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[ The Red Lion is immense where it sits, looming over the palace of the Earth King in Ba Sing Se. It's the most advance piece of machinery the world has ever seen, and the bright red paint on its body marks it as a weapon, aggressively Fire Nation in its aesthetic even though it literally fell out of the sky from another world. Most people won't come near it, avoiding even the shadow of the massive robot.
Katara sits perched on one large claw, her friends gathered around her as they chatter animatedly, combined nerves and excitement and sadness in the air between them. She's leaving--she announced as much several days before, but the reality of her departure and what that means for her and their friends is only really just now sinking in. Sokka is conspicuously absent, but she'd seen him and her father pull their new friend and ally aside an hour ago to give him what she could only imagine to be a very stern talking-to. A young man taking off alone with a girl not yet of marrying age is highly suspect, but Keith had proven to be a skilled fighter and stalwart friend in the fight against Fire Lord Ozai.
More than that, the decision wasn't his, but Katara's. Discovering that there were worlds beyond anything she's ever experienced or imagined left her with the powerful urge to go and see them--to travel beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond the confines of her world and its expectations and limitations is too great a temptation to easily ignore.
Eventually, she spots him in his red and white armor, slinking into the courtyard with her father and brother in tow. Sliding down the slope of Red's claw, she and the others run to meet them, though Aang in particular trails dispiritedly behind. ]
Keith! Are you ready to go?
Katara sits perched on one large claw, her friends gathered around her as they chatter animatedly, combined nerves and excitement and sadness in the air between them. She's leaving--she announced as much several days before, but the reality of her departure and what that means for her and their friends is only really just now sinking in. Sokka is conspicuously absent, but she'd seen him and her father pull their new friend and ally aside an hour ago to give him what she could only imagine to be a very stern talking-to. A young man taking off alone with a girl not yet of marrying age is highly suspect, but Keith had proven to be a skilled fighter and stalwart friend in the fight against Fire Lord Ozai.
More than that, the decision wasn't his, but Katara's. Discovering that there were worlds beyond anything she's ever experienced or imagined left her with the powerful urge to go and see them--to travel beyond the moon, beyond the stars, beyond the confines of her world and its expectations and limitations is too great a temptation to easily ignore.
Eventually, she spots him in his red and white armor, slinking into the courtyard with her father and brother in tow. Sliding down the slope of Red's claw, she and the others run to meet them, though Aang in particular trails dispiritedly behind. ]
Keith! Are you ready to go?
