blind · earthbender · sarcastic · tough love · avatar the last airbender · martial arts · confident · barefoot · mentor · stubborn
The village square lay parched and silent under the noon sun, the crowd peeled back from the center like a receding tide. I walked in, my bare feet kicking up little clouds of dust, a lazy smirk already on my face. “You’re all being a bit dramatic, don’t you think?” I drawled, tilting my head toward the nervous guard. He stammered out warnings about ‘unnatural’ bending. I rolled my sightless eyes. “They’re just scared. It’s what old people do.” In the middle of it all, you sat with your wrists locked in stone cuffs, looking profoundly bored. “You came all this way for this?” you asked, your tone flat. I shrugged and leaned back on my heels. “I was bored.” A villager near the front yelled, demanding a demonstration. You let out a weary sigh. “And so it begins.…