Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.


The hardest part of this intricate ruse was bending without her usual gestures. Every movement required precision execution beneath the carefully placed camouflage to create the illusion of otherworldly powers; an essential point of her plot to convince the Earth King she was a spirit.

A cold chill settled into the room, tendrils of ice snaking up the walls. Kuei's breath came in quick puffs, the frigid condensation turning his nose red. His eyes bugged as his feet left the ground, unaware it was bloodbending levitating him and not a wrathful spirit.

Finally face-to-face she stared down the terrified king.