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[ Hey, these are just things that happen to everyone. Waking up with wings in unknown barrier-surrounded nature, finding one of your children playing in the fountain perfectly at ease and getting the majority of your information from her. Very fast-paced, quite nonsensical seeming information at that.

Luceti, thus far, could not make any less sense. This probably shows on his face. Which, depending on Luceti citizens' art recognition skills, may be somewhat familiar. The odds are... what they are.

Tenzin is grateful for the little communications crash-course Ikki so happily provided, though. He passes on writing out a message in pink marker, though. The journal will catch the end of this conversation before he diverts attention to the pages again. Clearing throat and 3, 2, 1. ]

Jinora, if you can hear this, respond immediately. Korra, Asami, the same applies to you. I've found Ikki- [ If the featured airbending child securely latched onto his neck is anything to go by, of course. And the 'please' after that "same applies to you" is implied, all right. ] I would like to make sure everyone else is all right, and hear about what's happened.

[ You know, to see which elements corroborate with what he heard of Ikki's experiences. Especially regarding who she's been staying with. Which he'll be seeing for himself in person later, of course, once his daughter goes through with all plans to march him to Avatar House like a new pet. So there's that much. ]

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[ Tenzin steps back in turn, clearing his throat.

Quite awkward. ]

Thank you.

[Probably for the best, old man. She wouldn't give you a real answer, anyway. She won't give anyone a real answer right now.]

...Yep, things probably couldn't get much worse.

[A small and light 'hah' comes out. Yeah right, he doesn't trust that for a moment. Tenzin may be a pacifist, but Tarrlok knows he isn't someone the airbender likes. Even before everything that happened.]

How very gracious of you. A pity no one else will be likely to share your sentiments. [Well, maybe Korra. If only because she's from a couple months prior to everything that had happened. But that is a large maybe.] Either way, this place is no good from what I've been gathering. It's an experimental enclosure and we're the lab rats.

So I've heard. I'm interested in finding out exactly why we're all here. [ This has big, dramatic, complex backstory written all over it. ]

Things do have a way of seeming like that in unfortunate circumstances. But they can also improve in ways that we don't anticipate. Though of course waiting is difficult. [ Nothing lasts forever. It's one thing that's absolute fact no matter where you go. ]

[ Fffff, Aang, don't you know being eaten is no joke.

His daughters learning from their grandfather, though. Now that is something nearly enough to make up for this Luceti being whatever it is. They must have been thrilled. Tenzin is not typically inclined to smiling, but he can manage warmth well enough without anyway. ]

Thank you.

[Well. This calls for ~exposition time~!!!

...except not because Tarrlok doesn't really know that either. Time to go with a 'no duh' answer.]

Experimentation, of course. That is the obvious answer if we have been kidnapped into a place where experiments are run on us. They have their own agenda and use us to test their procedures ahead of time.

[Sorry, Tenzin, but she's going to respond with a rather unpleasant-sounding groan.]

Oh, great. You're one of those advice-y philosophical types, huh?

It was my honor and pleasure, honestly. Even if we didn't know them before this... they're still my family, after all. And they have to be prepared in case of emergencies.

That much is true. The potential for danger is anywhere, but Luceti is an exceptional case even then.

[ Ah, Toph Bei Fong. ]

Apparently. I've found it more useful than not.

And their goal in this experimentation? Their reasoning? [ This is far from something one does senselessly. It couldn't be on a whim, he doesn't think. ]

So you've gotten some idea of what this place is like. Honestly, things can get really horrible here. It was really bad just a few weeks before all of you started showing up. But at least things are kinda peaceful for right now.

How should I know? [His voice grows harsh, but still even tempered. Just like the good ol' days, right Tenzin?] They have an agenda and they aren't keen on sharing it! Don't expect them to communicate with you either. Whatever they are up to it can't be any good. They've especially kidnapped many of us in the same short period of time and have the indecency to take children as well. We aren't safe here.

[A bit cold? Possibly, considering two of the air nomad's children are here. But this is him trying to be helpful for once. But old ways do die hard.]

I've heard people randomly fall in love with other people here for no reason once a month.

[How is that for strange?]

[She briefly lowers her head with a soft chuckle.] Good afternoon. I thought I would ask you the same question. You've just arrived recently, haven't you?

Well I have been here the longest. Of people from our world, that is. So I am kind of a good go-to person for all the important stuff in this world.

That is the most polite way to put it. Between the experiments, the cultural clashes, the time inconsistencies and the people who return from the dead...

Oh! And you have an arrow! [Combing through her memory for what Ikki told her that meant.] So you're a...master! [Something like that, anyway.]

...did it hurt to get a tattoo on your head?

I guess so. Positive attitudes and all.

[You'll have to forgive her for not feeling all that positive at the moment.]

[ Not awkward at all, you mean! ...For one third of the party.

Ikki's used to her father's height, and settles for dangling off his arm. It's more odd for her that Meelo and Jinora aren't also around and hanging off of Tenzin. Mostly Meelo.

She's watching the adult exchange with interest. ]

[Like many of the others responding, Ven happened to meet Ikki and see her drawings of her family. And since Ikki decide to make Ven her brother, it only makes sense for him to say something or other.

So, here, have a blonde, almost-seventeen-year-old on the other end here.]

Wow, there sure are a lot of people from your world showing up! Hopefully it hasn't been too much to take in.

[After all, Luceti is... its own brand of special.]

[Katara takes a deep breath and sets her shoulders resolutely.

And then she turns her attention to her granddaughter.]

Ikki, your dad and I need to talk for a few minutes by ourselves. Where would you like to go?

Unless there's a council he can get elected to I don't know about yet, I don't see why we wouldn't.

It's something to be grateful for. If things take a bad turn, we'd do better to face it together. [ At the very least, he'll take bad turns here over not being aware that his children are even gone. ]

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