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Sokka is contemplating the road to Smallville. Town! People! And more importantly ... SHOPPING!

But he's not sure they'd accept Fire Nation money here, and that's all he has.

Plus ... Sokka's basically a lazy person. And it's a long way to walk.

There's SRS THINKY going on here, as he stands out the front of the farmhouse with hands in pockets.

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"Toph will break you in twelve pieces if you poison me," Sokka informs her, looking at it doubtfully.

...who are we kidding, this boy once tasted slime off a cave wall. SLURRRRRP.

"......sweet and delicious!"

"You only have 20 minute to live," Layla said dryly.

Sokka freezes.

"No I don't," he says firmly, and walks a few more steps, casually. Then, in a TOTALLY UNRELATED SEQUENCE OF EVENTS, proceeds to spit as much Kool-Aid into the bushes as he can.

PTHE PTHE PFFTH! Ack ack ack poison gettitout!

This would be Layla snickering.

"It was totally a joke," Layla said with an evil grin. "I drank some first. Remember?"

She pulls out her own bottle of previously made kool-aid and has a generous drink before grinning again at her traveling companion.

"Mmmm. Delicious."

"I knew that," Sokka says instantly.

"I was just ... spitting because I felt like it."

Yeah.

YEAH.

Yeah.

Yeah right!

"Suuuuuuure," she says rolling her eyes. "Want some more?"

Instant grin.

"Yes please!"

Layla shakes her head in amusement and hands him another bottle.

"Try not to spit it out this time."

Sokka rolls his eyes.

But he takes the bottle.

"Are we nearly there yet?"

"Almost there," Layla replied. "Don't worry you'll have plenty of time to shop before you need to get back. It's not that horrible of a walk."

"I do like shopping." He grins, excited again. "We need a car! Can we buy a car!?"

Layla gives him her pantented "Are you for real?" look.

"Sure. Because there aren't plenty left abandoned in the world that you just can't pick which one you want and just use it. Besides if you want a car just steal Jamie's. He won't care."

Well he will but he'll just pissed at Layla.

"We need a car to get to a place we can steal a car," Sokka says logically, and then eyes her doubtfully when she suggests stealing Jamie's. "...no!"

"Then why not just steal one to begin with? Or... You know. Walk," she says with an eyeroll. "What kind of car do you want?"

"We can't steal someone here's car," Sokka says patiently. "They'll be sad. So we have to get a car properly, till we can steal someone dead's car."

He pauses, thinking this second question over.

"...a black one. With an engine."

"Okay. The car you want is at the third farm down that road," Layla said pointing at the road in question as the pass it. "The owner's abandoned it when the spit hit the fan and left the car behind. It's in good working shape and will get you where you need to go."

And then she gave Sokka a look.

"Unless you still don't want me to tell you stuff."

...

"...okay, you can tell me stuff then." BEAM.

"...just not stuff I don't want you to talk about! And you can't talk about it to anyone else either! But you can tell me useful stuff. Can we go that way now?"

"Fine," she says with an eyeroll and heads back to the road. "You are so easily distracted."

"We need a car to go shopping in," Sokka points out logically. Or is that word 'justifies'? Same diff.

"You just want to drive a car and you're rationalizing it," Layla snarked. "But it's no skin off my nose."

And there would be the road leading up to the third farm.

"It's in the barn. You're not afraid of spiders or anything, right?"

"Of course not!" Sokka says Very Firmly.

"...why, are there spiders in it?"

"Yes. But no more than your average amount. For a barn," Layla said walking up to the door of said barn. "Ready to see your new wheels?"

"I don't want just wheels," Sokka points out, following eagerly. "I want a whole car. And do you know how to make them go?"

Cue eyerolling. "I know that. Wheels is a slang term for car. And I don't have time to tell you the complete inner workings of the internal combustion engine. Do you want to see the car or what?"

"Of course I want to see the car!" Sokka glowers at her. "I want to know how it works too. I want to play with the engine and drive the car and everything!"

IT'S SO EXCITING.