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


She was beginning to hate red. She was surrounded by it, drowning in it, with no familiar blue to soothe, no uplifting yellow to soar, not even a familiar green to ground her. A sea of red surrounded her, suffocating her.

Her life blurred into a routine of meetings, paperwork and pretentious social gatherings. False smiles greeted her, insincere reverence followed her; she was surrounded by enemies. Though Iroh guided her, she still felt incompetent. Like a leaf lost to the wind she was spiraling out of control.

She missed her friends, her family and her home. She missed Aang.