[Thirteen-Voice]

[wishonastone]

[Xiao Long Nu is sitting on her bed, staring at her phone thoughtfully. Eventually, she glances up and smiles at the crow.]

I decided. I'm going to call Xiao Bao. I want to know that everyone's ok. I wish I could call Zuko.

[She starts to scroll through her contacts and then looks up again and flaps a hand at the crow]

Oi, why are you still here? Go

Comments

[rialta_fianaise]

Call? You mean... that's a phone?

A working phone?

[He's not sure whether to be gobsmacked more by the phone or the fact that it's working, so he settles for neither]

Uh... any chance it'll work for home phones, too?

'Cause if it will, can I... erm, can I use it?

[wishonastone]

Of course it's a phone! Of course it works for home phones! How can you not know that?

[She waves it at the crow. It's small and silver, with several little jangly charms hanging off it and her contacts in Taiwanese on the screen]

[rialta_fianaise]

Um... where - when - I come from, phones... don't look like that. At all.

Just 'cause 1972's a brave new world doesn't mean we've got tech like something on Doctor Who.

So, can I borrow it some time? I want to... to check up on a friend.

[wishonastone]

1972? That's so weird! You're like an old man!!!

...ehhhh, you can borrow it when I'm done! It's not like I have to worry about phone bills any more.

[rialta_fianaise]

[Laughs]

You're about the third person to say that. I'm seventeen, for God's sake. Haven't even gone off to university yet!

...never will now, I suppose.

But... yeah. Yeah, that's be great.

[wishonastone]

Hey, you're only my age! But I was born in 1992! That's really really weird!

[rialta_fianaise]

But cool.

Come on, admit it.

[wishonastone]

It is cool! At least you're from my world!...I think...

[rialta_fianaise]

Easy way to find out. Do you have an Ireland in your world? If yes, is your Ireland filled with morons with big guns who won't stop trying to blow each other up?

[wishonastone]

Ireland...that's in England, isn't it? I think there was something on the news a couple of years ago but I don't pay attention to the news. It doesn't really affect me because it's so far away and I have bigger things to worry about! Like training! And Dong Fang Bu Bai!

[rialta_fianaise]

[Bursts out laughing]

I want you to meet my dad sometime. He'd have an embolism.

Ireland's next to England. It's not in England. Northern Ireland's in Britain - whatever Dad might say.

And you're from...?

[wishonastone]

Oh, right! I knew that!

I'm from West Side High School! That's near Taipei.

[rialta_fianaise]

Uh...

China?

[wishonastone]

No, Taiwan!

[rialta_fianaise]

Ah. That's next to China, right?

[wishonastone]

Right! Off the coast!