*Bee (yes, again)*

I jogged after Teo. Who, just my luck, slammed on the brakes two feet from the door.

Normally I can stop easily, but was only a couple of feet behind him and the toe of the boot caught on a crack.

So I went flying.

I grabbed onto the back of his chair, the momentum still propelling me forward, and therefore making him slide forward and bump into the door.

"Sorry," I muttered, straightening up.

He looked back and chuckled.

"Nyeh," I muttered, sticking my tongue out at him.

He laughed harder.

I rolled my eyes, just as Longshot slid in behind me.

He looked at my arm, still leaning on the wheelchair, looked back up at me, and raised an eyebrow.

(Uh, what'd I miss?)

"None ya," I grumbled.

Teo covered his mouth, trying not to laugh.

The Duke stopped a couple of feet behind me. "You guys really need to learn to slow down," he muttered, a little short on breath.

I grinned. "Oh, come on. A few months ago you could beat half the tree house in a race, easy."

He scowled. "I'm a little rusty, okay?"

Haru skidded to a stop behind him. "I hate you," he gasped.

The four of us laughed.

"Okay, you know what?" I managed. "Let's stop making fun of people and just see what's behind the door."

Teo nodded, still chuckling, and wheeled back so I could reach the handle. I grabbed it and dragged the – very heavy, I might add – giant door back about ten feet.

The four of them stopped laughing – or scowling, in Haru's case – and stared.

"What?" I asked.

Longshot snapped out of it and pointed though the doorway.

I leaned forward to look without letting go of the door, standing on my toes to give me a little more height.

I stared.

It wasn't a room. It was a hallway lined by giant marble statues of airbenders, bison, and lemurs.

I snapped out of it and whistled. "A giant Hall of Statues. There's something you don't see every day."

Teo and The Duke snapped out of it, glanced at each other, grinned, and started running – or wheeling really quickly. Longshot and I ran after them, leaving Haru shaking his head and blinking the dust out of his eyes.

I glanced at the statues as I was running, wishing I had a little more time to look. Jewels had affected me. She loved statues, but really couldn't make a good one to save her life.

I slid in behind Teo, who had stopped a few feet in front of a giant ramp. He glanced at The Duke again, who nodded eagerly.

Those two could understand each other as well as Longshot and me.

"One test run by myself first, though," Teo said.

The Duke rolled his eyes, arms folded across his chest. "Fine."

I shook my head, wandered over to the nearest statue, and knelt down to read the inscription.

'Avatar Yangchen, great and fearless leader.' Hm.

I looked back up and saw Teo a good fifteen feet back from the edge, just far enough to gain good speed. The Duke was standing to the side, looking on eagerly, Longshot was watching, but not interested, and Haru had just walked into my field of vision.

Teo placed his hands on the wheels and started spinning.

Haru looked a little confused, but then he saw the ramp and got it.

I jogged a little closer as Teo started speeding up. He hit the edge of the ramp and started laughing, lifting his hands off.

I came up to the edge, watching him roll down. The thing was actually pretty steep.

About three quarters of the way down, his hand reached for the break.

Good place to stop, I thought. The kid knew what he was doing.

He pulled back.

It snapped in half.

He looked down, letting me see his profile. He was surprised and scared, just like everyone else. Although appropriately more so.

I glanced at Longshot, who had run over so he was standing next to me. He looked as scared as me.

I looked back down the ramp. That boy was in for a head-on collision if he didn't think fast.

Lucky for him he did.

He grabbed the wheels and jerked them to the right so the left side of his chair was facing the wall, and falling fast at the same time.

If he fell first, it would hurt. Bad. But the momentum would slow down first, so he'd be thrown out, and be pretty scraped up, but fine.

If he crashed into the wall first, the chair would shatter, his head would slam against solid rock, and he'd break at least most of his left side.

The wheels screeched against the polished rock, tipping while speeding toward the dangerously close slab of marble.

The back left wheel jumped the rock, so the chair slammed back down, somehow not splintering a wheel, and started tipping fast.

I thought he'd be just in the clear. The chair fully crashed down.

I heard a surprisingly quiet, "Ow!"

The chair was still skidding along too fast. It'd been going faster, and longer, that it should have. And he was still going headfirst.

So his head slammed into the wall.