Two Lives To Live

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One day in the crowded streets of Novila, a young woman sat against the edge of a beautiful blue fountain. She began to write…………………………………………

In a parallel universe much like our own, all the same people live, but they live much different lives. Women in this world aren't allowed to bend on penalty of death. And for another this world is 100 years behind our own. In this world, the war is just beginning. This is how the war began and how it couldn't be stopped.

To set the stage, a young girl about age thirteen went about her life living in a small village in the Earth Kingdom. She lived with her mother and brother. Her father was dead. Her mother baked for a living and because of the limited income they lived on the bare minimum.

Their home was a small hut with two rooms, a bedroom and a kitchen. The larger room was the kitchen. The girl was pretty, she wasn't your typical Earth Kingdom beauty however, and she had light blue eyes and almost red brown curly hair. Her looks were the envy of many even though she looked different from the norm. She always craved more then she had, but then so did many others…..

The young woman paused her pen and began to look about her again, searching for another character. She had added the young girl from earlier who had given her the instructions on how to get here, after all she had been clearly very intelligent but it was apparent that she was also very out of place, but who else should she include? Not just anyone would do. How about…no, to ordinary, or maybe…..na, too simple, wait… yes!

"Hay you!" The young man looked up and then walked over.

Her pen was poised eagerly over her pad, "What's your name," she looked up at him expectantly, "hurry up, I don't have all day!" she huffed, her cheery mood quickly vaporizing.

"Ah, Jet..." He leaned back against the fountain, typical straw in his mouth.

"Perfect you'll do, now I'm going to need you to tell me a little something about yourself. Think carefully, this could alter your life." She meant it, what she wrote on these pages could change the lives of all that graced them. She had seen it before and she knew she would see it again. She felt hardly any guilt however, she gave them warnings and who hadn't heard the saying, Goddesses just want to have fun?

" Well, I'm a freedom fighter, me and my crew fight back against the Fire Nation." Perfect! This guy could easily slip into her story, well more like into his other life.

'Thank you, have a nice day." Jet gave her a very odd look, shrugged and then walked away.

Back to the other universe…

At the same time, a young man of 15 by the name of Jet was working in his fathers shed. He was your average Earth Kingdom carpenter like his father. He lived in the Earth Kingdom city of Ba Sing Se. He had a normal life, a family that loved him, but he craved more…

I think for now that does him justice, I mean what was he before becoming a freedom fighter, no one special! He had potential in this story for sure. He could make something of himself, however it was his choice.

"I think I'll let them sit on that for a while and then come back when they actually have a plot line." She looked back down at her pad waiting in anticipation for more words to appear and for the story to really begin. What goddess doesn't like to mess with parallel universes?

A little odd…? Please R&R