"I have a new job for you."
"What, burning down another village?" The girl asked sourly. The man scowled.
"No. This is far more important."
"Then why don't you do it yourself?"
"YOU DON'T TALK BACK AT ME!" The fire around the man exploded. The girl flinched, backing away from the heat, threatening to grow closer. When the fire receeded, the man wore a huge frown on his face. "Your job is to find the avatar." The girl's eyes grew wide in disbeleif.
"The avatar was killed in Ba Sing Se. You of all people know that."
"I'm really suppossed to believe that the avatar, surviving in an iceberg for on hundred years, could be destroyed by a little lightning? My daughter asked Zuko if there was any possible way he could have surived. Her exact words were 'He said there was no way, but his eyes gave him away. The avatar's alive.' My son has always been a bad liar."
"So what am I to do after I find him?"
"Gain his trust, and the trust of his pathetic followers. Once he has let his guard down, you lead him right into my clutches."
"How long do I have?"
"If I'm feeling merciful you'll have one month. If I'm feeling more like my normal self, you may have just two weeks to hunt him down and bring him back."
"And if I refuse?"
"You know very well the penalty for refusing!" He held fire playfully in his hands, an evil smile on his face. "I'm not afraid to demonstrate yet again what would happen if you were to fail me."
The playfull fire turned into a whip of flame, whos tip struck her upper left arm in a single flick of the wrist. She clutched her arm as a reaction to the stinging pain she had felt in numerous places of her body.
"Don't fail. Or perhaps you'll have to learn the hard way, like my son. Forever a mark of shame, the one you can't hide, all over your face. Unlike the rest of the scars you try to cover up." He threatened.
The girl stood up straight again.
"Alright. I'll find him."
"Swear to it!"
"I swear."