"Daddy used to do it a lot. I'd never done it before, so - " Well, she was just glad it had worked. There hadn't been time to get grandpa who was also Gore anyway, so she'd had to do it on her own. If asked, she'd say she wasn't the best airbender - she had faith in her skills, but she was learning still, and her grandfather and father were masters. And Jinora had more experience...although Jinora also hadn't had ten months training under Avatar Aang.

"People just arrive late sometimes. I think Shikamaru's really happy you're here, though. He told me a bit about both of you when I first met him. That was...wayyyy back on the day I first go here. We were at the fountain, and he did a shadow puppet show." Technically, Ikki tries not to talk about that, because keeping people's powers a secret was something she'd been asked to do - but Chouji clearly already knows Shikamaru's shadow thing, so she doesn't mind saying.