Tenzin freaking out in a good way for once?

[spiralmovements]

A teletype from Air Temple Island proper:

CMDR BUMI
UNITED FORCES FLEET
OUTPOST, KYOSHI ISLAND

I AM GOING TO BE A FATHER
SPIRITS HELP US ALL

TENZIN

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[spiralmovements]

"Have you really been asking around about such things?"

[abitofawildman]

"Are you really that surprised?"

[spiralmovements]

"...No. Not really."

[abitofawildman]

Bumi just laughs.

"So you're just aimlessly wandering the island, aren't you?"

[spiralmovements]

"No, I'm at the phone."

But before...

[abitofawildman]

"Well yes, obviously. Well then I'm doubly glad to get a chance to talk to you. Keep you from permanently disfiguring the walk ways with all your pacing."

[spiralmovements]

"Air scooter too."

[abitofawildman]

"My mental image of the goings on is both spectacular and hilarious. I'm so very sorry to be missing all of it."

That last part? Is very sincere.

[spiralmovements]

"Your furlough comes in soon though?"

[abitofawildman]

"Well, it should. And probably would have sooner had we not...we hit the Fire Nation, Tenzin."

[spiralmovements]

"And you wonder why I ask what happened?"

[abitofawildman]

Oh here we go.

"No one got hurt, there's just a tiny breach in the hull. That's all."

[spiralmovements]

"Do I have to hide the newspapers from Mom?"

[abitofawildman]

"I hope not, but just in case if you could impress upon Pema that now would be a good time for a baby, that'd be great. Tell her I'd owe her one."

He's mostly kidding.

[spiralmovements]

"I'll put in your request, Commander."

[abitofawildman]

"I've spent the better part of the last day doing damage control. It's really a minor story and shouldn't make the papers. It most certainly wouldn't if I hadn't been on board at the time. Such is life.

I keep telling the higher ups that It Just Jumped out in front of us! That Everything Changed When the Fire Nation Attacked!"

[spiralmovements]

Ugh.

"You sound like Uncle Sokka and Mom telling stories."

[abitofawildman]

"You're not saying that's a bad thing, are you?"

[spiralmovements]

"No."

It's never a bad thing to sound like Uncle Sokka.

[abitofawildman]

Good. Because the only person Bumi is more protective of than Tenzin, is Sokka.

Mom can handle herself.

"That's the correct answer," he says with the smile returning to his voice. "Fat lot of good it did anyway, no one seemed to laugh. Always a bad sign."

[spiralmovements]

"It's alright though - Pema still thinks you're funny."

[abitofawildman]

"That's hardly a compliment, I mean...look at her taste in men."

[spiralmovements]

"We already knew a sense of humor is not why she loves me."

[abitofawildman]

"That we did, brother," he says laughing. "That we did. And she loves you so much she's producing a little version of you. I don't even love you that much."

[spiralmovements]

"I think the child will be much closer to Pema."

Which has many connotations, really.

Not the least of which is that he has serious doubts about the child having Tenzin's bending.