[Tiva]

Ari turned a gold piece in her hand. "I don't want the incident reported, it will come back to bite me in the ass with both my cousin and my father. I shouldn't flaunt my wealth or use my status to make things easier for myself or others. Also, I am rather embarrassed to say I don't remember your name Madam Council Woman so it would be hard to deny to my superiors that you were lying when I can't remember who you are to defend myself." The speech was one that had been beaten into her and her cousin at a young age, people used you for your status and if you acted like you could just hand out favors you would be up to your neck in men and women that would trade anything for a better status. Those weren't the people you wanted to be around.
Shrugging off the conversation she looked at the water, the gentle lapping was calming and reminded her of Ember Isle. "The north pole, it sounds nice.. I have wished to see where the Admiral failed and was forced to be destroyed by the Water spirit. The fact that your tribes spirits even took a human form is interesting to me. Though it has been said that they all do have other forms to visit the human world in, but those are just myths yours you see every day."
She rubbed the back of her neck, her mark itched but considering the heat of her vest it wasn't abnormal, up to the 20th in line the fire nation Royal family was marked though to have the 30th marked wasn't odd as they were all marked in their early teens and once they had children where moved further back in the line and had their mark added to. Her father had given her tricks on how to keep the mark cool but the water lilly pad on her neck must have dried out.