First Entrance.

[spiralmovements]

Pema and the girls were off in the city, which left Tenzin with Meelo tending to the gardens for the day picking vegetables. Now it is important to note that Tenzin loves his son, as he loves all his children. That being said - Tenzin's ears hurt from all the pulling.

Meelo's back in his room now, just for the moment while Tenzin puts away his things in the bedroom he shares with his wife. His brown work robes are changed for his habitual orange-and-yellow Air Nomad ones and he leaves his room again intending on a nice lunch with his son.

Except he is not in the temple anymore, is he?

Tenzin straightens the clasp of his robe as a rare nervous tic, but it drops from his expression nearly immediately so that he can survey the situation.

Tenzin of Air Temple Island, welcome to Milliways.

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[abitofawildman]

Someone shoulder-checks Tenzin from behind. It's probably not intentional, the room is bustling. Of course it could be that the person behind him is distracted by the great window with the impossible view just over yonder.

"....'scuse me," the man mumbles.
Or it could be the sheer amount of liquor on his breath.

Either way...it's clear he doesn't mean an offense.

[spiralmovements]

Tenzin's nose wrinkles at the stench, but still offers a clear "Of course" and steps aside before he manages to add all the facts together.

"Bumi?"

[abitofawildman]

Bumi, who had continued onward towards the window, stops mid-step at the call of his name.

There weren't any higher ranking officers in the tavern, so why no title? They can't be so soused that they've forgotten protocol, can they? And...why does that person sound like his baby brother?

Very slowly he turns.

"Tenzin?!"

[spiralmovements]

"What -- what are you doing in Republic City?"

Tenzin is walking up to Bumi to hug him even as he is asking the question.

"You normally say something when you are coming by."

[abitofawildman]

Bumi'll take the hug, because hugs are awesome, but...

"Brother, we're not in Republic City," he says slowly. "We're in a tavern on the easternmost shore of Chameleon Bay."

He leans back from the hug and gives Tenzin an appraising look...which sort of wobbles a bit. "Has Oogi thrown you? Are you all right?"

[spiralmovements]

"Are you? Why would I be in Chameleon Bay?"

Tenzin holds up one hand, then: "How many fingers am I holding up?"

[abitofawildman]

Bumi bats his brother's hand away. It's his job to be concerned. He's older.

"That's what I'm trying to determine. And why were you this far east to begin with? Were you blown off course by a storm?"

[sunbaked_baker]

There's a young, red-headed woman in an lime green t-shirt and tangerine jeans (both protected by a light blue apron), entering the bar room from the kitchen and carrying a tray of large, gooey cinnamon rolls, fresh from the oven. Once the tray is set upon the bar, she glances towards Tenzin. It's a familiar habit, the automatic glance over towards the door when someone is standing in front of it.

"Not where you were?" she asks with a slight smile. Rae has asked this question many times upon meeting newcomers - it no longer seems weird to her.

[spiralmovements]

"I certainly am not. And you are not a new arrival."

Tenzin makes a concerted effort to know all the novitiates, and this...fluorescent woman is not one of them.

"Is this the spirit world?"

[sunbaked_baker]

Rae owns maybe one grey t-shirt and one pair of black jeans. Everything else is as bright as can be, right down to her shoes (cherry red sneakers, today). The light-web set into her skin and hair, at least, is subtle. Hard to notice for most humans in Milliways, almost impossible in her world when it's not active.

"Most definitely not a new arrival, though there are still things about this place that surprise me," she replies. "It's not the spirit world, or any sort of Otherspace I'm familiar with. This is Milliways. It's a bar."

[spiralmovements]

"A bar. In my dormitory.

"There is no way I approved this."

[sunbaked_baker]

Sunshine can't help it - she laughs. Lightly, at least.

"No one ever does." It's sympathetically said. "Milliways shows up when and where it wants to, usually without warning. For example, it tends to show up in my bakery near the end of my shift."

"It's not part of any one world, so you get people from all over, not just from one's own world or time, but from anywhere and anywhen."

[spiralmovements]

"Are there other benders here?"

[acts_of_gord]

He's not the only one who didn't intend to be here today. On the other hand, Gordon looks more disgruntled than surprised. This was supposed to be the bedroom. The babies are finally sleeping at the same time and he wanted to crash face first before having to go through the latest Overworld data.

And he gets this instead.

Oh, well. He's just going to- okay, new person directly in his path... "Sorry," he says, doing his best to ease sideways around the person he doesn't recognize at all. "Didn't mean to come up short on you like that."

[spiralmovements]

"Quite alright, I was just -- completely lost."

No use in lying, I suppose.

"Is there a reason there is now an alehouse in my dormitory?"

[acts_of_gord]

Gordon glances over his shoulder, then back to the man. "The door's a portal. You're in a different world than the one you left from," he says. Words are never his friend, and they are less so when he is tired. "Temporarily, anyway. And the portal's not permanent, it comes and goes."

[spiralmovements]

I always heard stories from Dad about the Spirit World, but I always pictured it with more animals.

(Tenzin hasn't been outside yet.)

"I can return whenever I'd like?"

[acts_of_gord]

"As long as the door's there when you look at it," says Gordon, gesturing over his shoulder. "If it disappears, or if it locks on you, it means you're going to be here a while."

[spiralmovements]

"So now all I need to do is decide whether or not my son has hit me on the head too many times."

Tenzin shrugs. "Children."

[will_scarlett]

Will's hair is still wet from his swim and he's dressed but with some laces loose as he gets his dinner before heading to a table.

When he spots Tenzin, who looks new, he sets his dinner down and smiles, "Yer first time 'ere, sir?"

He kind of looks like a monk just with a colorful habit.

[spiralmovements]

That's pretty much what he is, so it works.

"It is. I know of no alehouses like this in Republic City."

[will_scarlett]

"Cause ye're na in Republic City, tis Milliways. 'as a way o'surprisin' ye the first time ye find it."

[spiralmovements]

"Milliways."

This is Tenzin's not-believing-you face.

[will_scarlett]

"Aye, Milliways, at the End o'the Universe, Window's o'er there,"

He gestures but doesn't look.

[spiralmovements]

Tenzin does look.





"Is that the Spirit World?"