lady-dragon

The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads." -Stephen Crane, "The Wayfarer" The Truth in Lies Despite what the majority of the world would like to believe, the citizens of the Fire Nation didn't all wake up one day and decide to take over the world. The reality was that the vast majority of citizens never even understood the true extent of the war as it made no real impact on their daily liv

Lessons Learned Sitting on a tatami mat across from his eldest child in the royal dojo, Firelord Zuko came to the startling realization that he'd rather be facing off against his sister in an epic Agni Kai once again then be stuck sitting here watching this...heartbreaking performance. Xiang had been demonstrating her firebending katas before him for the past two hours, and even though her form was everything an instructor could hope to see in a young pupil's performance, it was all for naught. Ten year old Xiang did not once bend a flame. An entire afternoon that should have been spent seeing to the delegates from the Earth Kingdom or hamm

The Danger of Tradition It was a tradition he could not and absolutely should not ignore, the sages told him. The well-being of his wife and child depended on this ancient custom one sage had gravely intoned. They thought he was gambling with the lives of loved ones by putting off an ancient ritual he did not believe in. They couldn't have been further from the truth. His wife was already six weeks into her pregnancy and it had become public knowledge nearly a week ago. According to tradition he should have conducted the Invocation of the Ancestors ceremony and paid tribute to the patron spirit of child-bearing before announcing the pregnan