A/N: This story mentions the death of Aang from the previous chapter.
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Katara – Witch
Everyone was dead. She was the last of Ozai's adversaries. Her brother, her father, Toph, Suki, Zuko, Iroh, Smellerbee, Longshot, and everyone else were all dead.
But one was worse than the others. She had seen his head on the gates, barely shaking in the wind like some parody of a flag. Ozai had defeated him, beheaded him, and made a travesty of the Avatar. Aang seemed to stare down at her, no longer able to smile, and beg for retribution.
Katara was driven to madness. She dreamed of bloodbending the Phoenix King and she set out to do so. But she was easily caught, tortured, and eventually put on trial. Her hair fell in curtains around her bruised face as she heard the high judge proclaim her guilty of attempted murder of the great King Ozai and numerous other counts of traitorous actions. Her sentence was death by the Phoenix King's choosing. Until then, she would remain imprisoned.
The soldiers beat her endlessly. She could not resist the gnawing urge to bloodbend them. It brought her strange comfort to see her guards bashing their heads against stone walls without knowing why. Soon they realized that the Water Witch was cursing them, and they tightly bound her arms and legs.
Perhaps finding irony in her situation, Ozai sentenced her to a public drowning. His soldiers wrapped a sign around her neck that read, "The Water Witch will learn to swim." They tied stones to her feet and threw her unceremoniously off the edge of the pier.
Sinking beneath the calm waves, she made a decision. She was tired of being alone. Her body ached as much as her spirit and she was disgusted with this life. Now she was only a witch to these people.
Katara took a deep breath.
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