alchemyisascience

Long ago, The King of the Earth and Old Widow Desert lived together in peace, both respecting the authority of the other. The King of the Earth relied on Old Widow Desert to keep his land dry of excess rain during the time of the floods and in return Old Widow Desert received enough food to feed her family. Everyone lived a blissful life in the balance of the two powers. One day, however, Old Widow Desert's six sons decided that they wanted to gain more power for their mother and tried to overthrow The King of the Earth. In retaliation The King of the Earth banished Old Widow Desert to the farthest South and put a curse on her so that for ev

There were things done in the past that sometimes she wished she could take back, or do over again. These happened to everyone, or so Katara imagined whenever some of these thoughts made themselves known, clawing at the back of her mind like an irritable housecat at the drapes. This would become one of those; she could feel it as her shoulders pulled with the new stiffness of tension. I should have at least gone, she thought, worrying her bottom lip with her teeth as a dribble of water wound its way through her fingers. No, she reminded herself, shaking her head. She had lessons to teach and children to help, and besides, Zuko would understa