Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
She had one chance to convince the Earth King his trusted advisor and friend was actually a puppet controlled by a face-stealing spirit, and that the war was Koh's design to grow his morbid collection of flesh-masks.
It sounded ludicrous when she said it out loud, even to herself.
No matter how she spun the words, they wouldn't come out the way she needed them to. Meanwhile, her tribe was dying.
She frowned at the red paint, too much like blood. Ultimately, the Painted Lady had failed to protect even one simple town; how could she protect a whole country?
