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[fierybluebird]

[Marco is wandering around campus about to do Disciplinary Committee Rounds and whistling to himself. As he whistles, occasionally a few birds come and land on his head or shoulders or arms and whistle and tweet back to them. In fact, by all appearances he appears to be talking directly to them. Still he continues walking around, deadpan as can be, as though there was perfectly nothing strange about being surrounded by a bunch of birds asking why he has to be out so late and are phoenixes related to owls, and hey where's that loaf of bread he promised? They've got babies to feed you know!]

So long as you hush when I'm sneaking up on someone you can have a hotdog too, okay?

[One bird keeps tweeting an objection to this. She doesn't like hotdogs.]

Fine, you can have fruit.

[This seems to quiet her down.]

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[fierybluebird]

[Eyeroll.] Of course not. I'm not an anarchist. Actually, I do burn stuff for fun. But it's usually fireworks. Ace was the one with the penchant for burning down entire fleets of ships at once. That's why I call him Sparky.

Honestly, even that prick Kaidou isn't as bad as everyone makes pirates out to be here.

[bendthis.livejournal.com]

[There's a nod, because that's what Sokka thought, and it seems to be enough of an answer to let him lay back down and wiggle under the blankets.]

I know you love Ace and all, but he's kind of a jerk.

[fierybluebird]

[Starts laughing.] You just called him a nice guy earlier.

But yeah, he is. There's a lot I can't tell you about him, it's not mine to share. But he has his reasons to want to put so much distance between himself and piracy. And since that's how my Ace died... maybe it's not the worst choice.

[Grits his teeth and looks momentarily miserable at that.]

[bendthis.livejournal.com]

[Sokka just reaches out and pats Marco's hand.]

We'll figure [yawn] figure something out.

[fierybluebird]

It's okay, Sokka, really.

Thanks for the loyalty, eh?

Ace is a good guy at heart, he just has a lot that he's going through. And as a marine... [Shrugs.] But you gave me back some of my faith. It'll work out.

[bendthis.livejournal.com]

[By telling Marco that Ace was a jerk? But he did help him to the infirmary. So. Uh.

Sokka pats his hand again and then curls up tighter.]

We'll figure something out.

[fierybluebird]

Yeah, we will. When you've had some rest. [Pats his head.]