"UGH! I hate this job," Norbu said, spreading out his arms to survey his clothes. "The hair gets everywhere."

Yun shrugged, continuing to brush Mipung's fur. "Next time we'll do it naked."

Dechen giggled. She and Aparna were sitting on Mipung's tail, while Yun was levitating himself on a stand of earth to reach the higher levels.

He paused, moving his platform to look at the bison's sleeping face. "I've been with you for a while now, and I don't think I've ever seen her awake. Not on the ground, anyway."

"Dad swears that sometimes she sleeps while flying." Norbu gave up trying to get the hair off of his shirt and went back to brushing. "You could be helping," he snapped at his sisters. "Trishna and I are doing all the work while you two just sit there."

"We're helping!" Aparna said quickly, ineffectually brushing Mipung's tail. Dechen got up and began to work on her leg.

After another minute of this, Dechen sighed. "When I grow up, I'm gonna have my own team of Sky Bison, and a team of servants to brush and wash them for me."

Norbu gave her a withering look. "Servants?"

"I'm going to be a princess," she said, as though this should have been obvious. "I'm going to marry an Earth Kingdom prince, and help him collect Sky Bison for our royal menagerie."

Norbu gave a strangled groan, but Yun smirked. "Interesting plan. Are you ingaim for a prince from Omashu, or will hold out for one of the Earth King's sons?"

"Aren't you a prince, Trishna?" Aparna asked.

Norbu gave her a look of disbelief. "No," Yun said. "Where did you get that idea?"

"Dechen said so. She said—um—she said you were a prince, but when your dad died your evil brother got to be king and made you leave, but one day you're gonna go back and fight him, and then you'll be king like you're supposed to be."

A moment of silence passed. Norbu facepalmed, but Dechen, a bit red in the face, straightened up with her arms crossed, tilting her head back defiantly.

"Well, if you won't tell us what you were doing before you met us, we'll just have to guess."

Yun started to laugh. Then he realized that being the former Avatar was even more ridiculous than her story, which only made him laugh harder.

"Sorry," Yun said, getting back to work. "Not a prince. Though I know a few if you want to meet one."

"Really?!"

"No, Dechen. He's joking."

Yun shrugged and kept brushing.

Aparna said, "Norbu said he's gonna be a monk when he grows up."

"I didn't say that," he objected. He glanced toward Yun and shrugged. "I've thought about it, because I like reading and learning about philosophy and stuff. But I don't think I'd actually like being cooped up in the Temples all the time."

"Sounds like you should be a scholar or something. Get a job at Ba Sing Se University, then travel around researching stuff."

"What about you, Trishna?" Dechen asked. "What do you want to do when you grow up?"

Yun only hesitated for half a second. "Fix the world."

The others blinked. "Like...all of it?" Norbu asked stupidly.

Yun was back at that Makapu inn, remembering that fateful conversation with Jianzhu. Tell me that you don't feel that. That your spirit isn't filled with a thousand voices telling you to fix the world.

"Yeah," he said softly, feeling a pang in his chest. "That's what I...wish I could do."

Norbu stared at him for a moment, then turned slowly back to his task. "No offense, but I think that might be a tad too ambitious."