002 - [Video OTA]

[12goingon113]

[Aang takes a slow measured breath before speaking.]

Hi. I'm Aang. I don't know if we've met yet, but...I'm hoping we do.

[He manages a small, hopeful smile that lasts for a fraction of a second. If you blink, you might miss it.]

Chances are good though, that you know some of my friends. General Iroh, Sokka, and Katara. They know a lot more people than I do, and so I want to make sure that all of them know that they went home.

[This is a lie. Aang doesn't know that they actually went home, but he's choosing to believe in the reality that they did. Because the thought of any of them being stuck in the void for who knows how long is...no. They're home. They're just home.]

Anyway, I know I'm not much of a substitute, seeing as I'm no where near as wise as Iroh, or mechanically inclined like Sokka, and I can't heal like Katara, but...I'm still an Avatar and I'd like to help.

So if there's anything that they were doing that you'd still need help with? Or that just needs doing? I'd love to try.

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[ruinsprofessor]

[Of course it is. Half the point is seeing how Aang himself will answer it-- that says something about what he finds important.]

I see. So you have a few set points of rest, and spend the remainder of your time in travel. I take it the sky bison are exceptionally important to you? Do you follow them by land, or by air?

[They sound interesting.]

[There's a pause, and then Raine offers, almost as if in exchange:]

There's a city in my world that floats in the sky. It moves, day by day, though I don't believe it follows any nearly so definable pattern.

[12goingon113]

[He grins again when it's clear that Raine understands.]

They are! They're the ones who taught us airbending, and our tattoos are inspired by their markings. We actually migrate with them. They live with us, and if we're lucky one of them will choose us as a companion for life.

[Woah, a flying city?]

That sounds like something Wan told me about. In his time people live on the backs of Lionturtles, some of which could fly.

[ruinsprofessor]

[Oh. That makes a great deal of sense, actually; their entire way of life was learned from these creatures. Raine looks pleased.]

Lionturtles, hm. I see. Were any of them as large as Tu Vishan?

[Living on the back of a turtle hasn't been a strange idea for at least a year.]

Exire was constructed by people, however. The spirit Maxwell maintains it now.

[12goingon113]

Wan says so, but the only one I've ever seen isn't as big as the one we're on now. But still big. Way big.

[His arms open wide to indicate just how big is big.]

[ruinsprofessor]

[Raine laughs a little, but it's not unkind. She does get the image, fortunately.]

Certainly big enough to support life, then. I see.

Thank you for explaining.