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--oh, shoot. Just how do I work this contraption? I knew I should've asked for specific directions... Is it a phone? Or... something... huh?

[ The feed opens up to one confused looking Avatar with a hand paused mid-scratch at the side of her head. Blink blink. She straightens and attempts to clear her throat a bit, but even doing that does nothing to remove the slightly confused frown on her face. ]

So... Keeliai. [ how does i start conversation to people she isn't even sure she might be speaking to ] It's... a nice looking place, I guess. I have so many questions, but I think I should start off with...

What next? I mean, if anyone's got any helpful suggestions on how to deal with this place, I'd be all for it. Really!

[ Pause. ]

Uh-- oh, right! The name's Korra. It's nice to meet... whoever'll be answering this message. I hope. Ugh.

[ She's making a fool of herself, she knows it. ]

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There is no 'next' for those who have ascended.

[ What the heck is that supposed to mean-- ] You think so? Because I think just being here can be considered something 'next' for us... [ You... weird red panda looking thing how are you talking ]

[It is MAGIC and air, Korra. This is how he speaks, and how his ear twitches a minute amount.]

Yes. Ascension is the 'next' step that we take from the physical existence, but it is the final and most important one. Having completed it, you have attained all there is and become one with the universe.

... Uh, I don't feel any different from when I was, er-- actually "alive," you know. Don't you?

[ Hi, Shifu. Meet Korra's non-spiritual side. ]

[Korra's non-spiritual side, meet Shifu's raised eyebrow.]

Yes. I feel... [He takes a deep, calm breath.] ...at peace.

[ Beat. ] Y'mean you feel alive, right?

[Y'know, it's hard for his eyebrow to raise higher, but it happens.]

I feel as one with the energies of the universe. Whether I breathe or eat is merely a habit from my prior time.

[What is this 'alive' you speak of? HE'S TOTZ ASCENDED AND IT MEAN SOMETHING DIFFERENT.]

[ You are getting the strangest looks ever, red panda man. ]

... Does that mean you didn't need to eat and breathe back home?

[ She will break through that calm exterior, Shifu. Whether through irritation or something, she will break through you! ]

[An ear shifts -- it is close to twitching at that blunt comment, but. No. Inner peace is his.]

It is possible to survive for many years on dew and meditation. [He looks at her.] Is this not so where you began?

Uh, no? You sound like one of my teachers, Tenzin, in fact. Except he actually did more of the eating and breathing, as well as the meditating. Think you'd two would get along.

[ Grin grin. ]

And what does he teach you?

[Sarcasm?]

[ Totally flies over her head. ] He's teaching me how to be patient and how to airbend-- er, that is, teaching me how to move the air itself, since I'm supposed to learn that sort of thing.

[ Finally getting that most people might not know what the hell she's even talking about unless she elaborates. ]

[Bending. The sarcasm lessens.]

You are one of these bending masters?

Uh... I guess you could say that? I've already mastered water, earth, and firebending. Airbending's the only thing I need to nail down before I complete my training.

[Multiple forms of this strange bending technique, hm. Shifu has heard of this.]

So you are, ah, this Avatar I have heard stories of? You seem quite... [UM. Cough.] Young.

[ Arching a brow at that reaction. ]

Yeah, and? The previous Aang was a few years younger than I was when he saved the world with his friends! Once you're born the Avatar, you just... are the Avatar!

Yet, you require training by this Master Tenzin?

[OH-HO, WHAT WAS THAT?]

[ She blinks. She... doesn't get what he's trying to imply with that because she didn't have any problem mentioning that earlier. ]

well, yeah. He's the only airbending master left. That's how it was for the previous Avatars, too; there was a master around to properly teach them the different bending arts.

This is... strange. [He mutters it more to himself.] I had assumed it a role of a master of masters, not that of a pup.

[Or a panda. OH, GOD. KORRA IS PO, THE DRAGON WARRIOR?]

A "pup"? Are there seriously no humans where you're from, little guy?

[That draws Shifu out of his thoughts and he frowns.]

Of course not. These hairless apes that you call hoo-mans are impossible in China.

[Seriously. The idea seems ludicrous to him. No fur! One would freeze in a heartbeat.]

Then... for the record? I've never heard of this "China," either. [ Pause, thinks on that. ] I... guess that really shows we're both from different worlds, then?

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