5th Floor Common Room - Friday morning

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi is lounging on the couch with a book and a large bowl of popcorn with m&m's mixed in.

Hmmm, salty AND sweet.

The book, oddly enough, is about fighter pilots dogfighting over Vietnam.

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[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

For a second he looked surprised, but he quickly hid it. "I... uh. I never thanked you for the gift you left me a while ago."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"You're very welcome." she said smiling. "Did you like it?"

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

He nodded. "The dragon is a powerful animal."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"I hope it had the right number of toes... Is it possible to meet dragons where you're from? Or are they largely symbolic or extinct or reclusive?"

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

"There are rumoured to be dragons in my world," Zuko said. "I haven't seen one for myself, though."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Shall I teach you some Dragon phrases then? In case you do?"

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

He blinked. "Dragon phrases?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Phrases." Pippi said. "In the language of Dragons."

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

Zuko didn't realise that dragons could even speak. "You understand them?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes, Dragon is my best language besides Monkey. And Snake... And Spider, I'm quite good at Spider... Crows tell me I have a thick accent, but they tend to still be able to understand me."

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

"I suppose that could be handy," he said. If he had a dragon, he would be able to catch the Avatar more easily.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"What would you like to learn to say?"

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

"Don't eat me and let me fly on your back?" Zuko shrugged. He wasn't sure what you were supposed to say to a dragon.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi gave some thoughts as to how to say those two things.

"Okay... For the flying..."
//My intention pure, my hart is true,
My wish, it is to fly with you.//

"And if it looks like it wants to eat you..."

//It looks to me that you'd like to eat
But my kind are not made of tasty meat.//

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

"That's... a mouth full," Zuko said, not sure if he could repeat that.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Shall we record it for you?"

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

Zuko shook his head. "We don't have anything to play recordings with," he explained. He wasn't sure if he minded. Most technology here was weird.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well then, we'll just have to practice it until you get it just right." Pippi said before repeating the first phrase.

//My intention pure, my hart is true,
My wish, it is to fly with you.//

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Or you could just, you know, talk to it," Sokka chipped in offhandedly from across the room. "They understand people-talk just fine."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well I think it's nice to try and learn at least a little bit of another person's language." Pippi said.

"Besides which, Dragon is a much prettier language than English."

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka didn't reply to that; he just sort of grumbled. He had come off sounding like an arrogant jerk, when all he really was trying to do was one-up Zuko.

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

"No one was talking to you," Zuko shot back. He hadn't even noticed Sokka in the room and berated himself for having dropped his guard like that.

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, look. No one still is."

It wasn't much of a comeback, but... he hadn't had time to think of a better one. Yeah, that was it. ZING!

[thebluespirit.livejournal.com]

Zuko tried to repeat Pippi's... sounds, but he didn't think his voice was meant to talk like that. "I don't think I'll be running into a dragon," he decided.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh that wasn't too bad. You just need to practice. Don't give up just because you're not good at it right away."