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[Accidental Voice] .001

[Stirring awake, the first thing she notices is that it's cold -- and it's not cold in the fire nation. Glancing up and around there are snowflakes all around her... and no one in her group.] Aang? Sokka? Toph?

Where are my clothes? [Shuddering, she rubs her arms together.]

[Time to get a little louder now, stomping around, and where is the fire and why is she in a forest?] Toph? Aang? Sokka!? This isn't funny!

Ow! What? What is this? [The sound of turning pages. She'll close it and start looking around in a minute for some shelter and her friends, not necessarily in that order. This Southern Watertribe girl is not about to get frostbite in some strange forest just because she woke up in weird clothes with no shoes.]

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Oh, you were a general? For... an empire?

There are four nations, Water, Earth, Air, Fire. One for each of the four elements. The Southern and Northern Watertribes are both at the poles, so we're used to the snow. Have you ever had sea prunes?

[Yeah, He's not really a part of the Empire anymore.]

Yes. I was the Emperor's General.

There were many nations back home, yet they were named for people. To be named for elements sounds intriguing.

What are sea prunes?

['Was.' That makes her feel better somehow.]

Named for people? That's interesting. It sounds like something Azula would have liked. I guess we were named for the elements because our bending. That, and to remind us that it's only when we have peace that there is balance in the world.

Sea prunes are like... well. They're just like... ...you know, I don't know if I can describe them to you. You'd know them if you had them!

Peace is much preferable to the alternative. Telling one's family that their return was never to happen was something I never desired.

I have not heard of this bending. Is it similar to tempering steel?

We've been at war for a hundred years now... but I believe it can come to an end. And -- according to Sokka and Toph, it has! Which is.. amazing! I wonder what it's like now..

Sort of? If you think about how when steel is very hot you can move it however you want to, if you're strong enough. Benders can do the same thing with the elements.

I am sorry to hear of your lengthy war. I regret that when I arrived, my world was still at war.

[Leo's interest is peaked]

You can move the elements? Do all have this gift of bending?

[He wonders if that would have saved Doma from the poisoned water.]

To think that it's over now... is almost too good to be true.

No, not all of us can do that. I was the last waterbender in my tribe. Each nation has a different ability. Only the Avatar can master all four elements.

I am sorry to hear you are the last in your tribe, yet you say there is one that can master all four?

I have spent my life mastering the sword. Your Avatar must be an old man if he has master four elements.

They were all taken in the war. But... the Northern Water tribe still has plenty of waterbenders! That's where I learned how to really use my bending, from Master Pakku.

[Quick laugh] And, yeah, I guess you could say that he's old. He's 112 years old, really. But he spent 100 of those years trapped in an iceberg.

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A war should not devastate a people like that.

[He remembers back to when Kefka disobeyed his order and poisoned a whole kingdom]

I can but hope to still be agile enough to be called a swordsman at that age.

[His words are making her want to trust him.] Well, we got off easy. Aang's entire nation was wiped out. He's the last of the airbenders.

He's not really... old. While he was trapped in the iceberg, he didn't age. He looks like he's still a young boy.

Miss, I have seen an entire nation but one be wiped out as well. It was a horrendous and dishonorable act. It could have been avoided, if I had not been called away.

You say a boy is over 100 years old?

[Wondering if he is speaking to an old lady, but refusing to even hint at the question out or respect and honor.]

Do all your inhabitants age so gracefully?

Oh. I'm sorry. That must be hard to live with. [Who was this man in his world, that his presence could have stopped such a horrible thing?]

Aang is, yes. But that's just him -- he's the Avatar. He went into some sort of trance that allowed him and Appa to survive in the ice until Sokka and I found him.

I have learned you must live with everything. It is a small consolation that I was not present when the order was made, yet the waste of life remains with me.

Your friend is indeed an interesting one to live with such power? I can but hope his is honorable Miss.

Oh, Aang is. He's the Avatar. He's got a lot of power, but he's going to need it in order help bring the world back into balance.

Can one man truly bring the world back into balance? I may have been General, but I depended on my men to carry out all my orders.

You're right. He's the Avatar, but he doesn't have to do it on his own. That's why he has us.

You all must ease his burdens by being there for him. I enjoyed having my men and friends beside me.

Even so far from home and station, I have the honor and privilege of looking out for them.

Oh really? You have some people here from your world too?

[She's relieved for him. She's started to really like him already but had the feeling that he was lonely. Having friends here makes a big difference.]

It would seem they arrived here before myself. Someday, I hope to return them home, yet I myself will remain to care for some unfinished business.

[The young lady seems nice to him as well. He sees no problems in adding her to the list of individuals he calls friend and will protect from harm.]

[That's odd. Why wouldn't he want to go home?]

Unfinished business? What kind of unfinished business?

[He's not ready to discuss that his last breath at home was dying at the hands of said Kefka]

I apologize if this next statement taints the news of your arrival, but let it be said that Kefka is friend to no one. He is but a maniacal clown intent upon ruling the world.

[A... maniacal clown?]

No, I appreciate the warning. I'll keep that in mind. Is he from your world?

Our world must lay claim to him, yet I will protect the people here as well as ensure that he never returns to terrorize our people again.

Oh. My world isn't exactly full of only good people either. I know what it's like to need to stop them.

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