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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. ]

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I don't think so! So far two people guess right on their first go, you know! You shouldn't give up before you even try...

Wanna give it a shot, Masaomi?

Sure, sure. Give me a shot.

Okayyyyyyy!

[ She has to flip to video for this to work. There's a moment of quiet before she does that, though, rearranging her treasure box before she switches over, and then she turns the box to face the journal.

And she opens up the box! ...To a collection of miscellaneous items that make nearly no sense without context. Some of it is in fact rubbish by most standards. A bit of torn gold paper, which seems to be a candy wrapper; a torn piece of a bag from the bakery, with the logo on it; a pop tab; a sheet of notes that seem to mostly involve fractions, with tally marks and doodles; a red and orange paper flower; a bit of wire the length of a finger, curled up; a small white shell; a piece of blue sea glass; an origami rabbit; a sheet of shimmery pink stickers; two folded paper birds; various halloween-themed stickers; beneath all of it is a crayon picture, not drawn by Ikki herself. There are dozens more little keepsakes in there, but those are the most obvious ones, nearest the top and visible. ]

Ask about one! If you ask about the right one, you get a prize. If not, you just get a story!

Maaaah, I don't even know the criteria for "right" here.

[And he sighs, leaning forward on his chair to look at it all.]

How about those tally marks?

That's the fun part!

[ It'd be too easy if she just TOLD him what the right answer was!!

And Ikki makes a show of thinking about his answer, before... ]

NOPE! Wrong!!!! You loooooose. But you win a story anyway! Ready to hear it? It's the story of the notes!

-Argh! I lost...! But fine, I'll hear it!

Okay, here it goes! This is the story of the notes.

Once upon a time, last year, there was a little girl who went to another magical world. When she got there it was hooooooot and sunny, and everyone went to the beach 'cause of a party, and that was pretty fun! Actually the whole first week she got there was basically parties 'cause lots of people had birthdays, which was good! But her grandparents, who were adults who were a lot younger than usual, decided that she shouldn't just go to parties and stuff 'cause that would probably be bad for her. Although back then she didn't have a sweets limit like she would someday, or rather she had two per person per day which was more than two overall per day and stuff, which was more fun but also I guess wasn't good for her 'cause her grandparents said it wasn't.

[ Is she derailing her own story with a commentary on her sweets intake? Maybe so. ...Getting back on topic... ]

Anyway. Because they wanted what was best for her they decided to talk to a lady who was their friend. This lady was really nice and pretty, and was in charge of the school in the magical land! And they asked the lady if she'd maybe tutor the little girl so she'd be ready for school, 'cause she'd only been homeschooled before she got to the place, and she didn't know some of the stuff 'cause it wasn't taught there or didn't exist at home.

So until school started, the lady and the little girl did these classes together. And then when it did start, the little girl was in the lady's classes!

These notes aren't from that, though. They're from a little while ago, once upon a time - or is it twice upon a time if it was already once upon a time? Okay, so twice upon a time - when everyone grew biiiig wings and the little girl asked for help with fractions 'cause fractions aren't that fun. And since the lady was nice and smart, she said yes!

These are the notes from that time, and they say lots of helpful stuff and also are kinda the first time the little girl got a lot of fraction problems right. So they're a treasure!

[ Apparently...

Ikki beams at Masaomi, though, apparently pleased to have shared all that. ]

D'you know who that story was about?

[Hah. He ends up leaning on a hand as he listens, and when she finishes]

That's easy, it's Raine-sensei.

[ It's amazing people listen to her tl;dr sometimes - though at least it has the benefit of being fast. ]

Right!! That's how I met Sifu Raine, and that's why this is important to me!

Aaaaaaaand that's why you were wrong!

Yeah, huh. [He thinks back to what he saw in the box at a glance. It's possible his memory is failing him. If this has to do with how she met people, to win he probably had to guess how she met him, right? But what on Earth of those would be associated with him]

[ Ikki very helpfully grins at the journal, apparently enjoying having stumped him for the moment. ]

Toldja it was hard!

Yeah, I can see that. I'm surprised other people have gotten it.

Grandpa got it wrong his first try, too! Well, he knew what story went with the one he guessed, but...he got the wrong thing.

Sheeh, make me feel like a heel.

[A sigh, and] How about that flower?

Why would you feel like a foot?

[ IMPORTANT QUESTION. ]

Aaaaaaand nope! But I like this story a lot, if you wanna hear it!

Sure, I'll take it.

[IGNORED]

...Wait, but why do you feel like a foot? That's weird! Are you going to dress like a shoe?

[ DERAILED. ]

If I did, don't you think I could pull it off?

[He rocks back in his chair now, grinning]

I dunno, I guess I'd have to see it to say? But how would you do that?

Tell you what, Ikki. I'll tell you after that story.

Okay, okay! This is the story about the flower.

Once upon a time - [ because she knows how to start this sort of thing ] - last year - [ ...sort of. ] - there was a little girl. ...Actually, there were two little girls! One of them had been in a magical world for a while. The other one just got there, when the story starts. Um...we'll call them a little nomad girl and a little pirate girl.

[ Because MYSTERIOUS!!! is important, not that it isn't blatantly obvious what she's talking about here. ]

The little nomad girl woke up near a fountain, when she got to the magical world. It was a really pretty fountain - in fact, it'd only get prettier later on 'cause they'd paint a mural around it a little after she got there, but that's not this story. In this story, she was playing in the water.

One of the people she met when she was playing was the little pirate girl. The little pirate girl had blue hair like the sky, and she asked the little nomad girl about how she bent the air, and the little nomad girl asked the little pirate girl about her world, too. They talked for a long time and played together and decided that even though neither of them had their families there - or, well, they had families, but the nomad girl didn't have her sister or her brothers or her parents, and the little pirate girl didn't have her father or her duck - they had families that were taking care of them. And they could be sisters!

[ Best sisters! Ikki's smile goes softer, but she keeps talking in the same animated fashion. ] They did a lot together. There was a birthday party at the beach, where they collected shells together, and other things that washed up. And a cake, made by another pirate, to celebrate knowing one another.

And there was another birthday party - not for either of them, but for a lady who grew oranges - with pinwheels, and paper flowers. [ she touches the orange-and-red paper flower in the box, with a grin ]

The little pirate girl made this flower for the other little girl, in red and orange because those were the colors she - I - always wore! This is a present from that time.

Did you know the other little girl?

[Huh...] Not by name, but she's that friend on Nami-san's. She was a real looker.

Vivi! It's Vivi!

Vivi! Vivi-san! That's the name!

Right, Vivi! She was my age for a long time, and we were good friends.

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