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"How did you do that!?" They'd been on the move most of the night, avoiding pursuit, but Aang couldn't keep his questions to himself any longer. Ganto checked to make sure the coast was clear. "I don't know what you're talking about." Jun was the only one out of breath but it didn't take her long to recover. "Are you insane? You could have killed us both back there!" "We're alive. I must not be too crazy." Aang was still having trouble reconciling what he'd seen with what he accepted as normal human ability. Ganto's display of one armed aerial gymnastics followed by at least a thirty foot drop to solid stone was bordering on the impossibl

"Why am I not surprised to find you here?" Startled, the young man jumped and went for his weapon, but an iron grip on his wrist stopped him short.  Face to face in the light of the moon, the two men appraised each other coolly. "Oh, it's you."  The young man sneered and pulled his wrist free, rubbing it.  "Last I heard Ba Sing Se was a free city.  I can come and go as I please." "If the earthbender was home she would have seen you skulking out here." "You said she was blind?" "I also said she uses earthbending to read her surroundings and everything and anyone in them."  He paused. 

The people of Ba Sing Se were never lacking for things to do in their great city, but a chance to see the Avatar in action was a spectacle that few would pass up.  Word spread as the sun rose higher in the sky, and by late morning the Peace Memorial courtyard was bustling with activity and curious onlookers. Driven by all the extra attention, Sokka limped back and forth between his workstation and the memorial fountain, shouting out orders. The slight modifications of his initial diagrams had become massive sweeping changes to the statues.  No detail was too small to escape his notice, but as he constantly reminded them,

Sokka didn't hear his visitor enter the stables until the door shut.  He knew who it was without looking. "Hey, Toph." "Where'd you get the ostrich horses from?" "A gift.  From Master Piandao and Grandmast-err... from Iroh," he stumbled through the explanation.  "It won't be like flying around on Appa, but it'll do."  He finished brushing out the animal's fur and started checking his tack.  "We're leaving as soon as we're packed." "You and Suki," Toph stated without a hint of emotion. "Actually..."  Sokka couldn't look at the young earthbender.  "I was wondering, well,

Preparations were swift and before Zuko knew it, he was back at the Fire Nation Palace, his boots clicking against the marble floor as he hurried through familiar halls.  Mai kept pace at his side but Ty Lee and Toph had remained in Ba Sing Se, along with Iroh, and Zuko found himself wishing again that he could encourage his uncle to come out of retirement.   It would have been nice to have at least one advisor he could trust without a second thought. He stopped at the entrance to the throne room and turned to Mai, smiling with an unspoken apology.  "Wait for me."   She folded her hands into her slee

"Can I try it on?" The grizzled war vet rubbed his shaven chin, brushing the rough whiskers of grey sideburns.  His style hadn't changed much since becoming an officer of the Fire Nation Navy, except for the necessary addition of a black leather patch.  Most people found it intimidating. "Do you know how I lost my eye, boy?" "Pirate attacks?"  He was hoping for a story.   "No.  It was in the North."  He gave the youth a pointed one-eyed look. "Oh."  The young monk rubbed the back of his head in a mixture of embarrassment and shame.  "Heh.  Sorry abo

Suki dipped a cloth into cool water, wringing it out before returning it to Sokka's face.  She dabbed at the sweat beading on his forehead and he watched her with blue irises that seemed too bright against the flush in his skin and the bruise-like shadows under his eyes. "And then what happened?"  He asked, and she could hear the buildup in the back of his throat.  He swallowed and the lines around his eyes tightened.  Between the painful looking inflammation and his rising fever, she was surprised he could even pay attention to her story, but he was hanging on her every word. "Well, after that we dec