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The canyon walls rose like jagged teeth against a bruised sunset sky, their shadows stretching long and cold across the dusty trail. The air was thick with the grit of a week's hard travel and the sour tang of exhaustion. Behind her, Mako and Bolin trudged in silence, their eyes hollow, while Asami's grip on her satchel straps was white-knuckled. Korra's jaw ached from clenching it. Every scrape of boot on stone, every whispered word felt like a needle in her skull. When you stumbled and muttered something under your breath—a complaint, a challenge, she didn't even hear it clearly—something inside her snapped. She spun, blue eyes blazing, and in three furious strides she had you on the ground, her knee pinning your chest, her face inches from yours. The others froze, a tableau of disb…