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[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

Who: Open
What: A festival
When: Um...yesterday? ^^;
Where: Near the tea shop
Summary: Katara has set up a festival of sorts to keep the kids' minds off of their situation.
Rating: G-PG max. C'mon, it's for the kids!
Katara stood back to admire her work. The area in front of the tea shop was laden with warm, summery colors and had a few makeshift stages scattered about. Everything was ready to go as soon as people started arriving.

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[goldenfirefly.livejournal.com]

Stella arrived soon after Katara finished setting up the festival. She smiled and waved at the girl even though she'd never met her before. It just seemed like the polite thing to do, plus, Stella had seen her face around in Luceti before.

One of the stages was big enough to suit her way of story telling just fine. She stepped around the stage and looked over the placements of chairs in the audience, the size of her surroundings, and how much room she had from the stage to the chairs. Once she seemed satisfied with all of this, Stella sat down in the middle of the stage and concentrated, trying to weave together a story in her head. Something that children would find fascinating... As she thought, she allowed her teriques to act out some parts of the story coming together in her head. The little golden firebird would dive through the air and spin around, though it would still stay close to Stella.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

Katara returned the wave as she began thinking about what her waterbending routine would be. Too bad Aang wasn't here, the two of them together could put on an impressive demonstration. She shook her head to clear those thoughts before she got too sad and looked up just in time to see the teriques floating around and smiled.

[turnthebend]

Matt felt like such a toddler walking around with an escort. He didn't even really like being outside that often, but anything was better than that dark room. Who would decide black would be a great color scheme for everything? It also felt like he was being kept prisoner. Mello had his hand in a gloved grip. Why? Of course he tried to wander off instead of keeping within the other's view.

They were on their way to pick up games (that don't exist in Luceti but Mello didn't tell him that yet) and hopefully stop by the clothing store. He slowed when nearing the tea shop. It wasn't the colors and stages that attracted him but the firebird. Magic? Real magic? He started in that direction without saying anything to the person who held his hand.

[cicatrized.livejournal.com]

Not anticipating the sudden change in direction, Mello veered off course behind Matt, and drew closer to the festival set-up. Until, of course, he realized what was going on. Then he stopped dead in his tracks, and was even so kind as to drop the death-grip he had on Matt's hand. No way in hell was he going anywhere near the tea shop, the place had bad karma (or so Mello had convinced himself after the last few misfortunes that occurred on the grounds), and wasn't going to budge another inch.

"Go have a look around, and get that curiosity out of your system." It was only all too apparent that Matt was intrigued by the presence of the firebird. "I'll wait here." Yeah, this definitely wasn't Mello's scene, he'd resign himself to nonchalantly lingering off to the side.

[turnthebend]

Matt looked up at Mello curiously but was quick to take off toward Stella and where the firebird was moving through the air. "How do you do that? Is it like an esper or summon?"

Matt isn't interested in the kiddie stuff. If there was a storyteller simply reading from a book on a stage about baby animals or ABCs, he would've steered clear. Anything that looks like what you see in a video game? Sure, he'll look into that. More freedom. Naturally, he'll keep an eye out for an opening to sneak off.

[ooc: Open to thread-hopping from anyone :3]

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

Katara glanced over at the kid who'd just shown up with a slight smile as she started warming up for her demonstration, leading a small amount of water in a flowing dance around her.

[turnthebend]

He then was distracted by the person swirling water through the air. "Can I learn how to do that?" Matt took a seat somewhere between where the two ladies were performing their tricks.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

Katara stopped the water in mid arc, bringing it down between her hands while she spoke "Not this exactly, it's an ability from my world. But I think you can do something similar with magic."

[turnthebend]

"You can learn magic here? Can you help me?" It's hard to resist the chance to learn something that isn't supposed to be possible, unless it's the typical parlor tricks. This looked real though.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

"I've actually never used magic, so I wouldn't be able to help." She coiled the water idly into and out of a ball as she spoke.

[turnthebend]

"Then what is it that you're doing? It's like the water hopping devices in gardens and theme parks." The ones where children try to catch the water midway and get wet.

Matt looked back toward the blond. Then he leaned forward to continue more quietly.

"Would you be able to cause a small distraction?" A doleful look was directed at her. He was far enough away that he could try to leave without one but hoped she was willing to do something, if only to play along with a child's fanciful games.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

"It's called bending, it's a natural talent from my world."

She raised an eyebrow at his request. She'd traveled with Aang long enough to know kids were capable of some impressive pranks "What for?"

[turnthebend]

"I don't think there's anything like that where I'm from."

He fumbled for a reason. "Ummm... I want to go to the shops and surprise someone." That wasn't a complete lie. They were heading in that direction, and the blond would be surprised if he sprinted off. Then again, maybe he wouldn't be. It was unoriginal, but he didn't have that much time to mull it over.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

"Not surprising."

"What kind of distraction do you need?"

[hotheadedidiot]

Stahn wandered into the festival grounds. He looked around in amazement at what Katara had put together. It was quite spectacular given what there was to work with. Such colors... such vibrancy! Such atmosphere!

When he spotted Katara, he gave a friendly wave.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

*Katara paused in her warmup to return the wave, keeping the water floating in midair with one hand.*

[hotheadedidiot]

Stahn stared, amazed at what Katara was doing. Even Rutee couldn't do that kind of stuff with water.

He ran up to her, a happy look on his face, and said, "Hey! Everything looks great here! You did an awesome job, Ms. ...Umm...

...I don't think I ever got your name."

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

She returned the water to its pouch and replaced the stopper "It's Katara. But I don't think I got your name, either."

[hotheadedidiot]

"Nice to meet you, Katara. My name's Stahn. Stahn Aileron.", he said to Katara, nervously rubbing the back of his head.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

She nodded "You said you could help too, right?"

[hotheadedidiot]

"Yeah!", he cried out, pretty excited.

"Anything you need me to help out with?"

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

"The food still has to be brought out from the tea shop." She gestured toward the vibrantly decorated storefront with one door propped open.

[hotheadedidiot]

"Okay, got it!", he exclaimed, taking notice of the colorful shop very quickly.

He proceeded into the tea shop to complete the objective.

[turbulent-seas.livejournal.com]

Inside the tea shop were dishes of various kinds of food ranging from food resembling east Asian meals to some stuff only people from the Water Tribe would recognise as food.

[hotheadedidiot]

Stahn stares at the dishes scattered on the tables within the tea shop. Some were quite familiar to him; Rice-based dishes, fish-based dishes, and even some other common foods... But some of them seemed truly odd to him. He had never seen anything like it back home. But, no matter. Stahn would probably enjoy it all the same if he ate any of it.

He grabbed two nearby trays, and began loading plates onto them.