being silly

[noindoorvoice]

Mun!

This place looks big and exciting! Not city exciting exciting or Korra exciting but super amazing exciting! Is there a water slide? Or an adventure? Or snow? Or volcanoes? Or-

[Babbles on for sometime.]

Comments

[deformed]

[ STAY STILL, KID. ]

Who's 'everybody'?

[noindoorvoice]

Me, and Jinora, and Meelo, and Dad. [A pause for thinking but then back to bouncing.] I guess not Gran-Gran or Aunt Kya or Uncle Bumi either. Wanna see a trick?

[deformed]

... Sure.

[noindoorvoice]

Okay just a sec. [A quick look around.]

Look! [Airbending 102: Ikki suspends a marble between her hands and makes it whirl around and around in midair.] See? See?

[deformed]

Wow!

[ Super impressed, that is Zuko right now, eyebrows rising and a O-shaped mouth to complete the look. ]

That's incredible. You have got to be the best airbender I've ever seen, Ikki.

[noindoorvoice]

Really? [Super pride moment.] You like it? Dad taught us a lot and stuff! [Mildly modest.] Firebending can be pretty okay too.

[deformed]

I think I'd have to say I liked firebending the best, I mean ...

[ Holding up a hand, he ignites a tiny candle-sized flame in the middle of his palm. ]

Airbending definitely couldn't snuff this out, right?

[ The glove, kid, it's thrown down. Will you rise to the challenge? ]

[noindoorvoice]

[A gasp.] It can too!

[Very carefully, like her Dad showed her, she first tries a quick small wind gust.]

1/2

[deformed]

[ There goes the flame! Poof!!! He even tries to save it with flailing hands but alas, he just isn't fast enough. ); ]

Oh, no! You beat me, Ikki! That can only mean one thing ...

[deformed]

You're the new Fire Lord now.

[noindoorvoice]

[Oh goodness her brain.]...Huh? Really? Really really? But I can't Firebend and I'm not double digits and I gotta stay home and old old you didn't say so and your family would laugh and then make faces.

Can I wear the pointy crown part and drink juice?

[deformed]

[ Chuckling, he nods. ]

We can definitely arrange that much, we'll put your hair up in a top-knot and get you all the juice you want.

[noindoorvoice]

Okay, then I'll be Fire Lord. Can we have more parades too? Cause we're the fun ones?

[deformed]

Parades full of big dragons and flying bisons? Sure. What's your favourite colour for the fireworks, Ikki?

[noindoorvoice]

Yeah! And lemurs and bright lights and blue fireworks! No pink! No orange! Can they be orangepink or redblue?

[deformed]

You're the Fire Lord, you can have anything you want.

[ He wishes it worked that way. ]

[noindoorvoice]

Lemurs and bison and fireworks and crowns and all that stuff! [And now we have hugs.] I can't wait to tell everybody!

[deformed]

[ dflkgdfkl catching her before she puts his eye out. The sudden contact catches him off-guard. ]

Go for it.