No one knew and no one would ever remember, but Joo Dee had once been named Mae Ling.
She was actually a refugee from an outer Earth Kingdom village that had been ransacked by the Fire Nation. Food and shelter came quickly for her; more than half of the outer ring of Ba Sing Se had been in her place once, and they reached out to her in her time of need.
Needless to say, Ba Sing Se became a safe haven for her, a heaven on earth.
Learning everything about the city was just a natural progression. Mae Ling had always been a curious young woman. She spent hours upon hours reading endless scrolls about every second of Ba Sing Se history and culture. And though she was a beautiful woman, Mae Ling brushed off any and all suitors. Things like that had never been important to her, never…
After a year of living in the city Mae Ling took it upon herself to start giving tours to the new refugees. Her tours became more and more well known, and soon ever people who had been living in Ba Sing Se all their lives began to attend.
It was on a beautiful day during one of those tours that Mae Ling met Long Feng: "I could use a woman of your talents."
It was on a cold, rainy day in a dark room lit by only one slowly rotating light bulb that Mae Ling became Joo Dee.
prompt was: Earth Kingdom