We're not in Republic City anymore.

[avatar_state]

She sat, cross-legged, meditating. One day, she'd find a way to reconnect with her past selves. All the previous avatars, stretching back through time. But the meditation itself never hurt. To think just a few years before how bad she'd been at it. So hotheaded, so rash. She'd been tempered. By hard experience, but also by wonderful people.

So she smiled when she felt the breeze stir her hair. It was a reminder, to her, of so much. But then she heard the creaking of a door.

Her eyes opened, and she stood. There weren't any doors here, not out in the wilds beyond Republic City. But there was one, in the face of a boulder near to her, grass swirling in front of it like it had always been there, just a part of the scenery. She stepped forward.

She didn't remember taking hold of the handle. All she remembered was the flash, and then there was...another city. One she didn't recognize, with strange smells, and strange sounds. She turned in a small circle, eyes wide and mouth open.

"How does my life keep on getting stranger?"

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[avatar_state]

"Oh, no, bending," she replies, settling in, careful so as not to make him uncomfortable. "People where I'm from have mastered the arts of being able to alter the elements. Earth, fire, water, air. usually it's just one each. But the Avatar - that's me - can manipulate all of them."

[dragonsflew]

"Bending! So, that's what you meant when you called yourself the Avatar. I see. I know of wizards in my world who have control over the elements." Gorbash crouches, ready to take to the sky. "Are you ready when I take off, Avatar Korra? I don't want to surprise you."

[avatar_state]

"Thanks for asking, but I am ready, and I am eager!"

And oh, was she.

[dragonsflew]

Gorbash crouches, then beats his wings and throws himself into the air.

He missed this a lot, he thinks.

[avatar_state]

"Wahoo!"

She can't help but cry out with a grin as they get airborne. What girl hasn't dreamed of riding on a dragon?

Certainly not this Avatar.