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


Katara stared in disbelief. The tribe worked together, hunting and gathering to supply all. No one man or woman was owed more, not even the chief or elders. She'd always assumed the Fire Nation, with their mechanical precision during the war, functioned the same.

Clearly she'd been mistaken. Even more disturbing, there was a whole sub-society she'd been unaware of. She felt like she would never understand the complexity of this kingdom.

"That's why the nobles were upset during the Fire Festival," the boy explained. "Never before has a peasant risen in rank. Mother says I was just born lucky."