Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Waiting was the hardest part. Instinctively her fingers twitched for her waterskins, demanding she react to the earthen gloves hurtling towards her.
However, tonight she wasn't a waterbender.
Discreetly she summoned a thick fog cover as the first of the earthen gloves struck to her right. Like a leaf on the wind, she wove between the attacks effortlessly, like Aang had taught her. Rising from the dust and fog, she slowly turned her head, the hollowed eyes of the Blue Spirit mask staring down the Dai Li.
She had their attention. Now it was time for a performance to remember.
