Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
It was past midnight before she stumbled into her room. Exhausted from hours of waterbending, she nearly missed the letter. If not for the water tribe insignia, she would've left it for the morning.
Her hands shook as she broke the wax seal, eyes quickly scanning the letter for a list of names; a habit from childhood when the warriors would send home parchments listing the deceased. After her mother's death, she'd feared finding her father's name more than anything. Now they were at war again, and she searched for her father and brother's names.
She found neither… this time.
