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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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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.

Oh, that had to be a bit shocking when she reverted.

And then her friend Zoro did it, too...

I didn't realize becoming youthful was so popular!

And Perona, too!!!

[ ...ALL THE STRAW HATS AND COMPANY... ]

They all kept going small and then being big again after playing with me!

So what you're saying, Ikki, is that I need to turn myself to eight years old so we can play!

AND Perona!

...Well, I guess if YOU did it, it would be less bad. Those people, I met them all as kids and then it was a lie.

What, you won't even be a little fooled by me?! I'll have yo uknow I was a charming grade schooler!

You'd say your name was Masaomi, though, wouldn't you? So I'd know who you were.

I could go by the awesome nickname I had in middle school.

...Did you really have one of those?

Come on, should you be doubting me?!

Was it Masa?

How did you ever guess?!

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