So far, Aang was pretty disappointed in Jeong Jeong as a teacher. He needed to learn firebending fast, and this process was anything but.
The fire burned through the leaf, and exploded into a ball of flame in his palm. "Look, Katara! Now this is firebending!" he cried, bouncing the fire back and forth between his palms like he was playing hot potato without the potato. So just hot.
"Be careful, Aang," Katara warned. "Don't get too overconfident!"
But Aang was having too much fun with it. He joyously blew out a wave of fire, but when he looked over to Katara, she cried out in pain as the flame licked her palms.
Aang leapt over to her. "Katara! I'm so sorry!"
"Ow," she groaned again. "No. Don't be sorry. Is this… the first time one of us has been burnt?"
"It can't be," Aang said. "The Fire Nation has been chasing us around the world!"
"Well, yeah, but they haven't been able to burn us yet. You ever notice that when they firebend at us, it just kind of dissolves in our faces?" she observed.
"Or I cut it in half with my staff," Aang added.
Katara inched over to the creek and dipped her hands in the water. "You're going to be a great firebender, Aang. You're the only one who can actually burn people."
"Yeah, me and whoever did that to Prince Zuko's face. Oh shit, suck it Zuzu!" He went in for a hi-five, but then remembered he'd burnt her hands. "Sorry."
"Don't apologize. This… this is a great advantage."