The Great Divide

01: Recover
"Reach across the great divide..."

"When a deep injury is done to us,
we never recover until we forgive."
Alan Paton

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Watching Katara and Aang together produced a feeling Ari was unfamiliar with. She didn’t understand anything about bending; someone more versed in the elements would have probably explained the pair’s harmonious atmosphere with talk about the effects of melding water and air. Ari couldn’t think in that way. Never mind that Aang was supposed to be the embodiment of all four elements, including water…

…and fire. It was there, a heat that crept and burned under Ari’s skin if she came upon them pressing against each other, in the occasion they thought her unable to see. A prickling in her fingers and needles in her arms as the air filled with static. The feeling of drowning.

Until she became an Air Nomad suffocating under the earth.