Okay!! [ Ikki half-hugs Aang back, but - well, her stories involve a lot of hand gestures, okay. ]
Once upon a time - [ Because that is how all stories start. She's learned that here! ] - there was a little girl who lived on an island with her family. On this island there was a temple - or really the whole island was a temple. It'd been made a long time before she was ever born by her grandpa and his friends, so that she and her daddy and her mommy and all the nomads they lived with would have a place to live and grow.
It's called an island and it is but really it was in a harbor and the mainland was right there. And what was also there was anther island. The little girl and her family could see it from their home, and it was a huuuuuuuge memorial statue. Once when she was learning how to ride a glider they flew over to it even though daddy said we're not supposed to play on the statue and to get down from his daddy's face, but that's not this story.
That statue was of the little girl's grandpa, who she hadn't got to meet on account of there was a new Avatar before she was ever born. But he was everywhere on the island 'cause he built it, and everywhere in the city 'cause he and his friends helped build that, too. But even though that was true, whenever the little girl's uncle and aunt and daddy and grangran would tell her and her sister and brother stories about him, or when her sister would read stories to her at night, she still wanted to meet him someday.
And then one day she woke up somewhere different! After a lot of other stuff that really doesn't matter right now 'cause that'd take FOREVER and long stories can be BORING sometimes. The place she woke up was sunny instead of cold like grangran's place, and she was near a fountain, so she did the smart thing and played in it! And when she was playing in it, she bent air 'cause that's how you play 'cause it's fun.
When she bent the air someone else saw her and came over, and although she thought he was an actor at first on account of everything, she figured he was her spirit guide after he said who he was, and he took her home and got her an apple and took care of her for a long time!
These beads are from one of those times, when she had nightmares about... [ Urgh. She still doesn't like talking about that, even though there's been a year of memories not related to Amon. ] ...stuff that happened to her at home. And when she heard about someone she knew dying. And he said as long as she had them on, they'd keep her safe.
[ The serious look fades into a grin. ]
And they have! He has. And that's the story about the prayer beads, and you and me.
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Once upon a time - [ Because that is how all stories start. She's learned that here! ] - there was a little girl who lived on an island with her family. On this island there was a temple - or really the whole island was a temple. It'd been made a long time before she was ever born by her grandpa and his friends, so that she and her daddy and her mommy and all the nomads they lived with would have a place to live and grow.
It's called an island and it is but really it was in a harbor and the mainland was right there. And what was also there was anther island. The little girl and her family could see it from their home, and it was a huuuuuuuge memorial statue. Once when she was learning how to ride a glider they flew over to it even though daddy said we're not supposed to play on the statue and to get down from his daddy's face, but that's not this story.
That statue was of the little girl's grandpa, who she hadn't got to meet on account of there was a new Avatar before she was ever born. But he was everywhere on the island 'cause he built it, and everywhere in the city 'cause he and his friends helped build that, too. But even though that was true, whenever the little girl's uncle and aunt and daddy and grangran would tell her and her sister and brother stories about him, or when her sister would read stories to her at night, she still wanted to meet him someday.
And then one day she woke up somewhere different! After a lot of other stuff that really doesn't matter right now 'cause that'd take FOREVER and long stories can be BORING sometimes. The place she woke up was sunny instead of cold like grangran's place, and she was near a fountain, so she did the smart thing and played in it! And when she was playing in it, she bent air 'cause that's how you play 'cause it's fun.
When she bent the air someone else saw her and came over, and although she thought he was an actor at first on account of everything, she figured he was her spirit guide after he said who he was, and he took her home and got her an apple and took care of her for a long time!
These beads are from one of those times, when she had nightmares about... [ Urgh. She still doesn't like talking about that, even though there's been a year of memories not related to Amon. ] ...stuff that happened to her at home. And when she heard about someone she knew dying. And he said as long as she had them on, they'd keep her safe.
[ The serious look fades into a grin. ]
And they have! He has. And that's the story about the prayer beads, and you and me.