The Call

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Jaime Reyes voice sounds over the comm-rings--all of them--and it sounds very urgent.

« Everyone on the ship, listen up! This is Jaime Reyes, your local 'Blowing this pop stand' coordinator and escape facilitation engineer. I need everyone on the ship to come to the City, in front of the Precinct, immediately. Grab people who don't have their comm rings with them--and tell them to grab their comm rings, people who are sleeping, whoever you find, and try to make sure everyone on the ship knows to come. This is very important. This is "getting the heck out of here" important. »

When they arrive, they arrive to find the Command Staff waiting, and a tiny, tiny young man standing on stone ledge from a fountain, waiting for them.

Here goes nothing.

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Re: Gathering

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

Zuko gives him a strange look. "I haven't had any on me in . . ."

He has to count.

"Months."

He looks at the hand - oh yes, he remembers what people do with them here. He still doesn't trust handshakes, but takes Slobo's for a very brief one. It's probably the polite thing to do.

"Prince Zuko, of the Fire Nation. In my country, we bow in greeting."

He puts his right fist into his open left palm and bows.

Re: Gathering

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Oh, like one of those monk guys." Slobo imitates the gesture. "As fer the smell, I got a better sense than most. Can track people in space." He shrugged.

"So, you a fighter? Comin' with us to check out 'the bridge'?"

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

"Not a monk," Zuko corrects. "The airbenders are the monks."

Did the swords and the smell of fire clue him in? "Yes. You?"

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Hells yeah. I been outta commission for a while, and I got back to a place where all my friends were about, but everythin's... fragged up. Like I missed a good chunk of time." He shrugged, then grinned. "But fraggin' a few bastiches will gimme a good workout and make me feel better. Say, buddy, you say 'bender'? This girl I been hangin' with, Katara, she said she's a bender. Controls water." Slobo ponders for a quick moment.

"That's why ya smell like fire, ain't it?"

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

He nods. "Yes. I know Katara. We're from the same world, but different countries."

He pauses before adding, "We . . . weren't always friends because of it."

He's still not sure why they're friends NOW.

[top-teen-38.livejournal.com]

"Well, Katara's good company. And we're on the same team. So we'll probably run into eachother later. Good ta meet ya, Prince. I'm gonna go keep introducing myself to the team." Slobo turned and walked away. "Just know I got yer back out there, man. A team's gotta be like a family that way."

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

"Right," Zuko says, less like he's agreeing, and more like he hadn't thought of that at all. "Like family."

It's a strange sentiment . . . from a stranger.

Not necessarily a bad one.