Meet the Family (Open)

Chibi licked Gav's head and chased the orb, sliding into the dirt and pawing it around, looking more like a giant cat than a badger.

Eriyana gulped down the last bite of toast and went back into the house for a moment, coming back out with a nearly perfect straight nail, it was still a bit curved, but decent for use. The rest of them were melded together into a ball. "...uh... close enough?"

Gav laughed. "Yeah, close enough." He sat with Chibi a moment as the giant badgermole played with the orb.

"So..." Gav said, "What do you want to do today?" He had no clue himself, and had quite a bit of time before his next match.

Chibi rolled onto his side and played with the orb for a while longer.

Eriyana thought to herself for a moment, wondering if Gav had noticed the rare ore that she had left with Lin. "Well... I guess we could practice more. With your metal bending you might be able to help me find ore easier. We'll pool our findings together and can split them after we're done." She smiled, thinking it would be fun to go mine-hunting with someone else. "Just don't run into me this time"

Gav smiled. "Sure thing" he said.

He peered down the 'chimney' Chibi had made the night before. "Maybe Chibi found something last night..." he pondered.

He jumped down, earthbending to land softly. He used his vibration sight to see if there was anything nearby. He didn't notice anything outright.

"Come on down!" he shouted, "maybe theres something down here!"

Eriyana slid down the tunnel with her earthbending. After getting to the bottom and seeing gav, she put her fists together and kept them like that, using a special crystal bending technique she had been working on.

There was a very faint pulse from the wall for a moment, something small a little bit inside. "There, did you feel that?" She punched through the stone wall, stomping her foot with the punch and then again as she pulled it out, a chunk of rock slid out and fell to the ground.

Eriyana reached into the hole she had made and pulled out a small chunk of raw sapphire. "Not too bad, once I learn metal bending I can do almost the same thing with ore too."

Gav chuckled. "Not bad. Watch this." He placed his hands against the wall, concentrating. When he drew his hands away a stream of metal dust followed. He condensed the dust into a rough ball of metal. "Now this is raw iron. The problem is that it's unprocessed, so there's not much you can do with it."

Eriyana looked at the ball of metal for a moment, confused at what she had just seen. "I didn't know raw iron came in a dust form... I thought all raw metals were just randomly shaped lumps of whatever materials it was made from.

She took the lump of sapphire and made delicate motions with her hands and fingers, slowly shaping the lump into a wonderful crystal bracelet. "This is normally how I carry them if not in my bag"

"Well, sometimes they're dust, sometimes they're lumps. I drew this out as a dust so that i didn't have to move all the rock. This way is easier" Gav explained, "Plus, iron is usually found as veins within other rocks. When you see a rock that looks rusted, it has a high iron content."

He watched her bend the crystal into a bracelet. "That's pretty awesome" he said.

Eriyana nodded proudly. "Yeah, crystal bending isn't really a combat thing, but it can work for crystal weapons. It's mostly taught to mining families. Like mine." She stomped her foot on the ground again, twisting it slightly and sensing something else in the wall. Eriyana walked over to where Gav had pulled the metal dust out of the wall. She pressed her fist against it, hoping to be able to draw something else out.

She closed her eyes and drew her free hand into a fist, slowly pulling it back as if pulling on an invisible rope.

Gav watched as a thick stream of metal dust poured from the rocks. "Impressive!" he said.