a drop

[breezing]

Hey, guys! It's Lucy here. Anyway, it's been a while coming (I admittedly had to scramble for the past two AC checks, which isn't kosher) but after two years in the game I'm going to be dropping Ikki - and thus Luceti as well. This was the absolute best place - and the absolute best cast! - that I could have picked as a starter to Dreamwidth (since this was my first Dreamwidth rp) and I will never regret doing so, and I'll miss you all a lot, but.

If you would like a letter from Ikki, comment here letting me know and I'll see to it - you may also get willed one of her "treasures", depending. Soren, for his part, is going to go to Raven due to Raven's strong CR with both Ikki and Soren.

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If there are any ongoing threads of ours that you would like continued to finish, please let me know which ones those are and I'll make sure to see to that as well.

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[savedtheworld]

I would love a letter if you could manage it.

[breezing]

[ Aang should find two letters; one indicates what letters should go where with what items if necessary, and one with his name on the outside. It's flower stationary he's probably seen before, with various doodles around the edges of Soren and Appa and Momo. It's clearly not all been written in one setting, although the handwriting is Ikki's nearly-nine style rather than any from her first year in Luceti.

He's supposed to get her set of hollow balls that will whistle at precise pitches if she moves them around with airbending, and also have tuned chimes inside (Loki, handmade, Ikki's 2013 birthday), since he's the only one who can use them. Also the five small wind-up figures of Ikki's family, Ikki's 2013 birthday present from Asami (these are much more detailed and finished than the ones in her toy chest). ]

Grandpa,

I dunno why I'm writing these except that people have been going away the whole time I'm here and I've gotten things from people who left. Letters and presents and memories. I dunno if they help or don't, but I like to keep them. All the letters are in the chest we picked out together. You're allowed to read all of them if you want, if you read this. And my diary, too, but you can't share anything I wrote there ever. Only you and Katara can read it. And you're not allowed to get me in trouble for any of the times I sneaked snacks if you read it.

I guess if you read it you can't get me in trouble for them anyway, unless you read my diary when I'm still here, but I don't think you'd ever do that. Sorry I snuck snacks. It always seems like a really really good idea at the time. I never break any of the other rules. Promise.

Hey, do you think we remember things when we leave here? I know we don't, but it seems weird we don't. Do you think our hearts remember, though? I can't really picture not looking at birds and thinking of Soren, or not reaching to my wrist or my neck when I'm worried and playing with the prayer beads or the pendant Raven made me that first Christmas. I can't imagine not thinking "oh, Christmas is coming" for winter. Which is weird, because I never bothered with it and I've only seen two. But right now it's summer, and then it will be autumn, and then it will be winter and Christmas. And then spring, and Valentines.

Last Christmas, I got stuck under the mistletoe and you got me out. Remember? I bet this Christmas, we're all going to get stuck under the mistletoe again. This Christmas, I'll rescue you at least once. I'm going to be dramatic and daring. Maybe I'll strike a pose??? I'll practice it, so you'll be really, super impressed with me.

I dunno if I'll fit in my body at home. I mean, not just 'cause I'm taller. I feel older, too. Well, I am older, but that's not what I mean. I dunno. It's not something I know how to explain I guess, so I don't think I'm going to try. It's just weird to think we can be whittled down and shoved in without pieces getting left behind. I think if I go home ever, I'll look at birds and remember a feeling, or reach for something that's not there. Or maybe seeing your statue will feel different than it always did. I always liked the statue, but I didn't know the things I know now. When I looked at your face it was always with the stories everyone said and I didn't have any of my own. I have lots of stories now, and I think that changes a face when you look at it. Doesn't it? I could be wrong, but those things feel like things you can't erase. Like when you mess up on a math problem in ink, and then you have to make it into a flower or something, only Sifu Raine probably knows all the doodles are actually wrong answers, even if you put the right answer beside the doodle.

I've made more right answers than wrong ones for a while now. I don't think I hate fractions anymore. Does growing up mean not hating fractions? I still haven't started to mind not being part of the Valentines day stuff, although it's fun to watch, so I guess maybe I'm not that grown up.

I like having my own room, but I like that it's connected to yours. I think every place should have a firepole. We should put them in every room in the house, and in every house in the village, and in every village in the whole wide world.

I wonder if I'll really like firepoles if I go home. Well, I think I would. I liked them here. So, I'll like them there. I wonder if anyone will ever make a trampoline.

I'm supposed to be writing a goodbye, but I don't really know how to do that. I don't want to say goodbye to you ever. I don't think I have to, really. Even if I don't have prayer beads or memories, I'm still your granddaughter. You're one of the people I can't ever really forget. Everything at home is because you were there, too. Thank you for daddy and Uncle Bumi and Aunt Kya, and the island you made us, and Republic City, and the world. I love all of them more than anything, even though I haven't seen them in a really long time.

If I go away, you have to take over my part in the art club. And make sure Raven doesn't eat alone at lunch. And sneak Momo treats when he's not supposed to have any, either.

Sorry. I did that, too.

And feed Prince Petunia and Princess Phillip.

Also I guess people are allowed to use my cup. The one Aunt Toph made for me, my first Christmas. But only people I like can use it. So you can use it, and everyone in the house, but you can never let Mr. Vegeta use it.

I know you never really liked Loki, but you should keep the airbending balls. They're fun to play with. If you practice, you can learn to make music. I'm still getting the hang of it. I think if I ever go home, I'd like to dream about them sometime. And everyone here.

You're upstairs in your room now and we're going to go out and play, so I have to end this here. I'm going to fly higher than you today, okay? Or I'll try anyway.

Love,

Ikki

p.s. If I don't fly higher than you today, I'll do it tomorrow.