We lost Appa. I'm not sure exactly what happened while we were in that library, but I know Toph tried everything in her limited power to keep him from being stolen. I mean, she is blind after all.. though we can sometimes forget that because her "sight" is so good. Today has just been an incredibly event-filled day for us, probably no more than usual though.
Okay, let's review from the beginning. Aang, hyper as usual, got us up bright and early because we were getting started on our mini-vacations today. He took us to a place at the edge of the vast desert that covers nearly half the Earth Kingdom it seems. There were little animals all over the place, gopher somethings, I don't remember what Aang called them. They kept popping out of the ground and mimicking the note Aang would play on his flute and they were so cute!
Anyway, it was time for me to decide where I wanted to go so we went to this natural ice spring. It wasn't very nice. I had a taste of Sokka's drink and it wasn't bad, but the place was still filthy. We ran into a professor from Ba Sing Se University and ended up going over the desert to find Wan Shi Tong's spirit library. That was Sokka's vacation. It was quite odd.
We did find some interesting information on the Fire Nation though, but it almost cost us our lives. There's going to be a solar eclipse this summer.. and the firebenders lose their bending during an eclipse. Kind of like what happened at the North Pole with the waterbenders. Anyway, we need to get this information to the Earth King so he can lead an attack on the Fire Nation armies that day. We were almost buried in that library when Wan Shi Tong found out our intentions.
Toph did everything she could to keep us from getting sucked into the ground, but because she was using both hands to keep us up, she couldn't protect Appa when the sandbenders stole him. Well, needless to say, Aang freaked and went off on her and I was left to defend her. He took off to find him and didn't come back until.. well, just a little while ago. We stopped to rest a little and I think it's about time to pick up again. I don't think Aang slept at all. I'm worried about him. I hope we survive this.
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Uncle has been complaining a lot. I know he was injured, but he was also healed so he has no excuse, but I have to put up with it until I deem it necessary to tell him why there's no mark. I'm sort of hesitant to tell him we're in debt to the Avatar's girlfriend. He says there's just internal damage, but I know the waterbender girl healed him all the way. I may not like her, but I trust her that much.
We had a run-in with the Rough Rhinos yesterday. That was fun. Not really. Uncle seemed to know them, another question I'll have to ask later. We stopped in some grungy place for help. I wasn't sure what kind of help he wanted to find in a place like that, everyone in there looked like filthy bounty hunters or something and Uncle knows we're wanted. He ended up playing Pai Sho with another old geezer and I caught something about a White Lotus Order. Then we were almost attacked by two earthbenders, but everyone else in that place attacked them trying to claim us for themselves I suppose, and the old guy snuck us out.
We went to some flower shop and I got the door slammed in my face when I tried to follow them in their back room. Oh, how I wanted to just burn it down to a crisp, but they were trying to help.. and it was a Member's Only thing. At least the place smelled decent. It was filled with flowers, of course.
Now we're heading to Ba Sing Se. They got us passports and everything. I was surprised at how resourceful my uncle can be sometimes. I still wasn't comfortable about going into the heart of our enemy nation, but he assured me that we'd be safe there because we'd blend in with all the other refugees. I'm a refugee. How pathetic is that? I can't believe I let myself get this far down in the social standings. I was a prince. A PRINCE! Now I'm nothing more than a filthy lowlife peasant. It's disgusting.
The guy that helped us out of that town (in a flower pot!) gave us directions to get to the ferrys. The food is going to be disgusting, I can already tell. Tons of refugees ride them everyday and no one makes decent meals for people like that, even in the Fire Nation. This is going to be horrible.
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R&R!
Jenn
