"Not exactly. Seems like a lot of people around here have magic abilities or something like that though."

She's keen on giving this whole follow a wall thing a try and so soon Mai's fingertips lay against the wall next to her while she holds her own flame in her other hand.

"Where I'm from, it's nothing like that. It's not magic, I mean. It's just part of nature, you could say. I guess, I don't know, I really don't know anything about the whole philosophical side of it."

Well, beyond the idea that dragons were the first firebenders. That's about where her knowledge stops.