Chapter 57.1- And so the Dragons Danced
Added 2025-05-07 19:49:36 +0000 UTC“Congratulations, Korra. I’ve always known you could do it,” Her Principal said in her ear, preening to be standing next to her at what had to be one of the biggest parties in the Empire this year. She could see all the who’s who of the Empire walking around. There was Shao Lin, the head of the Dai Li, the Emperor’s Secret Police that were basically an open secret. And he wasn’t the only high ranking person here, there was Lin Beifong, the Emperor’s Granddaughter, and head of the Empire’s Law Enforcement Division. She stood next to her sister, Su Beifong, the Chief Administrator of the Empire’s Affairs. The two of them weren’t next to their mother, but she seemed to tower over them even from the opposite side of the room.
Toph Beifong, the Emperor’s Daughter who looked like she was in his thirties rather than the nineties she should have been. She was an Immortal, just like the Emperor himself. Speaking of the Emperor, the man stood at the centre of the party. Her first thought on seeing him up close was that he was handsome. Black hair worn in a ponytail, golden brown skin that said he got more sun than most firebenders she’d seen, and then the Black eyes. They seemed to have a flame perpetually smoldering within them. He had two of his children around him. There was Shifu, his son by his first wife, Fire Lady Zhufu, and then there was Shinra, his other son, by his second wife, Fire Lady Maki. Shinra had the marking on his forehead that showed mastery of combustion bending, but beyond that neither the Emperor nor his Children were marked in any way.
Of course, she couldn’t look at them without thinking about how strange it was that they both looked older than their father, who looked to be in his twenties. The Emperor was immortal, and all-powerful. There was a reason he was known as the God-King, after all. And then she realised he was moving. In her direction? What?
