Pai shrieked in excitement as she went into a total free fall. She clutched her glider to her side as she plummeted towards her target, the blueness of the sky around her.
The visiting monk from the Northern Temple dodged her stretched out hand and she snapped her glider open to glide up a draft another player of the game had created to avoid her. The updraft sent her towards another boy, this one from the Southern Temple, and she grinned in delight as she drew close.
The boy pulled a similar move to the one she just pulled, and closed his glider for half a moment to fall just under her outstretched arm, the arms of the glider snapping back out after her grab missed to pull the boy out of his own free fall.
"Nice move," she muttered to herself, admiring the younger monk's skill as he pulled ahead of her. What was his name? Ong? Aghes? She flipped over for half a second, so she was laying on her glider, and then dove again in a controlled drop toward one of her fellow acolytes at the Western Air Temple, a girl named Yang Fa.
The girl didn't even realize she was above her, and she tagged the girl's shoulder, using airbending to amplify her shouting "YOU'RE IT!" to the rest of the players.
Everyone scattered from the new 'it' and Pai took the opportunity to admire the pretty sky as the sun began to set, colors scattering across the sky as she let herself fall away from Ying Fa in a controlled dive, flipping head over heels. The sky blurred into a kaleidescope of color as she let herself fall away from the scramble above.
Lazily, she opened her glider and climb towards the scrum of air melee above. She broke a younger bender's fall as he fell away in a tumbled heap after a disastrous dodge, mindful of her role as an older acolyte in the game.
"Hey, Pai!" called out one of her friends, a young woman named Laichee, as they wheeled in the sky, "Are you and Hana going to be playing Bison Polo later?"
"Yeah," she replied, "I didn't even pass the preliminaries for the Pai Sho tournament. I lost to some Earth Kingdom farmer's brat from the sticks."
Her friend made a face, but had to suddenly dodge as the current 'it', a teenage boy from the Northern Temple tried to tag her. Pai grinned and reflected that her people really did have the best games.