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[fateality]

Well, I gotta say, despite all of the little disasters peppering around here, it ain't all bad.

If I got my timing right, 'bout this time of year, I'd have just missed the Harrowing. Don't reckon any of you really know what it is, but it's a little year time tradition where I'm from -- and I'm all too happy to miss out on it.

[He chuckles to himself:] Shame about Snow Day, though, I suppose.

In any case. Thinkin' about it, I was a little curious if any of you were missin' out on some... festivities back home? Or did you dodge a bullet?

Since we have such a colorful bunch here, didn't figure it hurt to ask.

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[twinkle_toes]

[it's a cool name, of course he likes it. but more importantly:]

What'd you mean earlier though? "No thanks"? No thanks to what?

[fateality]

[URGH back to this. C'mon kid.]

Swimming. Can't say that I'm a fan.

1/2

[twinkle_toes]

[he's persistent, ok]

Why not?

[twinkle_toes]

[actually, don't answer that, he's immediately struck by what has to be the obvious answer as to why anyone could possibly dislike swimming. smugly:]

Are you scaaaaaared?

[fateality]

Absolutely not. [YES.]

[twinkle_toes]

Then how come you don't like swimming?

[he doesn't believe that for a second BUT he'll be nice]

[fateality]

Maybe my idea of fun isn't gettin' soaked to the bone. I'd rather take a hot bath than plunge into a body of water.

[twinkle_toes]

[......]

Aren't you still getting soaked if you take a bath?

[fateality]

True, but it's hot and and way more relaxing. Why we still talkin' about this?

[twinkle_toes]

Because you haven't told me why you don't like swimming yet.

[the words are accompanied with a very expectant look. go on, tell him...]

[fateality]

Guess you're just never gonna know.

[NOPE.]

[twinkle_toes]

[wh]

Why not? What's so bad about it? I promise I won't make fun of you if you really are scared.

[fateality]

Look, kid. You seem nice, but this is really not the kind of thing I'm gonna chat about. Drop it.

[twinkle_toes]

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

[he'll get it out of you one day, mister. X(]

Is there anything you do like then, if you don't like swimming?

[fateality]

[n e v e r]

Just about anything else is fair game. Depends on what you got in mind.

[twinkle_toes]

Well....

[hmmmmmmm]

What's your favorite thing to do in the summer then? Do you like building sand castles?

[fateality]

Eh, it's all right. I'm a little old to be doin' that on my lonesome, though.

Sunbathing is nice.

[twinkle_toes]

Sunbathing? But all you do is lie around for hours.

Is that really what old people like to do?

[please never let him get that old]

[fateality]

It's what old people do so they don't go swimming or making sandcastles with little kids.

[twinkle_toes]

Blegh. Remind me never to take you to the beach with me.

[what an awful life. but also!!]

And I'm not a little kid. I'm over a hundred years old!

[fateality]

Fine by me, kiddo.

I'm not buyin' that for a flat second.

[twinkle_toes]

I am! [his cheeks flush red from protest] I spent a hundred years stuck in an iceberg before Katara and Sokka found me!

[fateality]

Okay, sure. I know a kid like that, too, but that doesn't mean you aged at all, now does it?

[twinkle_toes]

What's that supposed to mean?

[fateality]

That you're still a kid.

An' that ain't a bad thing, bein' one. Better than us old folk, right? Or do you wanna argue that you're a 100-somethin' old man?