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


Instinctively she dropped into a defensive stance, water whips ready.

"My Lord-?" Li Yu was at her side, hesitantly reaching for her. All traces of former playfulness were gone.

The tea steamed from the floor beside her, the table having toppled at some point.

"Sorry, old habits," Katara whispered no longer seeing her room, but a flame engulfed, war torn arena; a crazed Fire Nation princess's fingers crackling with blue lightning just inches from her nose and Zuko lying still as death. Her heart pounded, adrenaline pumping through her body. "It's just a storm," she breathed. "It's just a storm."