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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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Whatcha got?
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And she opens up the box! DRAMATICALLY! ...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; what appears to be one of the wind-up figures from the cultural fair, garbed in a tiny blue outfit; a pop tab; a red and orange paper flower; a sheet of notes that seem to mostly involve fractions, with tally marks and doodles; a bit of wire the length of a finger, curled up; a scrap of green fabric; a small white shell; a sheet of shimmery pink stickers; a piece of blue sea glass; an origami rabbit; 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. ]
You get to pick one! If you pick the right one, I'll give you a prize and a story! If you pick wrong, you only get a story.
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[They are treasures, after all.]
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Congratulations, Shikamaru, you're the first person who asked that particular question!
Well, she doesn't mind him touching them, so... ]
You can touch 'em but be careful with them, okay?
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Scout'sShinobi's honor.]I won't let anything happen to them, promise.
[And okay, he goes ahead to gently move some things (giving a good glance to the stickers and the fractions) aside so he can better see the crayon drawing. It didn't initially look like something Ikki would draw - not her style, since he's seen her art before - but he wants to see what it's of.]
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[ With that, Ikki sits back, watching closely but not making any move to reclaim her "treasures". The picture is definitely not her style - but the artist might be guessed upon closer inspection. After all, if it isn't by her, then it ought to be by the other person pictured, right? ]
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Can I get the story about this later, even if I don't pick it now?
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Yeah. That's one of my favorites, but no one picked it yet. ...So I'll bend the rules just a little.
[ Ikki's bent the rules for lots of people, honestly. She's easily persuaded to share. ]
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Much obliged, m'lady.
[He moves on, first to the white shell and then the bit of sea glass. The latter he picks up carefully between his fingers before holding up to the sky until it catches the sun.]
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He's taking more time to do this than other people, and she shouldn't really be surprised. After all, no one else asked to look at them up close, either.
That's exactly what she does with the sea glass when she takes it out, in the room she shares with Aang. Sometimes Momo chases the light across the floor, and looks at her sadly when he fails to catch it.
It's a little hard to keep still, geeze. A little easier when she's cross-legged like she's going to meditate, though. ]
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How 'bout this one?
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[ Just checking, here. ]
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[ Pouting, honestly! ...Well, not really, it's always fun to win! Besides, he did do something kind of cool. That story goes with another one. ]
Ready for your story, though? This's a good one. And it'll work with the other one, too.
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Go for it.
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Okay! This is the story about the white shell. And! [ She reaches to pick up the picture he'd put aside, laying that on top of the treasures, putting the sea shell on top of it. ] ...And this is the story of the picture, too.
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. She did that a lot during the day even though some people said there were fountain police which by the way she knows there aren't now on account of they've never arrested her SHIKAMARU.
[ >8C Think about what you've done. ]
...But anyway, 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 - 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 ] - and another birthday party, at the beach, where they collected shells together. [ She taps the white shell. ] ...And other things that the sea washed up. [ The blue sea glass, the second thing he'd picked up.
He'd gotten everything but the flower, the things that meant "Vivi". ]
They even had a big cake together one day! To celebrate how they were best sisters.
...And then one day, it turned out the little pirate girl? Wasn't a little girl, after all. [ Because the OP cast will never be children except to troll Ikki. ] But even though she grew up and remembered she wasn't small, she remembered stuff from before. And the older pirate girl gave the little nomad girl this picture, which she'd drawn when she was a little girl, too. And she said they could still be sisters, even though she wasn't a child any longer.
Months after that, she left, though. But even though she went away, the things she did and said still stayed behind, and that's why these things are treasures!
Know who that was about?
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Seems like it's worked to both their favors. He pulls out the drawing again.]
Blue-haired pirate girl... Yeah, I think I met her a couple times, grown up.
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Yeah, Vivi. She left a few months ago. [ Maybe a bit longer, at this point. ]
Why'd you pick those ones?
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But I do like those ones. Did you talk to Vivi much?
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[ ...Chien came back! It could happen.
She's briefly quiet before poking his shoulder. ]
Hey, want to try one more time? Or do you want to go through the air gates?
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[ SHE NEEDS LITERALLY NO PROMPTING FOR THAT, ANYWAY. Ikki hops up, although she pauses to point at her box. ] And watch that, too, okay?
[ ...That direction given, she'll skip over to the gates. It only takes a step and shoving her palms out to send a blast of air at the gates. They start spinning instantly. With a single glance back to make sure Shikamaru is actually watching, Ikki grins and steps into the spinning gates, her expression going serious as she focuses on following the path of the air. ]
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