Race, class, politics, and belief. Two decades after the end of the Hundred Year War the city of Ba Sing Se is changing. At the river harbor foreign ships unload their cargo, in the inner rings professors and ministers debate the fate of the nation, and in the shadowed alleys new magic emerges. Ayika is a poor servant but she will be at the heart of a crisis in this new world.

One day my Father and I gets a knock on our door at dinner, and from that moment on a girl stays in our basement. I don't know who she is, but I do know she can bend more than one element and if anyone finds out about our guest, we could be killed. My Father tell me to not ask questions, but why is she in our home, we're supposed to hate benders? KORRASAMI