Whoa, this kid was beyond easy to scare – and did he say he had a sister? Yowza. The womanizing sliver of his brain just went into melt-down.

"Do I [i]look[/i] like the type to beat someone up?" he asked sarcastically, before realising that, yes – yes he really did. "Don't answer that," he continued hastily. "Look, I just need you to take my drunk ass to Gensu. A tour guide for the area, and a pack mule." He heaved his sack of semi-clean clothes and miscellaneous trinkets off his shoulders, untying the rope and dumping it at the brat's feet.

He didn't really need to pay the scaredy-cat little earthbender who apparently had a backbone when there were no swords in sight. Maybe he was getting soft in his old age.

"Is your sis on the way?"