( it's a firebender's magic word, dragons. even though he. isn't a firebender anymore, that instinct remains. mako perks up even as he's dumping water into a teapot to set on a warm corner of the oven. how do you heat things without bending? this boy just doesn't know. he's not even sure he could build a fire from scratch, because he literally never needed to before. )
Is that what that is? ( a gesture to the berries. ) Or is that the approximation you were talking about?
( he's not going to just. up and ask if there are actual dragons, because he's a grown man and that's just not the sort of thing grown men do but inside there's very much a little kid's mantra of dragon, dragon, dragon and an insatiable curiosity about the possibility. surely no world would come up with the word, use it to describe something (spicy, probably? is that what he's smelling?) and manage all that completely independent of knowledge of the real thing, right? )
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Is that what that is? ( a gesture to the berries. ) Or is that the approximation you were talking about?
( he's not going to just. up and ask if there are actual dragons, because he's a grown man and that's just not the sort of thing grown men do but inside there's very much a little kid's mantra of dragon, dragon, dragon and an insatiable curiosity about the possibility. surely no world would come up with the word, use it to describe something (spicy, probably? is that what he's smelling?) and manage all that completely independent of knowledge of the real thing, right? )