[ It's called smokescreen. Not that it's working. How can it, when he lives with a grumpy little Avatar who moves through every subject with such petulant authority, kicking over stones as if by accident to reveal all the squirmy truths hiding underneath? Worms, Roxanne. Worms. ]
[ Lightly, he bats off her hand when she reaches for the sizzling prawns. ]
Let them cook.
[ And they call him a glutton. Speaking of gluttony: the sauce is done. Hei lifts the pot lid, the heavy buttery smell enveloping the air. Pours it into a small ceramic bowl, and gathers a verdant sprig of chives from the fridge. He sprinkles them, finely chopped, across the soupy amber surface, diffusing the saltiness of the butter with a cool mint aftertaste. It is only once he's set the whole dish before Korra, plump pink-white prawns arranged in a bowl, still steaming faintly, does he speak. ]
Look. We'll use Mai if it's a girl. Tulaq [ A phonetic hat-tip to Tonraq, but also an adroit employment of words, as Tulaq means warrior, but is also a tribute to the God of the Stars, ] if it's a boy.
[ Both short and sweet. Also easy to yell in one breath. See? He's planning ahead. ]
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Date: 2015-02-28 12:19 am (UTC)[ Lightly, he bats off her hand when she reaches for the sizzling prawns. ]
Let them cook.
[ And they call him a glutton. Speaking of gluttony: the sauce is done. Hei lifts the pot lid, the heavy buttery smell enveloping the air. Pours it into a small ceramic bowl, and gathers a verdant sprig of chives from the fridge. He sprinkles them, finely chopped, across the soupy amber surface, diffusing the saltiness of the butter with a cool mint aftertaste. It is only once he's set the whole dish before Korra, plump pink-white prawns arranged in a bowl, still steaming faintly, does he speak. ]
Look. We'll use Mai if it's a girl. Tulaq [ A phonetic hat-tip to Tonraq, but also an adroit employment of words, as Tulaq means warrior, but is also a tribute to the God of the Stars, ] if it's a boy.
[ Both short and sweet. Also easy to yell in one breath. See? He's planning ahead. ]