"Your name?"
"Amber Clare."
"Your gender?"
"Female."
"Your nationality?"
"American."
"Parents nationality?"
"German father, American mother."
"Siblings?"
"None. I am a single child."
"Your age?"
"Twenty?"
The cold eyes of the gray coated man rest on my face, his pen hesitating on the paper. I shrink under that gaze, fearing it for some reason and yet . . . I still want to pass this test. This simple little test and I don't know why it's so important. In fact, now that I think about it, I don't even know where I am . . . who was this man again? He taps the pen on his tablet, sighs, and scribbles something down before continuing.
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"Move!" Aiti shouted down from Appa's saddle. "I'm gonna jump!"
"No your not!" Sesi shouted back. "Just slide down like everyone else!"
"Yes I am!"
Sesi sighed and stuck her hands on her hips. Her baby sister could be so stubborn at times it was ridiculous. With dad taking things into their rooms and mom taking care of her other younger sister, she was left dealing with her mischievous little brother and her dare-devil of a sister.
"Come on, Aiti! I don't want "
"Move!" Aiti yelled again.
"No! Everyone else came down normally."
"Not-uh! Kyra threw up and then fell off . . ."
Sesi sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose
Even though her cousins were here, even though she could show them all the new things she'd learned since she had last seen them, even though she could proudly boast that she knew all the elements plus some. . . Aiti was intently hunting for her Aunt and Uncle.
"C'mon, Momo!" she prodded the little lemur who had taken residence on her pillow. He stirred and blinked his large, bright eyes at her tiredly. "C'mon! It's dark outside. I want you to come with me."
The small animal grumbled, stood, turned in a circle and flopped back down again. She sighed and looked out in the dimly lit hallways. Being the youngest of her siblings and cousins, ma
Katara rested her elbows on the window ledge, looking down and out over the expanse of the game arena where Aang and their daughter played air ball; her baby may look everything like her but she was Aang's daughter through and through. Little Aiti had been his pride and joy since they discovered she could bend air like him. The rest of her children had become her own little army of waterbenders. She smiled, trailing her hand over the bulge in her stomach and smiled. Well, so far, the count was three to one. It could change.
"Yes! Another point for me!" squealed the little girl and Katara looked up in time to see Aang swaying dramatically on