[The Rabbithole:Ai-Ling/Miki]
The South Pole is really cold. That's what Ai-Ling decided within seconds of Appa setting down on the ice. It's cold, but there are seals and penguins and Miki.And this last one's the most important.
There're also sisters in law and fathers in law and mothers in laws and aunts in law and more family than Ai-Ling's ever had in her life. This manages, just about, to make up for the cold.
Sometimes, though, she still gets homesick. And sometimes she gets really sick. And this morning, when Miki left her feeling sorry for herself to join the early morning hunt, she decided to pay a visit to her new mother in law and sit and talk for a long time over tea. It was rather overwhelming, actually, and Ai-Ling ran away quickly after Steph kept hugging her.
Now she's alone in their own hut, having set the fire and done all the things she's supposed to as a good wife, huggin her knees and staring at the door, waiting for her husband to return.