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Current Location: The Cooper Farm, Kansas

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Suki is sitting in the shade of a big beech tree, a little way removed from the buildings and goings on of the main farmstead. It's safe to say that her time at the Cooper Farm has not started very well, what with meeting Sokka and finding out that he's not the one that she left behind at the Western Air Temple, and having to swallow the fact that he's with some other girl here. Hence why she's distinctly unhappy right now.

There are other Sokkas here, allegedly, but she refuses to get her hopes up about that. Meditation hasn't helped at all. So she's just sitting there in her Earth clothes, brooding, and looking nothing like the proud Kyoshi warrior that some folk know her to be.

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She could tell her what happened to Katara!

But Suki doesn't bother asking for that.

She sniffs (rather than sniffles, because that'd just be pathetic) and brings her head back up. There's a weary smile in return for the comforting gesture.

"No. I don't think so."

Beat.

"Well... actually? I haven't eaten anything since I arrived last night. And I'm not sure what the deal is for food around here."

Sokka's delicious-looking sandwiches had died on the ground, and then she'd headed out to this spot. Suki is ravenous now that she thinks about it.

"Sure." Steph is relieved to have something that she can do. "I made lasagne last night, there's a stack of it in the fridge, and there's cookies and bread and heaps of fruit -- c'mon, I'll show you around, help you figure out where everything is..."

Suki looks reluctant to move at first.

She appreciates the offer, of course. She asked for food though, not a grand tour with someone she's really not sure any good can come from hanging around with. Steph seems nice enough when she's in control of her insecurities, but there can't be any proper friendship in their future with the Sokka situation the way it is. Can there?

She stalls by asking: "what's lasagne?"

"Pasta and beef," Steph explains, stretching while she waits for Suki to either get to her feet or not. Hands go back behind her head and then down some ridiculous comic-book-world degree to stretch out her spine. "And tomato sauce, and cream cheese sauce, in layers. Sokka likes it."

"Beef. That's sort of like cow-pig meat, right?"

That's as close a comparison as she had managed to figure out when Rei had tried to describe it back when they'd been scavenging for food in Tokyo.

"No wonder Sokka likes it," she chuckles. "If it's got meat in it..."

She trails off and sighs.

"Nevermind. It sounds good."

Noting Steph's extra-bendiness with a subtly interested eyebrow, Suki gets up and dusts herself off without revealing anything of her own capabilities.

"Don't worry about showing me around though. I think it would be better if I figured things out on my own."

"Yeah, I guess it would," Steph agrees, a little relieved that her overenthusiastic gesture of friendliness wasn't accepted. It might not have been a particularly fun tour, anyway.

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