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Hey, Hugo - if you have a chance, I'd like to talk to you about something.

[And then she shuts the book and moves to her evening practice session behind her house. Today is not about how much water she can move, but it is about control. When the wind blows her journal opened, anyone watching can see thin streams of water moving quick enough to cut intertwining with her arms and legs as she works through a form. The pattern of when she splits a stream, and when she adds more water seems random... until you glance above her head. Any time her concentration is broken by a flash of an image, she adds another and another until all the thought bubble reflects are the forms

If you want to interrupt her, give her a minute - messing up and slicing herself with one of those water streams would be painful. While she normally hates to have her practicing interrupted, tonight it's not quite keeping her mind off of things.]

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Kilometers? [Pause, and she sorts through that again, trying to put it in terms she can recognize.] I've met sandbenders before. [They didn't exactly leave the greatest impression.]

Miles? Li? These translations are not exact.

So there is a 'bending' for each element?

Oh, it's a unit of measurement. ((A large sandworm sounds like it could be something like the Unagi, but with sand instead of water...))

[She nods.] In my world, there are four elements. Earth, air, water, and fire. Only the Avatar can bend all four elements, but there are fire, earth, and airbenders as well. ((This image appears briefly.))

[A second at the ground.] I may as well take advantage of this feature...[He sweeps it over his head to his thoughts. An image of a great sandworm (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i6r1kHyLaSY/Rif8LFqE8RI/AAAAAAAAABw/tsUpXbjG7jI/s400/sandworm.gif) breaking the sands. It zooms in to see a Fremen, dwarfed by the worm but riding it (http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_i6r1kHyLaSY/Rif8LFqE8RI/AAAAAAAAABw/tsUpXbjG7jI/s400/sandworm.gif).]

...[Just... awe.]

Wow.

[Derp, this (http://www.thestargates.com/dune/makerhooksENCYCLO.gif) is supposed to be the second image.]

I take it nothing similar exists where you come from?

[Ah, gotcha!]

[And Katara shakes her head.] No, I've never seen or heard of anything like that before. We have dragons, and sea serpents, and the unagi, but when we were in the desert I really only saw buzzard-bees. And people ride them? All the time?

Ai. Well, only Fremen know how. If you do it wrongly, you are crushed or eaten.

Dragons and sea serpents hmm? Elves, dwarves, gryphons and ghosts too?

Yeah, I've seen Aang ride some pretty big things...

...and I know what ghosts are, but I've never heard of those other things.

Someone from your world?

Aang? Yes, he's a friend of mine. He would definitely want to ride that sandworm.

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