savedtheworld | Book 14: Autumn Breeze

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[The day is off to a normal start for Aang, starting with airbending practice. He also spends some of the morning using airbending to play around with the leaves on the front lawn of House 56.

After school, he then spends some time cooking at the bakery. He puts together a mix of cookies, cupcakes and some fruit pies of different flavors, and anyone can pop in while he's working on that. He leaves some at the bakery and takes the rest to the Welcome Center, where he sets them up as treats for visiting New Feathers. He spends some time lingering there to do what Welcome Center-ing work there is to be done. And before heading home for dinner, he takes Appa out for a ride flying in the air over Luceti.]

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[While Aang's at the Welcome Center, he sets up a video. The treats he prepared are visible on a table in the background. Those who met him during the last experiment can probably pick up over the video that he now looks 15-ish rather than 12, although it's easier to tell the difference in person.]

Hello. How is everyone? It's Aang here, and I've got a few things I wanted to say. First of all, isn't it great that it's autumn now? That's like the best time of the year! Does anyone know any fun things you like to do in autumn? I'd like to try out all kinds of new things.

I... also wanted to say something about the way I was a few weeks ago. When I was littler again. I lied and told some of you I wasn't the Avatar, but I really am. I'm sorry about that. [He pauses for a moment.] Other than that... I left some treats out in the Welcome Center to help greet any New Feathers! If you have any questions about this place, one of us there will do our best to help you. I know lots of things can be confusing and unfamiliar in this place. Come to think of it... Is it just me, or is this New Feather cycle going on longer than usual?

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That's kind of a weird rule to have about a birthmark... I mean, I have one too, but I usually keep it covered up.

[And he tugs the collar of his shirt down to reveal a small star-shaped mark on the left side of his collarbone.]

[Aang's about to correct Emil when the sleeve is rolled up. Aang leans over to get a good look at it.]

Whoa! That's really neat. But, my arrows aren't birthmarks! They're tattoos I got for mastering airbending!

You want to play around in leaves?

[Is this an airbender thing?]

Wait, you got a tattoo on the top of your head? Don't people usually get those on their arms or on their back?

[Not that Emil really knows that much about tattoos, but the pictures he's seen in books with pirates and stuff tend to have them on the bicep.]

Didn't that hurt?

And with them! There's plenty of neat training exercises you could do with leaves, too.

[She had already planned on giving most of the treats she had been gathering to Prim. Maybe a few to Richard. Or just leave them out on the counter where anyone in the household could claim them in a free for all.

But... It couldn't hurt to take a few more, could it?]

You don't mind?

Of course not! It's like we were just talking about - we're gonna work on making Prim happy. And let me tell you something. Some of these cookies? I filled with special Avatar happiness powers!

[Even as her grey eyes regard him suspiciously, Katniss finds herself smiling. Special Avatar happiness powers. If anyone has special powers of happiness, it would be this boy.]

Guaranteed to bring a smile to anyone's face?

[If he's making Katniss smile like that, he knows that he has some powers that work.]

Yep!

[He holds up a cookie between two fingers as if it's a valuable coin and winks.]

And they work extra special on people whose names start with "P" and end with "rose"!

[She's not certain if she believes that. If anything, they might work extra special on people whose names start with "K" and end with "S". Not that she'll ever say so aloud. Even if her widening smile is some indication.

It feels good to smile like this. Like it's something she hasn't done in a long time.]

Isn't that unfair to everyone else?

I guess so... Unless you call them "peveryone elserose' instead!

"Neat", huh?

That just doesn't sound all that exciting, Aang.

[That even gets a faint chuckle. It's a mouthful, a name like that. And maybe not all that funny if she thinks on it.

But she appreciates the joke anyway.]

Of course! Have you seen Sokka? Beards aren't adorable. [They're sexy. Big difference.]

[And he chuckles right back.]

So feel free to take your pic.

I will. [She smiles and then, feeling a little impulsive, walks to the other side of the counter to give Aang a hug. Hopefully, he doesn't mind. Hopefully, he understands.] Thank you.

[Um hugs are the least thing he will ever object to. He smiles warmly as he lets her hug him and then wraps his own arms around her.]

You're welcome, Katniss.

They're not? But I'm gonna have a beard someday!

Well I got it on my arms and my back, too! And on my legs! [He raises his hands to show the arrows pointing towards his knuckles.

And then he makes his face at the question.]

Yeah... You could definitely say that! I mean, there's a bunch of techniques like meditation to help it not feel as bad, but I can still remember the sting!

I didn't say I didn't like them. They just aren't adorable. Though, I think they'll still be adorable on you.

And that's good, right? Do you think it'll be handsome, too?

Well maybe it'll look exciting! Come to think of it, you never tried the air gates, did you?

"Ohhh, so each element has a different kingdom. Or, uh, nation. This sounds pretty complicated. How do you even remember it all?"

[You'll have to excuse him, it's just that politics and nations go a little over his head still.]

Because... there's only four of them? It sounds like lots of worlds have a lot more kinds of nations and of elements, so I'm more confused by them.

You will be very handsome, Aang.

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