Chapter 2

When I awoke, I was standing. A man with long white hair that was placed into a small bun, long side burns, and red armor, was standing across from me.

"Where am I?" I asked the man. I looked around me, I was surrounded by a swamp like aria, everything was bathed in an odd yellow and peach light.

"I'm sorry to inform you that you are now in the spirit world, my dear." The man said, and muttered something that sounded something like, 'So young.'

My mind frayed, 'Spirit world? He couldn't possibly mean that I was died, could he?'

"Do you mean to say that I'm…"

"Died?" The man chuckled, but then frowned sincerely, "Yes, my child, you are."

Something inside of me fell apart, I was never to see my family, my home, my friends, none of them, not ever again. I had been killed by the hands of my cousin. The man put a hand on my shoulder

"My name is Iroh," said the man smiling. "There is much we must talk about."

I smiled weakly back at the man and he led me over to small house in the middle of the swamp.

The house was small but it made up in extravagance. It had the look of an old Chinese Temple, the roof was red and horned and the walls were white and glossy.

Inside, rich rugs hung on the walls, showing beautiful imagery of fire breathing dragons and men dressed in old Chinese looking outfits, mountains and hills in covered in a yellow grass hung at the bottom and red skies at the top. A small table sat low to the ground, on it, it held a steaming pot of tea. An extravagant looking dresser steeled itself on the left of the room and a small mattress lay on the right. Iroh sat down on the floor next to the table.

"Sit," he said and gestured to the other side of the table. I was still in shock; hesitantly I took my seat across from Iroh.

"Have some tea." He said handing me a cup of the hot brow liquid, and taking out a new cup for himself.

We sat in the silence sipping our tea for a while before Iroh looked up to my eyes with a stern face and said: "Your heart is pure and true; there are not many souls you're yours in the spirit world." He sighed then continued, "The Avatar Spirit and I have a plan for you…"