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Who: Zuko
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Bishop
When: Now

[ When the video starts up the face on the screen sure doesn't look happy, but then again it so rarely does. ]

I've been here long enough to have gotten my bearings, so I won't waste time with that. Right now there's only one thing I want to know, and I refuse to believe no one can answer that for me.

[ His jaw sets. And he does his best to make sure it looks like he's standing up straight and means business here. Even over video he wants to come across as having a certain air of "no nonsense allowed". ]

I'll keep it short. Tell me who or what is Atroma, and where can I find them.

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Time stops? I don't really buy it, but apparently that's what happens.

[Sokka pauses, raises his hands in a slow upward motion as he breathes, and then lowers them as he exhales. ]

Deep calming breaths. In. Ouuuut. I've worked a lot on these ships and I can tell you that they really won't do well if, for instance, there's suddenly a lot of fire. So calm thoughts, OK buddy?

They say that we won? That Aang defeated your dad by taking away is bending somehow? We're all okay and definitely not dead. Yay, us?

[ He's not joining those deep breathing exercises, but he does take it down a notch.

... Okay, so he does take one deep breath, but seems to hold it after that. So much of this doesn't make any sense to him, but he wants to believe it. Aang defeated his father without killing him. It seems too good to be true. ]

But how is that even possible?

[Come on, Zuko, that's not being a Team Player. Please don't forget to breathe out. ]

Heck if I know. Weird Avatar stuff? I'm the Non-bender, remember? None of this makes any sense to me.

[ He breathed in! He's meeting Sokka halfway! Stop giving him a hard time!!

He's letting that breath out finally in a hiss. Actually, he let the breath out when he was talking, this is an entirely different breath he's hissing out now as he rubs the spot between his eye. ]

Then he's the only one who will know the answer. Where is he right now?

[ Aang, he means. Some things never change, and Zuko's endless search for the Avatar is apparently one of them. ]

[THAT'S HIS JOB ]

He's on the Caprine. He'll probably be all over this once he hears you're here, though.

[It's the natural order of things. ]

[ Slack on the job and someone's gonna take your place, Sokka. ]

Then I'll make sure to find him later.

[ He already agreed to meet up with Katara, so hey, that means Sokka gets first dibs too. Just... what he always wanted? No? ]

[RUDE ]

Feeling less freaked out yet?

[He's worried but won't admit it because that's not MANLY. ]

I never said I was freaked out!

[ Look at him also trying to pretend he's MANLY, even though there's nothing wrong with being freaked out over suddenly appearing in OUTER SPACE. ]

...Yeah, sure, we'll play it that way.

Are you feeling less horribly misplaced, then?

[ Stop. Don't insinuate he can't handle this! ]

I'm managing.

[He raises his hands carefully.]

Okay okay, just checking.

[ B( B( B( ]

Well I'm fine!

[ That was convincing. ]

I'll be over to your ship soon.

[ How soon? Very. He gives Sokka one small nod of acknowledgement before cutting the feed. He'd rather continue this conversation in person. ]

When is 'soon', Zuko?

...

Aaaand he's gone.

[Note to self: teach Zuko communicator etiquette. ]

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