She goes to Dao's house after her first earthbending lesson. "Shifu Riko is a strange person," she remarks.
Beila's next lesson lasts longer, and she shows up at Dao's, visibly exhausted, dry of perspiration thanks only to the constant play of wind around her. She flops onto him and groans.
"Today the earth was mad at me and it decided to show its displeasure in the form of a tiny madwoman."
"She said I wasn't listening to the earth, and if it was so hard, I should see how much harder it would be to get rocks to move by brute force, and I spent most of the day carrying chunks of stone around. As in, in my arms. And you know how I can barely walk without airbending? That does not get easier when I'm carrying something heavy, I fell over a lot. Occasionally under the heavy rocks. This is me after fixing up a lot of bruises as best I could. I don't think this is standard earthbender training."
"If she tries to get me to do that again I'm signing up with a regular dojo," says Beila, shaking her head.
"But I dunno, maybe tomorrow all of this boulder-hauling will have granted me special insight and I'll be able to bend the earth like I have its children hostage."
"I think she might actually carry rocks in her hair so she can have them available in a pinch. Sort of like how metalbender cops like Chali wear metal armor," shrugs Beila.
"Anyway. I don't wanna walk anywhere right now, but we could hop on Liqing and catch a movie or something? Sit in the nice rock-free theater," snorts Beila.
Available are two romances, a comedy, another bloodbending-horror movie (sequel to the one they saw on their first date), an action-bending flick, and something historical about the Kyoshi Warriors.