said that if I just hang around familiar things and people, even scents, then it might help me remember some things. I just, can’t force myself to remember them. So if you recognize me or know something else that could help I’d be grateful.

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Well, I thought I heard an echo, but it only happened once while you were talking. [Rubbing her chin with her hand, she taps the speaker.]

But not now… weird. I wonder if it’s just mine then.

Possibly. When...when did you hear it, exactly?

When you said your name; Aang, right?

[She’s trying not to stare too much at that arrow tattoo, but it’s distracting.]

Do you know if these can be fixed? [She gestures at the console in general.]

[He nods, but his arrow remains furrowed in confusion, but this time it's less about the console, and more about the past life being projected on the screen in front of him.]

Where did you hear it?

[She opens her mouth to answer, but closes it slowly while thinking back to a few moments ago.]

…It sounded like it was right- [One eye squints and she tilts her head.] right here. Next to me, I guess?

[Her tones uncertain, she isn’t sure how to describe it being in her head.]

So only on one side? In one ear, I mean?

[Aang thinks back to the Swamp, and how that was like a whisper in his ear, but that he felt it deep to his core. It was the same feeling he got when he saw Roku's statue for the first time and instantly knew the other Avatar's name.

A flash of spiritual inspiration.]

[Wanting to answer yes, but not finding the word; Korra just nods slowly. That accurate explanation tears her gaze from the arrow to Aang’s grey eyes.]

It didn’t sound exactly the same as your voice…

[That is something she was reluctant to admit, it just sounded weird to begin with.]

But it sounded close, right?

[Those eyes hold hers for a second before breaking away in thought.]

Maybe. Maybe your having a memory of what my voice will sound like to you when you heard it last.

[No no, those verbs all agree in a rational way. Seriously, they totally do.]

Kinda close, I guess. Can that happen? I didn’t hear it when I met Mako.

[She tilts her head.]

How long have we known each other?

[Of all the questions she has to ask that one. His eyes fall closed and his head slumps forward slightly with a sigh. Why isn't Roku here to help with this?

Oh right, because you severed the connection to the Avatar Spirit when you let Azula get the drop on you, Aang. Nice job with that, by the way.

Aang runs his hands over his face and then looks back up at Korra.]

Here? Not long. In our world...I guess we will always know each other. You...you're my reincanation. I mean, I think you are and it would make sense that you are, given the cycle.

Unless something goes horribly wrong, which...for all we both know it really truly could.

[Her eyes widen at ‘reincarnation’ and her mouth goes slack at ‘cycle’.

She just stays like that for a moment while staring at the younger boy.]

I…have no idea what you just said.

[His arrow furrows. What's the best way to break this down to its most elemental point...]

When I die I become you, and when you die, we'll become someone else, someone from the Earth Kingdom.

Oh, I know what reincarnation means. I mean, how does that even work if we’re here?

Alive.

Talking to each other.

[Maybe you don’t know how reincarnation works, Aang. Really, she has no idea what an Avatar is besides some title and bending elements. Or that people come from different points in time for that matter.]

[Oh great, put the poor kid on the spot why don't you!]

Well...time is an illusion, so it kind of only stands to reason that this makes sense in light of that. Also, I used to talk to my...er our past life Roku all the time back when I was home.

Uh-huh.

So I'm talking to my past life like you talk to yours and we all just have big parties forever, because it’s not really forever since time isn’t real.

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Yes...no....I don't know. I don't know how any of this works, because all the stuff I needed to learn was lost when the Fire Nation...it doesn't matter.

[Fire Nation she recognizes since Mako half that and half Earth Kingdom.]

What did the Fire Nation do?

[He looks up at her with utter devastation in his eyes. He doesn't answer right away, he just holds her gaze with his own. His word choice is succinct, and his delivery near dispassionate.]

They took everything from me, and nearly destroy the world doing it.

[Memories or no, seeing a boy with that kind of hurt is not something she ever wants to see. Her features soften before becoming laden with a pained look from the sympathy she felt.]

I'm so sorry, I didn't know.

[I doesn’t help, but she feels it must be said. Some kind of admittance.]

I’m a firebender.

[It’s muttered, her face still winced at the thought of an entire nation doing something that destructive. Why it felt like it was necessary to mention is because of how closely she feels connected to Fire and how it was the first element she used after apparently losing her memories.]

I know. You're the Avatar. We're all firebenders.

[whether we like it or not... is left unsaid, though heavily implied.]

But I feel it. I know he told me I’m from the Southern Water Tribe, but it’s just something I really-

[She just gestures helplessly with her hands to describe how her very core just resonates with Fire.]

It’s not even something I remember, just something that’s there.

[After a pause, she blinks a few times and looks at Aang.]

We?

[He nods.

Aang never had that connection with fire, and truth be told that lack of connection helps to fuel his fear of it. But Pahtik was right, the Avatar is a firebender and to deny that fact is a lie internally told.

His expression shifts. If she is the next Avatar after him, maybe the ease of which she wields fire has something to do with the difficulty he's had with it in the past...]

I'm the Avatar before you...I think.

Before me, how?

[Now she’s just stumped and it’s not making any sense.]

Like I said earlier, we’re both right here.

…right?

[Monkeyfeathers, this is frustrating. He wasn't anywhere near this frustrating to Roku...was he?]

We wouldn't be if we weren't here. If you were home, I'd already be dead.

[His eyes widen after those words come out. It...it's one thing to know a thing, and it's another to blurt it out that way.]

[Then it clicks. Sort of. Time being an illusion makes more sense when she applies it to being on the turtle, and to what he just said.]

...then maybe I did hear you. But not you-you. The you back when you- died. [Wince.] Because there's only supposed to be one Avatar back home, right?

[It’s an honest question, all of this she’s just trying to piece together from what Mako had told her along with what Aang’s been saying.]

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