"Zuko, I don't want to tell you how to do your job," Sokka says with all the intention of telling Zuko how to do his job, "but why are we heading towards the Earth Kingdom? There's no way Aang's there."
"Just trust me," Zuko murmured.
I give his hand, the one not holding Appa's reigns, a quick squeeze. He gives me a nod and snaps the reigns again. "Yip-yip."
We soon arrive at a noisy bar, not unlike the ones some of my sluttier friends back home have crashed with their fake ids. Music is playing loudly, people chatter drunkenly and there are some pretty weird modes of transportation hitched to the post outside, including what I think is an overgrown mole.
"And the reason you've brought us to a sketchy Earth Kingdom tavern is what now?" I demand clutching his hand.
"June," he points to a beautiful young woman sitting alone, calmly sipping her drink, daring anyone to come closer. She seemed wild and dangerous, but held her own against the more muscled men in the tavern. Before her eyes, she flips a man over who tries to approach her all while calmly sipping her drink.
"Oh, yeah!" Sokka remembers. "That weird bounty hunter with the giant mole."
"You went out with a bounty hunter?" I hiss under my breath as we approach her.
"Mole?" Suki scans June's face as she takes on the man's friends single handedly. "Her skin is flawless."
"No, she has this giant mole creature she rides around on."
"A shirshu," Zuko corrects. "It's the only thing that can track Aang's scent anywhere in the world. It's the one shot we have of finding him."
June finishes off the men avenging their fallen friend and neatly catches her (miraculously still filled) drink.
Toph crosses her arms and smiles. "I don't know who this June lady is, but I like her."
I resist the urge to kick my friend.