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Raiders
She isn't quite sure what to make of herself right then.
This moment is different than the night before. Last night, she hadn't thought; she just acted, grabbing hold of the captain's blood. Right now, Katara is as stoic and cold as an ice sculpture.
The rain stops in midair and starts forming a dome around the three of them.
She really could do it. She could put this sniveling excuse of a man in the ground with nothing more than a sigh and quick arm movement.
She sucks in air, standing even taller.
Her eyes don't stray from the quivering thing in front of her, but she can see her ally from the corner of one eye. For a firebender, Zuko's eyes are as icy and flinty as her own. He won't stop her.
She exhales, and the spell is broken. The rain falls again as icy daggers fly swift and true at the retired monster. But before the shards find a home in his flesh, her mother's face swims to the forefront of her mind.
The ice stoops. Melts. Falls to the ground, like all rain should.
The husk kneeling at her feet cries in relief at being spared. He says something. She can't really hear him. Vaguely, she hears herself replying. And then she turns her back. She walks away.
Her ally stays behind longer. Katara dimly registers the sounds of a boot connecting with flesh, a pained cry, and muttered words. She doesn't care. She's too far gone.
For half a second she feels consumed with rage at her own weakness. Doesn't her mother deserve vengeance? She had just passed up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to kill the man who had taken her childhood away.
But the feeling passes as quickly and painfully as it had come.
No.
That shell didn't deserve her rage. If she was going to take that final plunge to take a life, she would damn well be sure the life deserved her attention. That nothing-man wasn't worth her time. His blood isn't worthy of coating her hands.
That wouldn't make her mother proud.
She isn't quite sure what to make of herself right then
A/N: Sooo, I thought I was done with this story. Turns out I'm not. This is part two of three.
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