A/N: Because we all knew that grass stalk wasn't meaningless as Nickelodeon claimed...
If this kid – Jet – is the harmless refugee looking for a new life in Ba Sing Se he claims, then I have no reason to be wary around him.
Harmless. Right. And I'm an impoverished Earth Kingdom native who wants nothing more in life than to own a tea shop someday.
Even without his shifty expression and vague past, I've heard enough stories about those who have been reduced by desperation to chewing the opiate weed…
And so I go along with everything he says – and remain within an arm's twitch of reducing him to a cinder at all times...