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AS IT HAPPENS,Hika is not the best teacher. Though Hoji is the earthbender, Aang didn't even know the forms, so Hika thought it easiest if she were to teach him. Her brother doing such wouldn't work with their current communication status, but Aang started getting confused with Hika would try and teach. Apparently making sounds such as 'bam!' or 'shmack!' and saying, 'I'm just not understaindin' where ya' gettin' lost, here.' doesn't translate over well for the Avatar.
So, Hika sits on a malformed and oversized chunk of earth she bent— it isn't necessarily oversized, but it has enough space for quite a few people— while Hoji teaches Aang in a much more efficient way.
The two boys interact in a clearing of sorts, just between the farm and where the trio had been staying. They were enclosed by the extending land of Hika's family's territory, which had yet to be turned into plowable land, and a rice field curtained by the overgrowth of some cattails Hika has been wanting to get around to thinning out, but has never actually done it.
The open space was never truly enough for Hika to learn. Such that, when she tried, she wrecked havoc on one of the plots in the rice feild. The ankle high water in which they thrive in still hasn't reached its past fullness, and the ground is still rocky and harsh to walk on barefoot. That's exactly why she is not standing in the horse position next to the Avatar and Hoji is.
He says something to Aang, pointing to how, when he was grounded in his stance, his breathing was a different, engaged style. When Aang responds, Hika translates it to Hoji. Not with her hands, but by kicking her leg into the raised platform of earth she sat on.
Sokka leans against that same block as well, arms crossed with a leg kicked against the rock for balance. It startles him when Hika makes the earth shake for Hoji— she didn't care to attempt at secrecy at the time. Occasionally he would ask about earthbending or what she was translating between Hoji and Aang.
The grass Hoji and Aang planted their feet in is soft, dirt still a little damp, with a certain musky freshness to it. Hika has always debated taking off her boots and bending barefoot, maybe there was a chance she could bend half as good as her brother if she did, but she'd remember the impracticality that being barefoot is. Feet were essential— no, legs— in her line of work, and bending. If she'd happen to step on a nail, if one of their animals, each easily weighing over 200 pounds unless it were a calf of piglet, were to squash her foot, she'd be out a way to walk for at least a few weeks.
And she was fairly needed. No one could cut cows the way Hika could...
Yet Hika had no time to be thinking about the chore of hers— she did, and she was, some of the calfs needed to be scored, they weren't growing as fast as Hika would've liked— when the Avatar was being taught the basics of earthbending on her families farm. Only so many meters in front of the two bistanders, what might soon be a historical moment could occur.
