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"This is ridiculous! It's just a superstition!"
"Perhaps, but it's one the lower classes take very seriously. Your enemies will use this to further the civil unrest and weaken your reign. An omen such as this is nothing to sneer at Katara. Surely your tribe carries similar customs."
Once again she was forced to re-examine Water Tribe traditions. It seemed Iroh had a knack for challenging her worldviews.
Unconsciously her hand drifted to her mother's necklace, fingers tracing the pattern at her throat. Tradition demanded the dead's names remain unspoken, for fear of inviting in vengeful spirits. "Yes, of course."
