Running Waters, Running Jokes

A missing moment from "Jet," inspired by the screenshot with a certain cartload of produce at the edge of the picture when the floodwaters came rushing in

Gaipan didn't have any earthbending guards, pirates or Avatar living there, and in his experience Fire Nation people ate vegetables just like everyone else, so he'd trundled his cart into the heart of town and began happily selling his wares.

But then that Water Tribe boy had come running in, shouting, and the Fire Nation troops commander had ordered an immediate evacuation! And he'd been ordered to leave his cart behind; the hills outside the village were too steep for bringing it.

The roar of the dam breaking and the floodwaters rushing past drowned out his despairing cry: "My cabbages!"