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


He caught her concerned look. Patting the worn stand, he smiled. "It's not much to look at, but I can fix it. What's important is for the first time we're able to sell papa's catch in the market."

She paused, the shark-squid halfway to her mouth. "You couldn't sell before? Why?"

The boy shrugged. "Only the merchant class is allowed to sell in the market. We used to have to sell papa's catch to the merchants who would then sell the catch. If anything sold, we'd get a small portion of the money, but if it didn't we got nothing."