Chapter 52.2- And so the Dragons Danced
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Riding in a blimp was nothing like what it would have been in the world I came from. Yes, I was excited to see the vehicles, the cosmetic backgrounds for my favourite fight scene in the whole show. But riding in them quickly became a whole different experience. We hadn’t figured out air conditioning in this world and while that was quickly running up my list of proioirites for our clearly ingenious research and development unit, it wouldn’t happen in time to save me from this hot mess.
The blimps were tight, hot behemoths. Keeping them in the air required that they not let a lot of air in so apart from the bare minimum necessary to precent all of us from passing out from oxygen deprivation, there was little in the way of airflow. That did give me the time and space to work on another skill of mine though. Cold isn’t real. It’s just the absence of heat, I remembered from my physics lessons. At least I thought I did. I’d never paid much attention in classes. I was destined to be good at one thing, so why should I have cared about anything else.
I tried to force my heat to go deeper, to push the heat out of the room itself so it would become a pleasant cold as I meditated. When Maki eventually came to rouse me because it was time for the first resupplying, I wasn’t sure I’d achieved anything but at least I’d been able to get my mind doing something other than bemoaning the situation.
I watched everything with sharp eyes as some soldiers on a hot air balloon rose from the ships with supplies. Looking at the ships made me return my mind to what exactly we were planning on achieving here. The North Pole was one hell of a target. The only nation to remain outside Fire Nation dominance. It would fall tomorrow, I had decried it and so it would be. I wasn’t like Ozai. I wasn’t a failure.
