one death: tragedy / a million a statistic / incommensurate

[roc_on]

Beila gives Dao space. He is extremely right that she's not the best person to be sad about his dead serial killer friend with and that seems to be his principal occupation, so - space.

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[roc_on]

"Aww, thank you! Look, Liqing, it's you." Liqing is not impressed. "She loves it," Beila says anyway. Waft onto bird. Pilot bird to house.

[thinklikethis]

One hugs one's girlfriend round the waist when one is being ferried via roc. That is what one does.

"It took me ages to get it looking like your bird and not just a bird, I'm glad I finally got it to come out well."

[roc_on]

"She's totally identifiable," Beila confirms.

[thinklikethis]

Dao grins. "I feel all accomplished and stuff!"

[roc_on]

Liqing lets them off at Beila's house, receives scritches of the small feathers near her neck, and flies away.

Beila makes Weird Fruit Smoothies and hands Dao one.

[thinklikethis]

He tries it.

"Yep," he says. "That's a weird fruit, all right. It is both weird and fruity."

[roc_on]

"Yeah, it's not bad but she shouldn't have gotten quite this much of it."

[thinklikethis]

"Well, I will help you out by drinking your weird fruit smoothies."

[roc_on]

"I appreciate that."

[thinklikethis]

"Happy to help!"

[roc_on]

Sip. Sip. "You're feeling better, seems like."

[thinklikethis]

"I'm - yeah."

[roc_on]

"That's good."

[thinklikethis]

"Yeah. Uh, how've you been?"

[roc_on]

"Eating a lot of weird fruit. Conventional Avatarring stuff. I read half of a really good book on South Polar history and then lost it on the train and have it on hold again at the library."

[thinklikethis]

"Aw. That poor book, getting lost on the train."

[roc_on]

"Yeah. But it was awful flying weather, so I stand by my train use, I wouldn't have wanted to be late to the memorial."

[thinklikethis]

"The memorial?"

[roc_on]

"It was in the papers that I was involved with finding Sora. In a rather garbled way, but still. And one of the victims' families invited me to the memorial service."

[thinklikethis]

"Oh."

[roc_on]

"One of the others sent me a letter but the funeral was weeks ago, so even if they would have invited me it didn't come up."

[thinklikethis]

"I don't think I read the papers; what did they even end up saying about it?"

[roc_on]

"Republic City police were called to the location of the serial killer, deceased in a conflict with the Avatar, turned out to have been a bloodbender using pyrotechnic equipment, insert about new bloodbending information available on page six."

[thinklikethis]

[roc_on]

"So the usual procedures for ruling out bloodbending in criminal processing have been updated. People are nervous about that but it'll die down."