Day 266 | Open

[aprettyred]

Who: the red Anna, EVERYONE
Open: Open
When: 266, morning!
Where: Kitchen, donut trees
What: Anna is no longer 11
Format: Log, will follow
Warnings: ... Adorableness?




One of the benefits of being a Strain with the powers Anna has is that she knows things. Most of the time she knew where people were around her, what they were thinking. Sometimes it was about the world.

Like that she had been here long enough, combined with her time in Vatheon, that it should be December 8th again.

Well, for her at least. And it was a little after that, really, but the point was that Anna woke knowing that she wasn't 11 anymore. There was the core hunt, though, and talk of problems and Ura, and so it didn't really come to mind that maybe she could do anything until she spotted the donut trees again.

... Tatara had done something like this once, hadn't he?


Anyone near the donut trees and bushes will find Anna trying to collect a few into a basket. She is, however, a small child, and this isn't going to work very well. Mikoto the larvesta is sort of helping - his wagon is now occupied by a basket, so he's halfway up a tree and... eating leaves.


Or you can miss Anna collecting donuts, and find her having collected them, and sorting them onto plates in the kitchen. Donut breakfast. For as many people as she can. Mikoto is happily chewing through one that looks like Anna grabbed it a little too hard, buzzing lazily.

Comments

[daughterofursa]

Zuko is up bright and early as usual, and like a lot of people, she's preoccupied with preparations for the Ura. In fact, she's cut her usual morning training short so she can spend more of her time getting the ostrich horses ready. She's on her way over to them when she notices Anna by the donut trees.

"Need a hand?" She'll ask what this is for in a minute, but she's not going to bother wondering about the pokemon. When some of them are shaped like keyrings, a giant bug eating leaves is nothing remarkable.

[aprettyred]

Giant round bug. Mikoto really should stop eating.

"A lot of the small ones are very high." Yes, she would like a hand.

And they probably aren't very high to anyone else.

[daughterofursa]

Yeah, Mikoto, think of how many people they could feed with... donut tree leaves...? Oh well.

Zuko was tall-ish back home, and though nothing remarkable here, she can certainly reach more of the donuts that Anna can't get to, and she does so, handing a few down.

"Are you collecting them for the Ura?" One-track mind right now. Mostly that keeps her from thinking about that awkward encounter with Aoi, but considering these are donuts... Well, that might not last.

[aprettyred]

"... Would they still be good when we got them to the Ura?" Isn't that a little bit away? "Don't they get .. stale? ... Unless because they grow on trees, they are magic donuts that don't...."

She hadn't been, by her thought process.

[daughterofursa]

"...I have no idea," Zuko admits. They don't even have donuts in the Fire Nation, much less magic donut trees.

"But why else do you need so many?"

[aprettyred]

"Breakfast for everyone. Or to go with breakfast." Because that's a great idea that makes sense on its own, right?

[daughterofursa]

"Oh." Are donuts breakfast food? Zuko thought they were dessert. "That's nice of you."

[aprettyred]

They are both, and quite amazing like that.

"Thank you."

[daughterofursa]

What is she being thanked for? Being tall?

"Don't mention it. I might have one myself."

[aprettyred]

For telling her she's nice! And being tall.

Zuko that sounds like you want a donut. Anna blinks at her, then goes to her basket and picks a donut out, before offering it to her.

[daughterofursa]

No, that was just supposed to... mitigate the thank you. Because if she has one then she's not just helping Anna but helping herself?

"Oh. Thanks." Awkwardly taking the donut.

[aprettyred]

... too bad, she wanted to feed people donuts.

"Welcome." Mikoto is starting to sound like a little engine, so much buzzing, and Anna realizes that letting her fatbug eat sugary leaves might not be a good idea.

"No more." And now its time to try to get him down.

[daughterofursa]

"Here." Zuko sticks the donut in her mouth to free up both hands so she can gently reach and try to take the giant bug thing down.

[aprettyred]

Mikoto is a warm giant bug thing, and other than a little more buzzing, he does not protest being pulled from the trunk.

"Thank you, again." He was too high up, okay.

[daughterofursa]

Zuko places the bug on the ground and takes the donut from her mouth. "Don't mention it." And then, out of curiosity, "What sort of animal is he?"

[aprettyred]

"He is a pokemon. A larvesta - N says that means he is fire and a bug? And he can turn into a... volcarona. Which is still a fire bug." Anna studies Mikoto, who is still a little jittery sounding with his buzzing.

"... I think he might not need to be so round though."

[daughterofursa]

Zuko is not going to say anything aloud about fattening him up to eat him. Even if she'd never do it, it's probably in poor taste to joke about eating a little girl's pet.

"So, does he breathe fire?" She's a little dubious about that.

[aprettyred]

Anna also doesn't think he would be terribly edible. Although she does give Zuko a look of slight worry for a second, she isn't going to comment on that.

"Little bits. Like starting candles, or fireplaces."

[daughterofursa]

She's not interested in eating a fellow fire thing either, okay.

"Well, maybe he's working up to it."

[aprettyred]

So long as she doesn't try renaming Mikoto into a bug-dish, Anna will not break out the worried face.

Anna thinks on that for a moment, then nods. "Have to light candles, before you can make big fires. Otherwise you can't control the big fires?"

[daughterofursa]

Zuko nods. "Something like that. It's important to master the basics before you can move on to more advanced techniques."

[aprettyred]

"Otherwise you might make too big of a fire and then have no more house."

Yes sure Anna.

[daughterofursa]

"Heh. Yeah, I guess that could happen." She's definitely known firebenders with control issues.

And okay, Zuko was responsible for some fire damage to her own royal palace, but that was during Sozen's Comet. It's not like she had any practice with that level of power before.

[aprettyred]

"Very easy to happen when its FOOSH. Now you have lots of fire." Complete with hands thrown up on the sound effect.

Anna is half talking about what she picked up from Zuko, and half talking about what Mikoto-the-human did.

Don't mind her.

[daughterofursa]

Zuko never really thought burning things down could sound adorable.

"Well, if he ever gets into trouble that way, you can bring him to me, and I'll see what I can do." She's... not sure how well teaching a bug would go, but at least she could put out the fires.