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Can anyone tell me what a "Komodo" is?

[This might seem random in context, and she's frustrated, okay. See, it all started with her going into the library just for something to do (maybe find a book on car construction to figure it out) and then she found some Zoobooks in a box. She started to flip through them and began to recognize... some of these are animals she's never heard of! Actually most of them are. But from an 'alligator' she can figure out what's the part of a catgator that's a 'gator' and not a 'cat' (though it helps she found another book on 'big cats') And she then got to work researching, spending most of her afternoon on it. You can walk in on her doing this.

She's gathered, by the time she breaks for an early dinner (now taking an animal encyclopedia into Seventh Heaven) she the animals she knows (normal ones) are actually split in half-ish on this world called Earth. Thing is, Earth also seems to have some combination animals too. Like tiger sharks. So she's in the process of trying to figure out how certain animals split apart.

The fact she can find "Rhino" (or well, "Rhinoceros" but it seems most people shorthand it to "Rhino" so she hopes that's not a combination animal because she's never haerd of a "ceros") but she can only find a "Komodo Dragon." There's also apparently an island of Komodo but (bah)!!

Run into her in the library, at dinner while flipping through this book, or answer her plea in voice. She might be baffled by some other animals too, the voice is just that one for simplicity.]

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...Terrifying. That's what they are.

[ AND YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE RID OF HER. HERE SHE COMES AGAIN TO PRATTLE AT YOU IN UNHELPFUL WAYS. ]

I actually meant what they look like, Ms. Summers.

Exactly. And they look terrifying.

I... see?

[Not at all]

Why do you wanna know, anyway? Planning a zoo?

Because my world [...still weird] has an animal called a komodo rhino and Earth seems to have a komodo dragon, so I just wonder what a komodo... looks like.

[...] Earth animals seem to be made of parts of normal animals, is that I mean.

Oh!

[ she sounds excited! ] You're from that world!

Yes, I'm from... that. World.

[ That's still weird. And she's excited? ]

...Do you know Sokka? Katara?

Yes, I know them. I only met Sokka here though.

Me and Sokka's verbal throwdowns about the ludicrousness of your animals are legendary.

Ludicrous? Excuse me, there's nothing "ludicrous" about "our" animals.

[This is nothing to get defensive about.

But Buffy's been rude here so]

There is. I mean -- from my POV? There definitely is. Just like I'm betting mine are pretty silly from yours.

[Oh fine, she laments.] That's right, some of them are ridiculous. [this is with a more relaxed, pleasant tone of voice. And to show it's not universal, she gives an example] Like puffins, they look silly with their beaks so small.

Small and striped. I never trust a striped beak.

Toucan puffins actually have stripes too... but I never thought about it quite like that.

Toucan puffins.

[ huh. ] But -- where do they end up living?

[ because don't those two birds have very different climates? ]

Usually on some of the smaller islands in the Fire Nation's chain. They can flight, but they usually don't migrate far from the coasts. [Not that she's... an expert]

Right. The, uhm, Fire Nation...

Which place are you from? There are four, right?

There's four elements, and there's usually considered to be four nations. It's gotten... a bit more complicated since the war ended though.

There's still the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom, but the two water tribes have two different councilors in Republic City. ...Which is where I'm from. It's the capitol of the United Republic, which isn't considered to be part of any of the nations, governed by a council with five representatives, one from each nation.

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...Like Switzerland.

...Sure! [Let's just.

Agree]

F-fan...tastic.

[ and now they've reached the point where things are just too awkward. ]

[...Let's just return to the original topic]

So what other animals have you heard about?

...Sparrowkeets.

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