Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
She made a mental note to discuss security with Mai and Suki as she crept through the suspiciously empty hallway. The thought that an intruder could enter her palace so easily, reach Zuko or her so effortlessly, made her skin crawl.
She'd anticipated Dai Li agents, Earth Kingdom soldiers, or even the unlucky stray servant. Instead only abandoned stretches of palace hallways greeted her. Either King Kuei had the worst security imaginable, or she was walking right into a trap.
Katara suspected the later.
Pausing before the elaborately carved gold doors, Katara realized the next few minutes would change everything.
