⇝ t.o.t syndrome.
[` The weather was changing, growing cold and more frequently overcast. It was bundle-up and drink tea season. It's strange to be in Republic City without a large, brightly colored tent to return to, and it's even stranger that she has a temporary home to reside in until the time to travel began. Though for many of the benders in UNE the city was new, it was very familiar to her -- the circus had always had a great turn out in the city; she already misses her freaky family members, their ties had been so much stronger than blood.] [`Her curious eyes do manage to see familiar faces-- though without her eccentric costumes and makeup, there's a severe amount of doubt in her mind that her previous guests would ever recognize the same woman who had emerged from fire on the back of a great armadillo tiger. ] [`its with fingers wrapped around a small plastic cup full of blended fruits that she spots another frequent guest -- a man who had once been so close to the action she'd managed an entire conversation with him just after the show. Wasn't he a bender? -- an Earthbender- Firebender? She stares at him a little too obviously as she struggles to remember his bending nationality ... and his name. She'd never bothered to tell him she was deaf, but she's certain he knew; he had spoken directly towards her the entire time, making it easy for her to lip read. Or maybe he was just one of those polite people that paid attention to others when they held conversation.] Eiji! [`his name tumbles like an idea from her mouth, louder than intended -- because she had remembered it off the tip of her tongue.]
