A/N: Sorry about the long pause. I've been away with my brother (Who I haven't seen for 2.5 years), so I have no time to post. Also, I got work now :D so, yeah, even less writing will get done by me. (Sorry, guys!)
We'd been on the road for some time now. I was beginning to wonder if poor Mangy could handle carrying old Iroh plus myself and Zuko, so I decided to walk. The two gents protested, but I was getting a sore butt from sitting all day. Most uncomfortable. Sore feet are preferable. But not, sore feet, sore eyes, and sore tum-tum from lack of food.
"Argh," I groaned from my spot by Mangy's head. "I'm bored!"
Mangy made a weird hissing noise, and before either of the other two could respond to me, I responded to the bird-horse-thing.
"Let's do something, Mangy! What are you doing? Walking?"
Mangy cawed back.
"Yeah! What's wrong with Mangy?"
"Amaya?" Zuko was, naturally, ignored.
Mangy made a clicky noise.
"Yeah! Mangy!"
"Rawk!"
"Dude, you know I don't have time for pauses. My brain goes too fast for that," I answered flippantly. "What, Zuko?"
"Are you...talking to the ostrich horse?"
"...Yes, yes I am...Hey, what's that?" I pointed off in the distance at what could just be made out as the edge of a desert.
"A desert," Iroh answered cheerfully.
"Cool, let's not," I answered just as cheerfully. "Onwards minions!"