two whirlwinds. WRITTEN.

[breezing]

Hi! This is Ikki. I'm writing this time. Since people keep asking about mommy and daddy, I drew pictures. And then some of people here who I met and my family here!


This is my family at home! That's me and my sister Jinora, and then Meelo is on Daddy's head, and Mommy and Daddy are holding Rohan. We're all at Air Temple Island there!


This is my family here! We're in a pink place because I wanted to use pink. It's me and Grandpa and Katara and Uncle Sokka and Aunt Toph and Uncle Roku and Uncle Zuko!


And this is everyone I met so far! It's Shikamaru who's super nice and cool and makes really really great shadows, and Nomi and Luke who are like an Avatar but not, and Chien and Soren, who don't bend air, and Vivi, who has the prettiest hair ever!


Also I got a swim suit and an apple and candy and soda and a room in our house, and it's the best best best best house ever!

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[voice]

[breezing]

[ Excuse you, she can keep some secrets. If people ask. And it's impressed on her that it's important. 8| ]

Do you like being a ninja?

[voice]

[endgames]

It's troublesome; not the kind of life I expected it to be, when I was your age. But I love it.

Even if there's a lot of secrets involved. And speaking of that, I need to ask you for a big favor.

[voice]

[breezing]

What kind of life did you expect it to be?

A favour? What is it? I can do it!

[filtered]

[endgames]

[He'll just skip to that, lest he get pulled into a tangent.]

Well see [as he talks (as a distraction) he discreetly sticks up a filter] the stuff I showed you with my shadows was a lot of fun, yeah?

It's okay for you to know, because we get along fine, but that ability is one of the most precious secrets my family has.

[filtered]

[breezing]

[ A precious secret. ] So you told me 'cause you like me?

[filtered]

[endgames]

Exactly. It's definitely not someone I share with just anybody, at least. It's something I have to be careful about.

[It's not like he even showed her the jutsus, but it's still the meaning behind it. And there are people in Luceti who might be able to figure out more from that, after all.]

So it would be a huge favor to me if you were careful with it too. Okay?

[filtered]

[breezing]

Okay! [ Ikki mentally filed that in her box of secrets, few though they were - though they would grow in the coming days - and nodded to herself. ] I won't tell anyone else 'bout your shadowbending. Promise!

[filtered]

[endgames]

Thanks a lot, Ikki. I'm glad I can count on you.

[filtered]

[breezing]

You can! I'm a really really really really good friend!

[filtered]

[endgames]

I can tell that! I wouldn't be surprised if you had a lot of friends back home.

[filtered]

[breezing]

[ ...well. About that. ]

I know all the air acolytes and they're all my friends, but Jinora and Meelo and me were the only children on Air Temple Island, really, and we didn't go into the city too much. Now we've got Rohan, too, though! And Korra came to live with us, and later her friends did, which was fun while it lasted!

[filtered]

[endgames]

[...wow, that's such a stark contrast to his own childhood. Kids out the wazoo by comparison - and there's not even many here in Luceti too.]

No one your own age though, huh? At least someone who isn't a sibling. There's a little similarity in that, I think, to how Katara grew up.

[filtered]

[breezing]

Jinora and Meelo are really fun to play with, so it was okay! Anyway, there aren't too many people my age here, either, huh?

[filtered]

[endgames]

There's a few little girls I know of. Elicia, Yotsuba, Katie... possibly more.

[filtered]

[breezing]

I met Yotsuba! And there's Vivi, she's six.

[filtered]

[endgames]

Is that the girl with blue hair?

[filtered]

[breezing]

Yep! She's really nice and smart and fun!

[filtered]

[endgames]

Aa, she seemed like it. I've only spoken with her a few times.

[...when she was about ten years older. 8|a]

[filtered]

[breezing]

[ ...Yeah, Ikki's not totally clear on that point yet, er. ]

I've talked with her pretty much every day since I got here!

[filtered]

[endgames]

Oh? You know, I don't think she's usually that age... but don't quote me on that, I could be wrong.

[filtered]

[breezing]

How d'you mean?

[filtered]

[endgames]

Sometimes Luceti has a way of making people older or younger, for a little while. A long time ago, for example, I spent a week around your age.

[filtered]

[breezing]

You mean you could be that age again? And we could play together?

[filtered]

[endgames]

It's possible. Only then you wouldn't be able to talk to normal-me.

[filtered]

[breezing]

Oh, I don't want that. I like you!