DON'T SET YOUR KIDS ON FIRE. I really can't say that enough.

"Me. You could practice on me. If I'm telling you that you can do it, it can't be wrong to practice - just in case - "

Zuko falls at the North Pole, and when he comes around he's not sure if he's more angry at the Avatar, his uncle, or himself. A story of emotional growth and tea with too much salt in it. AU from "The Siege of the North Part 2."

Many of these pieces lack provenience, as they were recovered after the Great Fire destroyed the Kuei Royal Collection at Ba Sing Se University.

The Avatar Collection is not available to the public. Scholarly inquiries should be directed to the Chief Archivist.

Oh, and he’s been taken captive by Prince Zuko and held prisoner on his battleship. Obviously.

Fortunately, Sokka is a reasonable guy. He doesn’t panic easily—overreact, maybe, possibly, but not panic—and keeps his head in a crisis.

A six-year-old princess of the blood, Azula was quite accustomed to gifts; the fact that these ones talked back was just an added novelty.

As much as she intensely dislikes it, Katara understands why Zuko had to join them. What she doesn't understand is why he and Sokka have to spend every waking moment in each other's company.

Sokka would swear, later on, that it was completely innocent when it started.

"How could he call himself a cabbage merchant if he had no cabbages left to sell?"

The garish red of Fire Nation flags and uniforms, though, is an assault on her senses, an affront to the natural rhythms that she was raised to respect. In the Antarctic, the Fire Nation's colors stood out against the snow like splashes of blood. In the Fire Nation itself, it is overwhelming — the hot oppressive weight of the enemy that took her mother, bearing down on her until she might be crushed beneath it.

She knows that she was not the reason. Not nearly. Her mother has merely ensured that she is one of the benefits.