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[Fire Luceti! Fire!!!

The forest is burning with flames that reach higher than many of the residents will have ever seen. There's something off in that fire thought, to begin with no animals are trying to escape from it. Another strange thing is the lack of smoke or heat that should accompany such a big fire. Yet the fire is there, as real as everything else, just lacking the normal effects it should have.

For anyone curious enough to check on it they will find they they can walk through the fire without burning or feeling even an inch warmer then before. Unless they come with evil intentions, in which chances are they will at the very least be burned a bit, and the force of the fire will increase as they approach its center. People without evil intentions will be able to waltz through it as if nothing was there, finding animals and vegetation inside the fire totally unharmed, and in what would be the center of the fire, they'll find Ikki, sitting on a rock with his Pandora Box besides him.

Eyes closed as he sits calmly, anyone capable of feeling or being affected even a bit by his Cosmos will probably notice a poke upon approaching and a great concentration in the young man.]

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[Katara stares at the fire for a long time, and then finally, after around, reaches forward the very tips of her fingers into the flame.

...nothing. She pulls out her hand and stares at it, incredulous, and then repeats the experiment one more time, this time longer. No pain. No burning.

...

...It's obvious what has to come next. Katara squares her shoulders and takes a deep breath, and steps through the fire, looking around for the source.]

Hello?

[It will take a bit more to reach Ikki, but he hears the girl's voice clearly. An understandable reaction he supposes. He answers, not bothering to raise his voice even if it's possible she won't hear him directly given where she is yet. Instead, however, the voice will reach her as if coming from the flames, an echo not different from those heard in deep caves.]

Hello.

[...okay, that's not creepy! Except for the part where it totally is. Katara starts and begins looking around - this is all so very wrong!]

Um. [...] Am I talking to the fire?

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[Ikki smirks at his sitting place, amused by the girl. Not that he blames her, still it's good to see that he can still communicate through his Cosmos, no one knows when that can be useful.]

No. The fire is just transporting my voice to you. Come to the center if you want to see who is the one talking.

[THIS IS REALLY CREEPY.]

[...but she is not about to let that stop her. All the same, going further into flames... she just hopes that what she has in her waterskin is enough to protect her if she has to get out of here in a hurry. She's unfortunately familiar enough with the way that fire kills to know that she'll have some time if she starts burning.]

...okay.

[So Katara heads into the center of the flame. Once she arrives, she sees a stranger sitting on a rock.] ...Hello?

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[Ikki doesn't move but he'll open his eyes to look at her. He can feel what he assumes it's worry in her Cosmos, probably due being walking around an apparent blazing inferno even if it hasn't hurt her.]

Don't worry, this fire won't hurt you. You're immune to it.

[Her response is instinctive:] How can anyone be immune to fire?

[And he could no doubt sense worry - rage - fear - grief - they all come bubbling up in one brief, purely instinctual - SHE IS STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF FIRE AND NOT BEING BURNED, OMG.]

Anyone who doesn't bear an evil intent or spirit is immune to this fire.

[He eyes her calmly.]

This isn't really fire, the fire is just the way my Cosmos manifests. To those who lack evil, the only similarity between this and real fire is just on appearance.

[...okay. So it's not really fire. That makes... no sense. But neither does the fact that she's standing here and not being burned. So. Katara closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. Adapt.]

Okay. So what you're saying is... this fire is an extension of your power? And it only hurts certain people?

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That's correct.

[It's a good summarize after all.]

[...okay, that's weird. And Katara's not sure how comfortable she feels with some... thing judging whether or not she's good or evil or worthy or not worthy or whatever. But, apparently she passed, so she's just not going to worry about that now. Instead, she returns to glancing around at the fire with wonder.]

I've never seen anything like this before.

Not many in my world get to see it either, so it's not a surprise even if Saints were to exist in your world too.

Saints? [She shakes her head... and can't help running a hand through the flames even though she's still standing in fire. This is so weird. Then she gives him her attention again.]

No, I've never heard of them. I'm Katara.

Back in my world the Saints are a secret well kept from most people. Of the few that know about them the majority think they are just old legends and myths.

I'm Ikki, the Phoenix Saint.

[So much of those words mean nothing to her, and 'Phoenix' is right up there with 'Saint.']

