Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.


She awoke to a downpour. Fat drops of water drowning everything in its path. She had never seen anything like it.

"Monsoon season, My Lord," came the amused answer to her unasked question.

"Monsoon?"

Her servant smiled, reciting a Fire Nation poem for the sleepy waterbender.

"Summer fire scorches

Tender earth for its rebirth,

Water nourishes."

At her confused expression the servant continued. "Summer brings fire to scorch the land. Monsoon season follows, smothering the fires and replenishing the earth for next year's harvest. Both are equally celebrated in the Fire Nation. Ying and Yang."

"Tu and La." Katara smiled.