Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
She could feel the eyes of the unseen as she made her way into the water. The Elders told stories of ancient spirits who oversaw the challengers, selecting future chiefs from the bravest, most skilled warriors while sending the less-than-worthy to watery graves. She'd never really believed the stories, until now.
There was a strange, unpleasant energy here. Aang had told her of spots all over the world where the spirit realm leaked into theirs. In these places, where the veil between the realms was thinner, spirits could sometime slip through.
She wondered if the reverse was true as well.