It's nice to meet you, Ikki. [She feels like she should sit down if she was going to continue to talk to him, but - sitting. In fire. Somehow, so much worse than standing in fire, even if the fire wasn't real. So she just shakes her head.] I've got no idea what a 'saint' is. In my world, we have legends and myths of different kinds of spirits, but... you don't look like a spirit.

[That makes him smirk.]

A Saint is just a warrior that fights in the name of the Goddess Athena against those that search the destruction of the world and humanity. Does your world have Gods and Goddesses?

[And she shakes her head.]

Not that I've ever heard of. I've met a few gods since I've been here, though. [And they are... all wolves. Hmm.]

[A world without Gods? That's hard to imagine, but because Ikki can't think of a world where Gods wouldn't try to fulfill their selfish whims and toy with humans. But because it's hard to believe that there would be a world in which humans wouldn't have the need to believe in a higher being to go on living. It's difficult to deny the fact that Gods have always ultimately been the verbal scapegoats of humanity, blaming any disaster to their whim, even those that were purely the work of humans.]

Hn, the people of your world must all have a strong will then. What gods have you meet here?

Oh? Why do you say that?

[Standing in fire - standing. in. fire. She pauses to consider-] I've met Moro. And - I heard that the wolf with the markings on her was Amaterasu.

[Ikki eyes her before, with a sigh, he begins to reduce his level of concentration. The flames flicker and begin to vanish slowly in thin air, as if they had never been there.]

Whether Gods exist or not, in my world people have always needed to believe in a higher being to go on with their lives. The belief that something of immense power and kindness is watching over them has given them strength to live through anything. And whenever something bad happened, the scapegoat those Gods represented has relieved them of a great deal of pain by blaming their problems on the ill will of a God rather than on their own mistakes.

[He hums lightly.]

I have never heard of a God named Moro. But I know Amaterasu, she's the Goddess of the Sun at my country.

[He has never seen her depicted as a wolf. But then again he has never seen Athena depicted as a preteen brat with purple hair, so he's no one to judge the appearance of a God -as long as they leave his brother alone he's satisfied-.]

[Hey, for someone who's mother was burned alive, she's doing really well standing in fire - that is... nicely going down. OK. Good. She'll visibly relax, and take a seat.]

...well, we have spirits in my world. But we've learned to work with them and not - even when they do things that we don't approve of or understand, they usually have their reasons. It's just... a really good idea not to offend them.

That's one of the reasons why we have an Avatar - the Avatar is the bridge between our world and the spirit world. So when the spirits are angry, someone can talk to them and try to make them listen.

[And she laughs a little and shakes her head-] No, in my world... we know who's at fault when something bad happens. [The Fire Nation springs to mind.]

[All the fire is gone now and Ikki is also visibly more relaxed and willing to look at her. He sensed that she was really troubled about being surrounded by fire, even one that didn't harm her, but that's probably a natural reaction so he doesn't pay it too much attention.]

Your spirits sound a lot as what people in my world call Gods. In the ancient times there were also people who supposedly could contact with the superior beings and talk with them. Try to calm their anger or ask for advice, they were called Oracles.

And most of them were fake.

[He shrugs, no he's not accusing Katara's Avatar of being a fake. He's more inclined to believe it real than a fake, actually.]

Anyway, I still maintain that your people must have a strong will. Specially if you serve as any kind of representation.

[~~Katara having a strong will? Noooo, why would you say that, Ikki?~~ It would have never entered into Katara's mind that he might be making a comparison, saying Aang was also fake -- Aang's abilities are so imminently real to her - and besides, he said he was a Saint. Obviously he has some connection with the gods of his world. But she blushes, complimented at his words - and Katara doesn't really know how to deal with compliments.]

What makes you say that?

What you just did. The fire, it troubles you, more than I've seen it troubling many, specially here. Yet you entered it, walked through it and stood in it without panicking despite the fact that probably all the fibers in your being told you to do so or run away.

But you didn't, you stayed and were rational enough to talk calmly to me. If that's not an example of a strong will I don't know what will be.

[He's not one to make compliments and he's not making them now, he's just stating facts and an opinion. If she feels complimented it's not his problem.]

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