ATLA: Memento Mori 3Mari was in big trouble.ATLA: Memento Mori 3
She knew it as soon as she had heard the first loathsome crack of splintered wood crashing against lacquered practice armor, and watched in alarm as a gruesome fissure had grown in one of the primary plates of her small wooden fan. She regretted instantly having let her friends convince her to practice the advanced paired forms that one of them had learned earlier that day. Worst of all, she knew that this wouldn't have happened if only she had listened to Miss Suki and polished the bamboo slats everyday with clove oil. Now, one of her training fans had been broken, and she didn't know how to fix it. &nbs
ATLA: Memento Mori 2Notes: Thanks to Shibaken for beta-reading this at 1AM. This chapter was inspired extensively by “Long is the Way” by masamunable, which although unfinished, is what got me into this fandom to begin with.ATLA: Memento Mori 2
It was soon after nightfall when Zuko was able to return to his study, worn and exhausted from a long day of negotiating and drafting monotonous legislation that had absolutely nothing to do with his planned projects for the rebuilding of public facilities damaged in the war. His meeting with foreign diplomats had continued to frustrate him, with trade and aid agreements stymied by the considerable wall of
ATLA: Memento Mori, Chapter 1The wedding was held on a Tuesday. She only knew because Mondays brought spice bread with her dinners and today a presumptuous jug of rice wine, and the windows were much too small to betray anything beyond the speck of sky and the growing acridity of the prison air that denoted the coming autumn.ATLA: Memento Mori, Chapter 1
She hated the autumn, she hated the cold and wet. She longed for the long summer days that stretched the sun forever across the skies. The heavy incense they burned in the sconces of the walls kept her docile and slow, but she remained alert enough to remember the things close to her. In the beginning, she was surprised that
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