"Far away, far away, our thoughts are ceaseless
If we can go back to those days
Of when we laughed innocently together..."
Undo
Prologue:
High up on the main tower, cinders flew up in the air. She looked down as her hair whipped up behind her, the wind betraying the once glorious city and blowing the small fires into large blazing gods made of embers that seemed to devour all of the buildings and the people. Some of the cinders touched her skin and burnt it, but she did not flinch towards it.
"Look at this, granddaughter," stated the large man standing next to her, "Today, you see the dawn of the Empire of Fire,"
She blinked and looked at him, "The Empire of Fire,"
"Yes, and when I am gone you shall rule it as well as I have," the man said, "and these lands shall be reunited like they were thousands and thousands of years ago. A new peace shall prevail over the land, and a brand new future for you and your generation and even your children,"
She only looked towards the burning people and buildings in the streets below, "Yes, grandfather,"
The man said, "This is possibly the greatest gift I could have given you, granddaughter – a new hope for your future. What do you say to that?"
She said nothing about it. All she could think about was of her family back in the Fire Nation capital. Her mother. Her father. Her threebrothers. Hertwosisters. All of them alone and wondering about their daughter.
Their little Sadako all grown up.
Sadako could not reply to her grandfather. She could not even speak to think about what was going on around her all. All she could do was think. Think about before. Think about the beginning of everything that was happening to her right now.
'I want to go back,' Sadako thought. She stood on the ledge of the tower and stretched out her arms, 'I want to go back to before,'
Sadako looked out towards the burning city and the screaming of a thousand different souls in pain.
(Go back then, Sadako. Go back to the beginning. Go back to where it all began. Go back and see what happened so long ago to you, Sadako, my love. Go back. Go back. Go back…)
"Then I shall," Sadako breathed.
And she lept from the tower.