Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
She groaned at the heap of paperwork on her desk. Bureaucracy was killing her. Flipping through the parchments, she was again struck by the differences in their cultures. In the Water Tribe elders would meet, a decision would be made and then implemented. In the Fire Nation she was on her third round of paperwork for a decree she'd made during the Fire Festival.
Apparently, even as Fire Lord, her word was not immediately law. Or maybe it was simply because she was a waterbender. She wondered if Zuko's orders would've been challenged.
Either way, Tatsuo was becoming dangerously impatient.
