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 Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:12 pm
Avani first tried not to stare, then glanced around quickly to make sure no one could overhear them. Was this girl nuts or what?
"I think I'd rather do something else, than labor jobs or crime fighting," she said laughing. "I'll leave that to you, I think."
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Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 6:32 pm
"Whatever floats your boat, I guess." Esen shrugged. She found the idea of being a crime fighter absolutely ideal, but doubted that her parents would think it was a very good idea. And they would find out. Oh, they would find out somehow.
"So if you don't do menial labor. What do you do?" She asked curiously. "You don't...You know? You're not a...uhh..." She cleared her throat uneasily. Avani looked a bit young to be doing that sort of thing.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:53 pm
"A what?" she said, knowing what Esen meant, and being offended at the same time. "A whore?" she wasn't so well breed as to even care about saying the word. "Of course not! I never said I didn't DO menial labor, I said I would prefer NOT to."
"And as for that profession, I do know a few in the outer ring, they're not...well, I mean, they do what they have to to survive, don't they?"
"What about YOU then?" she asked huffily. "What do YOU do, huh?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:06 pm
"I mooch off my parents." Esen puffed out her cheeks and exhaled, noisily, as though admitting to such a thing were a massive embarrassment for someone her age.
"You know, I want to get a job as a waitress." She added after a pause. "But, my parents, they don't want me working on anything but learning how to bend solid earth." Esen blew a bit of her chocolate colored hair out of her face.
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Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 9:41 pm
Avani rolled her eyes. Pff. Didn't they ALL? The only person she met who was like her was Petch. He worked too and in some strange way, she respected him for doing what she hated doing everyday.
She looked up at her curiously. "Bend...solid earth?" What in heavens name did she mean by that? "As opposed to?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 11:22 am
"Sand." She answered, as though the thought of sand bending and earth bending being at all similar was absolutely laughable. "You know. Dust. Loose soil. Not rock."
Esen squinted and spoke, "I can't do what they're doing." She thumbed in the direction of the walled off courtyard where one could still easily see boulders and walls of rock shooting up into the air. "But, I can do this..."
Esen planted her feet firmly in the ground, a move reminiscient of earth bending, but then moved her hands in a fluid, cyclical motion - as though the upper half of her body wanted to bend water or air.
She stomped one foot into the ground and a large cloud of yellow dust entered the air, which Esen deftly gathered into a ball with her hands. When she was satisfied with her show, she let the sphere of dirt fall to the ground and land in a pile at her feet.
"Not quite as, uhm, dangerous as lobbing boulders."
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Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:29 am
"You can bend....sand?" Avani asked, her eyebrows raising in disbelief. She had heard about things like that, and others, called plantbenders, but she had never actually though they had been telling her the truth.
The darkhaired bender watched the demonstration with her mouth open in a small O. After Esen let the dirt and dust fall, Avani clapped her hands together. "That was fantastic!" she cried.
"Do you think you'll be able to bend earth? I mean...how is it different?"
She had always thought that bending was bending.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:52 pm
"It's too...um..." Esen grasped at the air with her hands. She was trying to think of the right words to say, but all she could come up with was, "It's too heavy." Unsatisfied with this explanation, she chewed the inside of her cheek trying to think of something better.
"Well, Sandbending...is ...well, we use techniques that look more like water or air bending to move the earth, and since those moves are much less, uh, I guess less sturdy, it's harder for me to lift up solid earth." Esen thought about adding 'and Earthbending is just so ugly', but she decided against it.
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Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 3:02 pm
Avani kicked her heel against the ground, making the ground raise a few inches into a small mound.
"I guess I've never really thought about it," she said, staring into the distance. She looked back to Esen and slowly mimicked the movements the girl had just done, concentrating on the ground. But nothing happened.
"Do you think an Earthbender could learn something like Waterbending? I mean, sand and boulders are connected, in that they're both earth really, but what about a different substance completly?"
She laughed. "But then that could make another Avatar..."
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