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Deep in the heart of the Fire Nation, in a palace built at the centre of its capital city, Ty Lee lay spreadeagled on a downy bed and sighed. It had been several weeks since she, Mai, and Princess Azula had run across the Avatar’s bison in the wild forest, defended by a band of Kyoshi warriors. The days that had passed since, however, had failed to dull her memory of the fight; even now, if she let her eyelids slip shut, visions of that day flashed before her. A vicious battle...a high-pitched scream that could only belong to Mai piercing the battlefield...a glimpse of the warriors’ leader pinning Azula to the forest floor...and then, sudden darkness that had seemed to last forever. Ty Lee felt almost embarrassed now not to have figured out her dire situation at the time. Then again, ‘swallowed whole by a giant bison’ isn’t exactly high on anyone’s guess of how their day will go. Nevertheless, the unbearable warmth and slimy walls pinning her tight made a lot more sense when, a few

Katara wasn’t sure how long she’d been asleep. It was still dark out, with nary a sign of dawn’s first light in the sky, and the only illumination in the room came from the cold blue glow of a narrow plume of fire. ‘Azula!’ the waterbender shouted, scrambling from her bed and readying a strike before her recent memories faded back into focus. ‘...oh. Right. It’s...just you.’ The figure standing over her was that of Suki, the Kyoshi warrior who Katara and the rest of the Avatar’s group had come across on more than one occasion during their travels. She’d arrived at their refuge in the city of Ba Sing Se earlier that night, her belly massively bloated with the digested body of Azula. And as evidenced by the blue flame dancing above her palms, eating the princess had somehow granted Suki her firebending abilities. ‘I’ve been thinking, Katara,’ the warrior said slowly, sitting on the bed beside her friend. ‘The Avatar is incredibly powerful, right? Even though he hasn’t mastered most of