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    Five years after the war, Fire Lord Zuko accidentally agrees to be temporarily cursed in an attempt to help the near extinct dragons. He needs a healer to help get him through one summer of regular transformations. Katara, of course, is the best one for the job.

    Even if she exacerbates certain side effects; even if the side effects may require a new arrangement.

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    21 Feb 2021

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    Long-term side effects of a lightning strike, Katara read, one night by flickering candlelight beside Zuko’s bed, her eyes itching with exhaustion: persistent neurological weaknesses, particularly nerve and muscle damage; severe headaches, trouble concentrating, and memory loss.

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    21 Feb 2021

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    It was just as well, then; the South Pole was a lonely place, and his quest fell on him and him alone. It seemed only right that the last part of his journey would be the hardest, but he was so close. Just a few more miles, just a few more nights, just a single horrifying task to accomplish, and then he could finally go home again.
    Bring me the heart of the last waterbender. The tallest order imaginable, and yet he would do it. He would do anything, if it meant restoring his honour and setting things back to the way they used to be.
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    When a mission to the South Pole goes awry, Prince Zuko awakens in the home of a healer named Katara and finds his heart is damaged and his bending has vanished. His quest to find the last waterbender of the Southern Water Tribe is his destiny-- the one chance to regain his honour and return home. But as time passes and Zuko's heart heals, it becomes clear that Katara is protecting an ancient secret of her own, and that both of their destinies are entwined in ways never before thought possible.

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    09 Jan 2021

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    This will sound a little ridiculous, no matter how Sasuke phrases it. I see dead people is embarrassingly tacky, and I'm half-spirit seems like something Sakura might say when she's stoned sky high. So he settles for a shrug.

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    29 Jul 2020

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    “I don’t dream,” Killua says the first time he falls into Gon's dreams.

    Gon peers at him through the spell in his hands, solid and warm with the weight of an ocean that only exists in his memories. Doing magic, making potions, crafting runes—you need to dream to do that, to find the memories that bind everything together in a tapestry. Even worldbinding, for all that it draws its powers from physical reality, still needs dreams to make it breathe, to give it life. Maybe it’s a balance, like how worldbinders use their runes to connect the physical world to new magic. To dream, in a way, is to live magic.

    But here Killua is, in Gon’s dreams, doing magic seemingly without dreams of his own. If Killua has dreams—if he lies, or if he forgets, then he has a reason. But if Gon asks now, he's not going to tell the truth. Whatever it is, he'll tell Gon eventually.

    So Gon asks, “Don’t you get bored if you don’t dream?”

    Killua grins, blue eyes sharp with surprise and delight. “I’m not bored now.”

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    10 Jan 2020