I always wanted to read about the Bei Fong family. And no story covered quite what I thought. And so I decided to give it a try. It's simply chronicles about all the Bei Fong from Toph to Suyin and her family to Lin. There no time frame or linear storytelling and thus the chronicles principles. ^^ Have fun readers.

Welcome to the flying-boar family.

The dessert was amazing. She had heard rumors of its magnificence views, dunes and such, but never had she imagined that.

Of all she could see in front of the, the most impressive thing she noticed was the sandbender far away, surfing in the solf sand under him. He was one with the element and Suyin felt inspire and envious of his talent, its freedom.

She imagined herself with the same abilities, sure her mother had shown her a couple of great sandbending forms, but Suyin had never really listened to her mother lesson. Or rather, she had never fully used her potential, preferring to hang up with her friends in Republic city much to her sister frustration.

With the recent exodus she had to take, it had left her with no choice really. Staying with her grandparents was not an option. The Bei Fong was not known to be fun folk. Tradition and boredom was their cup of tea and the young bender was not going to be caged by her grandparents. Therefore at the first occasion, she had left the domain and went for adventure. Leaving behind a small note to tell her grandparents what was her plan or the lack of.

Freedom was something she craved. She did not find happiness in Repuplic City. Her mother was never really at home and her sister was miss Perfection in the eyes of their mother or so thought Suyin. She did not find what she sought in the sea with the pirates or with de circus. There was no place to be accomplished for Suyin. She had travel ever since. Looking for happiness, for something to fill the emptiness she felt constantly.

In front of her the sandbender disappeared probably at the bottom of the sand dune he had ride on his surfboard. She could not find him with her seismic sense but she deduced he had finished his course at the bottom of the giant dune.

Suyin went in his direction knowing that the answers laid in the mysteries of the desert.

Soon she reached the sandbender. He kindly ignored her and her attempt to socialize. He really wasn't going to give her the easy going. And so, like mother like daughter, she stubbornly staid in his way, making sure she was right where he would pass with his board. She had her fun in this little fight of the wills. From bending the sand right under his feet, to creating jumps for him to landed she made sure he couldn't ignore her. They had that little game until he was pissed with her and gave her acknowledgement of her presence. Boy, she knew how to be annoying.

''Yes'', he said. His voice, she noticed, was annoyed.

''Hi, hello I'm Suyin'' she replied like nothing had happened.

She assumed she had won that fight.

''I really was impressed by your bending and your skills and thought you could show me how to do it. I'm already a sandbender so all you have to do really is to show me how you do it. It will only take five minutes.''

On that the man left her and went on with his life. He had no time to loose with a tourist who didn't know the way of the desert. All she was skill nothing in her. The way of nomad was not freely or easily gained.

''Please, Suyin she insisted. I made this entire trip and I would hate to have done for nothing. The cities bore me. I don't seem to find my place in it. Buildings, so many people and nobody to listen to each other. I'm bored. Mans have played too much with the earth, it's not pure anymore. We have tamed it to make buildings, to make city, we have shaped it the way we wanted and we didn't ask anything to anyone.''

''I ask not for the skills but for the ways.''

Traveling had changed her from a young angst teen to a full grown woman with a bit of wisdom and a lot to learn.

The man turn on his heel. Had he heard what she had said? She had awakened. He would who her perhaps.

''Fine, I will show you. But put these on first. The sand will damage your eyes and soon you will be blind. I'm sure you don't want that''.

And Suyin was about to replied that there was nothing bad about blindness since her mother could deal with it with so much ease. But seeing the man was not to be humored, she left the topic dead and put the protective glasses on her nose and followed the stranger in the heart of the desert.

The desert unbound its treasure in time. Suyin had learned many secrets. The man had been kind to her. And like her mother and her sister, knew how to play the game. Appear tough. Be a wall, inaccessible. But once she got the know him, she started to like him, and him her. He was named Juni and was the son chief.

The Desert clan was a nomad one. And Suyin was the first outsider to set foot in their improvised camp.

It had taken a while for her to really settle in the Clan since she was not that welcome. The Chief had nearly banned his son for his lack of thinking when he had brought Su along. In fact, the whole Clan hadn't talk Juni for two days. After which they rethink the problem and decided to ignore Su.

That wasn't better in anyway. But at least Juni had regained his place in his Clan. The members incapable to no talk to one of their own for more than two days.

As for Su she had no taken to hard the way they treated her. Sure she was pissed to be snubbed but she knew better than to star hostilities. Her mother had taught one thing she'd never forget. Always look talk, proud and sure of what you're doing. Whatever it takes, make sure the others know where your loyalty lies. Always look in control. And so Suyin had not let the hard words go to her head.

Her heart however couldn't take all that detachment. And it pained her to fight the urge to reply, to strike back. But, she was a Bei Fong and knew better. No pain no gain.

She proved them wrong she learned very fast their ways of living. The where like the Sand. Free carried by and with the wind. Like a delicate dance. But like the sand, altogether, the whole clan united, nobody stood a chance. Like a Sandstorm, all the members knew how to chase to occasional desert thieves and others mild criminals. Like the sand both soft, smooth almost and hard has the rock.

Suyin understood how free they were with so few possession to link them to the earth. They were freer than any man she had met that had pretended to be free. Pirates where not has free. They were limited by the boat, by the laws of the sea. Circus people were not free either has their lives were guides by their customers happy or angry. Bored or impress.

But in the desert, there was no one to look up to, no one to judge you. Only the sky. The members of the Desert clan had understood the ways of the Desert and were living by its telling. A freedom guided by an old wise philosophy.

Yet the freedom was exhilarating. What was there to do with that much space, that much liberty? One night around the bonfire, Su had realised that like Sand, smooth when tenderly caress and harsh when the sandstorm hit.

Their ways of living was a revelation for Suyin. She had looked for so many years to fulfill her heart. And nothing she had done had made things right. Being a jerk to her sister, doing small shoplifting had not sooth her empty heart.

Yet in the middle of nowhere, she felt. She was. She exited. The sky was beautiful. There was no light to veil the stars and Suyin had learnt to appreciate those little moments.

As for the Desert Clan, she stayed with them almost a year before leaving one night without a warning or a goodbye to those who had welcomed her in there heart. She had made friends there. She had seen what Clan were. They were Families. And hers was not in the Desert anymore, but elsewhere. And so she left knowing that they would understand why she had gone with the wind.

Like a grain of sand dancing with the wind, carried away to another place, a better place, she hoped.