10 - [video] Why are there so many of them?

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[The camera turns on to show a quick flash of Zuko's face, looking thoroughly at a loss, before it swings around to pan over an empty hospital room. Well, empty as in devoid of patients.

Instead, it is filled with about two dozen colorful little....things... sitting on the furniture, some of them bouncing or swaying a bit. They turn to stare at the camera and presumably Zuko.]

Hey, Kusuri-Uri.   [he sounds half-amused, half exasperated]  I was taking a walk and... I think I've found some more of your measuring scales.

What do I do with them? They're looking at me...

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[meat4all.livejournal.com]

Measuring scales don't have eyes.

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[forged_anew]

These ones do.

[He turns on the video so Sokka can see a line of these things bouncing along behind Zuko in the hospital hallway]

[meat4all.livejournal.com]

Those things are not measuring scales!

[forged_anew]

Well, they're not mine, so I can't really tell you about it, but their owner told me they were. And he's a pretty trustworthy guy, so I believe him.

Said they measure the distance between them and...something not of this world. Whatever that means.

[shrug] They seem harmless enough. I think they like me.

[meat4all.livejournal.com]

Well if he said they were I guess they must be...

I think their kind of creepy looking. They way they stare at you with their little beady eyes.

[forged_anew]

They are rather odd. They keep following me around.

[He pans out the camera to show the line of them dancing along behind him as he walks around the hallway]

[meat4all.livejournal.com]

[Aaaand Sokka starts laughing because oh god Zuko's being followed around by cute little things. It amuses him.]

They must really like you huh?

[forged_anew]

Looks like it. And they... jingle. And dance.

[the camera's still focusing on the scales, proving his point]

It's somewhere between really irritating and kind of amusing.