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  1. Public Bookmark 17

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    Kataang, oneshot. She ran her fingers through his hair. She kissed his cheek. She thought Toph was asleep, but it became clear that she wasn't sleeping at all when she spoke: It kills him when you do that, you know.

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    30 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 56

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    "I suppose I can't blame you," Mai says quietly.

    Her bangs hide her eyes from his view. Her face is an impassive mask. Hurt reverberates through Zuko's chest. This isn't—no—

    It's funny how you notice the absence of something. How you notice something only when it is gone from you.

    How you notice the lack of air when you can't breathe anymore—

    “For what?” he asks regardless. Her drawing up her walls and keeping him out hurts—but he doesn't even know where—and how—to begin addressing that. And as much as he knows her, which, these past days have revealed was not a lot—he thinks she's the same way. Conversations were always difficult for them.

    But this is important.

    So he sticks to what she's already stumbled her way into saying.

    “I'd have come with you,” she says. “If you had asked. But I didn't think Ty Lee would come through for me either. So I can't really blame you for thinking the same of me.”

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    Zuko attempts to break Mai out of Boiling Rock.

    [earlier titled Will of Steel]

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    29 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    You are the protection of the Water Tribes riding with him, Master Pakku had told her. His guardian, his knight in shining armor. His guiding light.

    Katara takes her new role as Aang's Sifu very seriously. Through chi-blocking and kidnappings and heartbreak, waterbending practice becomes an anchor on their long journey across the Earth Kingdom.

    (Book 2 Kataang, from Katara's POV. Introspection, angst, trauma)

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    29 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 12

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    From just beyond the horizon, Katara can see the comet starting to fade out of the sky. Let it set, she prays. Let it set. Let this day be over. The comet trails out of sight, leaving behind the forgiving half-lit darkness of a summer evening. The moon rises in the distance.

    "Is—is that it? Is it over?" Zuko says, his voice a faint rasp. "Did Aang—?"

    Katara doesn't know. She's never had anything but her hope and faith and her own pure will. Those have already moved mountains and calmed tides and brought back the dead.

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    As the Avatar battles the Fire Lord, Katara and Zuko await the outcome. The end of a hundred years of war.

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    29 May 2026

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    Mai supposes it isn’t quite fair to heap all of the blame on Ty Lee. After all, Ty Lee likely had no idea what her actions had led to. Mai couldn’t entirely fault her for running off to the circus. What Mai could fault Ty Lee for was leaving without telling her. Mai would have understood. More than understood, Mai would have gone with her. Instead, Mai is trapped as an army of servants prepare her for her moment of reckoning.

    Today is her wedding day.

     

    An alternate-universe Maiko adventure.

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    25 May 2026