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[This weekend, Jinora is an adult. The airbender has the distinctive blue arrow tattoos given to those who master the art and she's at least a decade older than she normally is. Regardless, most who know her would be able to recognize her. It's peculiar; she aged physically and mentally overnight, but her memory hasn't changed at all.

That mystery isn't the one she's concerned with. Sunday afternoon finds her on the beach, contemplating the relationships between the various bending arts. Jinora's brain seems to have aged along with her body. She feels more insightful, more capable of drawing her own conclusions rather than repeating what her father has taught her. She has every intention of using this greater insight to the fullest. As a ten year-old, she had been struggling with what she had been taught about bending, suspecting that she was missing something significant. Now her thoughts seem freer and clearer.

Jinora may also be avoiding a four year-old Korra. Getting her thoughts straight with a little Avatar present was all but impossible. She hasn't wandered far, though.

Occupied as she is, Jinora's paying little attention to her surroundings, eyes focused on the rhythmic movement of the ocean waves.]

[ooc: Action only, please! (Look, she doesn't get the network.)]

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[Still engaging in her newcomer's explorations, Lacus finds herself at the sea. It's as comforting a place as she can find in an unknown place, even the air feels lighter, a whisper of familiarity. The ocean is nearly the same everywhere.]

[She notices a pensive woman standing nearby and can't resist saying hello.]

What beautiful markings. [She's never seen an arrow-shaped mark before.]

[Jinora offers the stranger a smile. That's the first time she's ever been complimented on her tattoos. Then again, she has only had them for a handful of hours.]

Thank you, but I haven't earned them yet.

Oh? Well then, I suppose you're all ready for when you do. They look quite at home where they are.

[Curiosity isn't something Lacus avoids when it strikes. She has a deep interest in learning about people.] How would you earn them?

Thank you. I appreciate that.

[Jinora is more than willing to share.] I have to master all thirty-six airbending tiers. I'm ten, usually... there are still plenty of things I need to learn.

I'm Jinora.

Hello, Jinora. I'm Lacus Clyne. And I'm afraid I've never heard of airbending, but I would enjoy learning.

[Her smile quirks just slightly,] Am I to guess your newfound adulthood is one of the curses I've heard about?

[She bows respectfully.] I'm pleased to meet you, Lacus, and I'd be more than happy to explain the basics later.

Unfortunately, yes. Are you cursed?

[She brings a finger to her lip, tapping lightly.] I don't believe I am. I would think it's a thing one notices right off, and I haven't.

Am I right that most of the time one knows definitively what effects a curse has?

I don't think so. Someone very close to me lost her memories of the City during a curse. She wouldn't believe that she was cursed.

That hasn't happened to me, though. I know when I'm cursed.

Oh, dear. I can imagine that would be disorienting for your friend. Hopefully she recovered well.

But it is fortunate that you're aware of it -- although I can't believe suddenly being grown-up would be easy to miss.

I wouldn't say well, but she'll be fine.

[Jinora grins and, again, touches the blue arrow on her forehead.] No, that one was obvious. Sometimes only the body is affected by curses; sometimes the mind is changed as well.

I've heard that, yes. I must admit, to someone who hasn't experienced one these curses sound more than a little disturbing. But it seems not all of them are so terrible. [Since this woman seems calm enough about the whole thing.]

And even the curses that are harder to get through end. That's a comfort.

So it is. [Her smile brightens a few degrees, for it's lovely to find someone who is focused on the better side of things rather than the worst of it.] I must admit, I'm rather curious about the whole process, since I haven't been effected as yet.

[If you can't change the way of things, it's wisest to accept the world as it is.] Process? I don't know if there's a process, but when you learn, I hope it's during a good curse.

[She couldn't agree more.] As do I. It's a troubling prospect, but I'm relieved that it's not all doom-and-gloom.