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** Anticipation
You wouldn't understand patience if it punched you in the face. This much, you know for a fact.
"Korra, sit down," Tenzin instructs.
You do as he asks - taking a seat on the sun-heated stones – before looking up at him, ready for more instructions.
Tenzin lowers himself onto the ground in front of you. "Now I want you to close your eyes and relax." He shows the steps himself and continues, "Take slow, deep breaths."
Without even a small comment, you close your eyes and let everything drift away from you. The warm air around you feels heavenly in your lungs. It's a stark contrast from the frosty air back home, but you start to find it just as calming.
"Now, picture the air flowing in and out of you," Tenzin's voice reaches through your airy barricade. "See the air currents moving around your body."
Your mind puts together the scene like a jigsaw. The wind moves around your body like waves in the ocean. You start to manipulate the waves just as you would if you were waterbending. Excitement courses through you at the sudden idea, but the sudden emotion causes the wind to curl in on itself until it spirals like a vortex. You struggle to hold onto it, but it's too late. The spiral wind gusts into the sky.
Disappointed, you open your eyes and meet Tenzin's. "I tried."
Tenzin frowns. "You were getting ahead of yourself. Patience is the key, Korra."
"Yeah, yeah I know," you sigh.
Tenzin stands and backs out of the training circle. "You'll understand it soon enough."
You don't offer a response. Instead, you watch Tenzin walk away. With a frustrated groan you fall onto your back and stare into the cloudless sky. "I want to understand it now."
You're the Avatar, of course it will come soon enough, but until then you decide to busy yourself with wind currents that look like waves and vortexes that power themselves with eagerness.
2nd person again. This did not turn out the way I wanted it to at all so I'll probably re-write it later if I have time. I think it's okay though.
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