Disclaimer: I don't own Avatar, but I wish I did.

The war is over: long gone and long past. Twenty years in fact. And so muchg has changed, but so much has kept the same.

Zuko stayed true to what he said in the North Pole. He never allowed anyone to bow to him again. But he took the throne anyway. He thinks he has solved the problem by not allowing bowing. He doesn’t realise that this is just another form of control. His people will, if he tells them to jump, do so and then ask if it was high enough.

Sokka settled down with on Kyoshi- for a few months at least- but then he found it didn’t suit him. He travelled for a bit- stayed at the North Pole for a while, but in the end he went back to the South. He’s a simple man, my brother, and the place he was born will always be home to him. I think he’d hit me if I told him this, but he’s becoming more and more like Pakku, with every passing year. Instead of teaching bending, he teaches survival and weapons to the youngsters. I sat in on a lesson once- he’s rather good at what he does.

Toph…is dead. I think. Or she might be wandering the countryside. Every time I lose hope, I’ll hear some fantastical new story about a short female earthbender beating the snot out of someone supposedly better trained and older than her. But I don’t know. I think that the last battle- not the north pole, but the one in the middle of the ocean, where she ripped up nearly the entire fire nation navy and killed Azula with a rivet. In one eye and out the back of her head. Very messy. I think that shook her, right down to the core. She was taking bigger and bigger risks, until one day she just up and left.

And then there’s me. Where do I start? The fact that I don’t appear to be aging? Or maybe the fact that I'm training the new Avatar- a lovely little girl called Izumi. Perhaps you’d like to hear about the dreams I have? But to understand my story you have to go back to the start and hear of a boy frozen in an iceberg after a hundred years of war.

But that tale is long, and I am tired.

It's been fun :D

Sacharissa

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Talbeth (my incredibly-more-hyper-than-me muse)