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eleventh whirlwind. VIDEO/ACTION. BACKDATED TO THE 3RD.
[ Welcome to a clearing a little ways away from House 56. This is the Airbending Gates clearing, and they're sort of visible in the background. There's a few trees, too, and the one nearest Ikki has Soren in it. Ikki's sitting crosslegged, a box on the ground in front of her. Her journal's propped up against something - a rock? It's just not clear - to leave her hands free.
After she's sure the thing is on, she grins. ]
Hey! This is Ikki! I'd say you know that already but you might not because I don't know everyone and anyway it's New Feather season so there are probably lots of people I don't know. I guess those people don't have to listen to this because I dunno if they'd care although I'll answer questions if they want? Oh, not that ANYONE has to listen to this but I mean I know I listen to things that look most interesting to me and this might not look like that to some people. [ As always, this is all in one breath. Her mile-a-minute chatter has yet to change. ]
Anyway! Guess what?? Tomorrow? Is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL ...Not that I mind school, Sifu Raine, Sifu Layton! But that means every day I'll be free! Well except in mornings with grandpa and then sometimes with Rapunzel and Lee and the art club and you know everything else I do but it's still pretty great! I think I'm allowed to be excited about it because that's what you DO when school gets out, right? I mean I never went to a proper one at home because I learned from Daddy at the Island but I talked to some of the kids from the City and I think that's what you do. Oh, and the day after tomorrow is Katara's birthday, which is also pretty exciting! Everyone should say hello to her then, okay?
[ Another pause for breath. Surprisingly, she does actually have to breathe. ...Today is a year since arrival, and apparently that means... ] Today I'm going to share something special with you all. [ That's said as though she's telling a secret, although this isn't at all filtered. ] The secret is inside this box! This box was something Katara and I got, last year. A long time ago! Inside it are very, very special things! Normally I don't show ANYONE it, because that's how you keep secrets, but I'll show you all today. These are my treasures!
...That is, I'll show you if you ask! And then, if you ask, I'll tell you about one of my treasures that you get to see. You have to pick one! And if you pick the RIGHT one, I'll give you a present. [ Because apparently this is a game? Yes, that seems to be the case. ] If you don't get it right, then you don't get a prize!
Oh, and if you're new and listened to all that, you should drop by the school on the fourteenth, 'cause that's the next Art Club meeting and we're always recruiting!
[ Ikki can be contacted about her treasures either in person near the gates or via video. GOOD LUCK, anyone who wants to play guessing games with seven year old children. ]
After she's sure the thing is on, she grins. ]
Hey! This is Ikki! I'd say you know that already but you might not because I don't know everyone and anyway it's New Feather season so there are probably lots of people I don't know. I guess those people don't have to listen to this because I dunno if they'd care although I'll answer questions if they want? Oh, not that ANYONE has to listen to this but I mean I know I listen to things that look most interesting to me and this might not look like that to some people. [ As always, this is all in one breath. Her mile-a-minute chatter has yet to change. ]
Anyway! Guess what?? Tomorrow? Is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL ...Not that I mind school, Sifu Raine, Sifu Layton! But that means every day I'll be free! Well except in mornings with grandpa and then sometimes with Rapunzel and Lee and the art club and you know everything else I do but it's still pretty great! I think I'm allowed to be excited about it because that's what you DO when school gets out, right? I mean I never went to a proper one at home because I learned from Daddy at the Island but I talked to some of the kids from the City and I think that's what you do. Oh, and the day after tomorrow is Katara's birthday, which is also pretty exciting! Everyone should say hello to her then, okay?
[ Another pause for breath. Surprisingly, she does actually have to breathe. ...Today is a year since arrival, and apparently that means... ] Today I'm going to share something special with you all. [ That's said as though she's telling a secret, although this isn't at all filtered. ] The secret is inside this box! This box was something Katara and I got, last year. A long time ago! Inside it are very, very special things! Normally I don't show ANYONE it, because that's how you keep secrets, but I'll show you all today. These are my treasures!
...That is, I'll show you if you ask! And then, if you ask, I'll tell you about one of my treasures that you get to see. You have to pick one! And if you pick the RIGHT one, I'll give you a present. [ Because apparently this is a game? Yes, that seems to be the case. ] If you don't get it right, then you don't get a prize!
Oh, and if you're new and listened to all that, you should drop by the school on the fourteenth, 'cause that's the next Art Club meeting and we're always recruiting!
[ Ikki can be contacted about her treasures either in person near the gates or via video. GOOD LUCK, anyone who wants to play guessing games with seven year old children. ]
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Once upon a time, last year, looooooots of people forget pretty much everything they used to know. They woke up with cards that told them things, too. The cards said some true things, but sometimes they said just plain silly untrue things, too. One of the people who forgot everything was a little girl, and the things she was told were these: Katara was her family, and she had to listen to her. She was HORRIBLY, TERRIBLY allergic to meat, so she couldn't eat any. [ Thank the Malnosso for that, at least. And at the next note, Ikki pulled a face, half-laughing at what she'd actually thought was true. ] Prince Petunia the starfish was an actual prince, cursed into starfish form! [ The last item, though, was another true thing. And she's happy about it, still. ]...And the prayer beads she had around her wrist were a gift from her grandfather.
Another girl who forgot everything wasn't so little. She was tall and pretty, with dark purple-y-blue hair. And while normally she'd know the little girl, she didn't, and neither did the little girl on account of the part where I said they forgot everything which is still true. But one of the things on this woman's card was "you can do amazing things with paper". So she practiced it to see what amazing things she could do, to see if it was true! [ This is said with no small amount of eagerness. This is the climax of the story! ]
And it was! She could fold paper in ways that you couldn't even believe. Unless you went to the last art club meeting, in which case I guess you could believe it 'cause you'd have seen it. But anyway, she was folding paper, and she gave out some of these folded paper things to the people she met that day. One of those people she met was the little girl, and she gave her a folded paper rabbit.
This folded paper rabbit! And the little girl, who was me, put it in her treasure box where it'd be safe forever. Do you know who the woman was?
[ She can tell you if you don't know the person she's talking about, but apparently the guessing-game mood is prevalent today. ]
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[ ...and...your adult-ness is a bonding point, apparently? ]
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[ sorry. she couldn't help it. ]
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[ If only Ikki were from a place where she would have gotten the joke. ]