A.N. – I like Iroh, but I feel he's hard to write for, for some indefinable reason. Ah well. I do not own Avatar: the Last Airbender, or profit from this work in any way.

Prompt: Lightning

Character: Iroh

Words: 150

Rating: K

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Iroh was the Dragon of the West, a Grand Lotus in the Order of the White Lotus, a former general in the world's strongest army. Still, there were things that were beyond even him. He was reminded of this every time he used his own bending creation.

He had done something that no one else before him had – he had taken the sky's manifested fury and redirected it. The coursing of so much power through one individual frightened him just a little bit. It also made him wonder if, in the moment where the lightning flowed through his system, this was the way the Avatar felt all the time?

Iroh's family, always near the forefront of his thoughts, was brought into even sharper relief each time he bent lightning to his will. After all, if he could redirect that, how hard could correcting the paths of his wayward kin be?