47. Creation
Their home had been
their creation. Its destruction was also of their making.
94. Last Hope
When they had destroyed
the town, it left them crushed and defeated by their own hands, but
she had been the first one to do something about it.
"Ba
Sing Sei's our last hope." She said with a shrug "Going somewhere is better than doing nothing at all."
6. Break Away
When she first became a
Freedom Fighter, she had needed to break away from herself in order
to heal. Now she had needed to break away from Smellerbee in order to
find the lost little girl who was finally ready to face the world on
her own again.
49. Stripes
Her stripes were who
she chose to be, her scars were who she was forced to be, and her
smile was who she was born to be.
24. No Time
They had never had time
to themselves, and so they grouped up as an intertwined spirit, all
of the Freedom Fighters, one and the same. Maybe that was why they
felt so empty away from their treetop paradise.
100. Relaxation
He leaned back against
the trunk of the old tree, wrapping an arm tightly around her. It was
one of the few chances they'd had to truly relax on the journey to
Ba Sing Sei. Jet had gone off with one of the local girls to do
something less than virtuous, but he was just happy to enjoy the time
with her. She leaned against him slightly, and he couldn't help but
smile, even if she was asleep.
44. Two Roads
There were two roads
that led into Ba Sing Se, and it took all of her willpower not to
suggest the more dangerous one, just for the hell of it.
87. Food
Food had almost never
been plentiful in their life, but when it was, they appreciated it
all the more, especially if they could eat it together.
78. Drink
She had never cared
much for drinking. Alcohol made people act in strange ways, and she
had a strange fear of losing control of herself. Perhaps, it was more
that she was afraid of what she would say to him that made her
refrain from the wine that night.
45. Illusion
She liked to pretend
that she was an illusionist, and that it was by her own choice that
everywhere she went no one ever realized she was a girl. Sometimes
she even managed to convince herself.
20. Fortitude
The fortitude of Ba
Sing Sei should have made her feel safe; instead it reminded her of a
cage: a big, stinking, overcrowded cage.
50. Breaking the Rules
She never saw the point
to learning the rules for a new game, and if she ever bothered to, it
was only so that she could figure the best way to cheat. Here though,
she wanted to do things right.
37. Eyes
Their eyes always said
more than their words did. Entire speeches could be made with a
simple glance.
34. Stars
The stars had always
been her friends, a single comfort during the few nights when it
hadn't been raining on her watch. Now, in the gloom and pollution
of Ba Sing Sei, the stars had abandoned her, and though she would not
admit it, she wept for them.
40. Rated
The boys in Ba Sing Sei
seemed to have a rating scale for all the girls they saw, but she
wasn't rated. They weren't even sure if she was a girl.
52. Deep in Thought
She was generally
overly aware of her surroundings, but every now and then, he could
sneak up on her, especially when she spaced out. Usually to thinkabout him.
80. Words
As talkative as she
was, she almost always preferred silence. Silence didn't tell lies,
the way words did, but sometimes she would long to hear his words,
just to know how he would say the millions of things that his
eyes told her.
98. Puzzle
People always seemed to
think that it was hard to puzzle out what he was saying, but for her,
the pieces just simply fell into place.
31. Flowers
She had never liked
flowers so much as that night, when she had discovered a single lily
on her pillow, an arrowhead tied on a ribbon of red cloth beside it.
53. Keeping a Secret
She fingered the tiny
arrowhead that she kept on a scrap of cloth, dangling next to her
heart; she smiled knowing that she was the only one who knew exactly
why she kept it there.
18. Rainbow
It was the first time
in a long while that he had seen that carefree smile; to think, all
it had taken was a simple rainbow, spread across the western sky
after an afternoon rainstorm.
56. Danger Ahead
She had a sick feeling,
as Jet was dragged away from the tea shop, that there was danger
ahead.
66. Traps
She was paranoid, she
knew, but seeing traps everywhere wasn't necessarily a bad
thing. It had saved their hides on more than one occasion.
28. Sorrow
It was nothing new,
this pain in her chest, the feeling of utter loss that consumed her
with the death of her leader. Its intensity, however, was.
85. Spiral
She could feel her life
spiraling out of control, their leader was dying, and the Freedom
Fighters were already disbanded. She felt everything collapse around
her, and quite suddenly, his lips were on hers, and she felt herself
steady, even just a little.
39. Dreams
She wasn't sure,
whether it was real or a dream (which made much more sense, after
all, Jet would have to be dead for this to be happening), but
whatever it was, she didn't want his kiss to end.
58. Kick in the Head
It was kind of like a
kick in the head, except good.
35. Hold My Hand
She had taken his hand
then, trying to comfort him as he always seemed to comfort her.
67. Playing the Melody
She had always been the
harmony, the music quietly playing in the background, not the focus
of attention, but not something that could easily be disregarded.
With Jet's death, she suddenly found herself playing the melody,
but with all the wrong notes.
33. Expectations
Ba Sing Sei, the last
of the great Earth Nation strongholds, and the one place in this
world that they would be able to have a second chance. Nothing ever
seems to live up to the expectations.
62. Magic
She had never liked the
idea of magic, and even bending felt like cheating in a battle.
Though there was one kind of magic she didn't mind so much…
2. Love
She had never expected
to find love, not after all of the things her parents had said about
her. But then again, she also never expected to be a Freedom Fighter,
or to hate a man from the Earth Kingdom more than she could ever hate
a Fire Nation soldier.