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There was lapping of waves in the distance when Selzan first awoke, but it wasn’t the sounds of the surf that woke her. Through the thin line of shrubbery that separated her from the shoreline, the weary sandbender could see that the young firebender appeared to have finished the swim with some ener...

The image of the island in the distance still glowed in the light of Selzan’s inner eye, and she focused on it with all of her might until she thought it might burn out from her eyes and seer itself onto the insides of her eyelids. She had to remain focused or she was dead. Whether or not she was dr...

Perrin was first. At one time, Selzan had thought of Shao-Mi as a fairly entertaining person. When he'd been first mate of the ship, he'd done a good job of keeping men in order with his no-nonsense work pace that somehow coupled harmoniously with his nonsensical humor. To see that pleasant demeanor...

Selzan’s jaw finally relaxed as she heard Perrin’s voice cut through the slowly waning din of the deckhands. He was such a good soul – wasted on the likes of this crew, she thought, now that she had seen their lack of spine. They were a bunch of sniveling cowards, or worse, and if they thought they ...

Suddenly, Selzan felt oddly endeared to the two young men fighting to take the blame away from her and keep it for themselves, even against each other... was that how idiotic she'd sounded all this time? It had always been the safest plan for Selzan to take the blame when something went wrong. It ha...

Everything was dim, and hazy, when moments of vision swam through Selzan's disoriented eyes. The sounds of pelican-gulls in the distance echoed in and out of the sailor's ears as she slowly faded back to consciousness. Her eyes finally found the resolve to stay open when a few drops of cold water da...

Things went well for Selzan in the first five to ten seconds of the fight. Once she was in the middle of everyone, they had a hard time swinging at her hard enough to do any damage without risking a blow to someone else. She, on the other hand, had none of the concerns that came with the luxuryof su...

Someone on the other side of the door was trying to kick it in. At first they'd only been pushing on it, and Selzan had been able to resist that with her strong legs and ample surface to wedge herself against the door while she kept the lever from turning. But now someone was actively trying to cave...

A self-conscious smirk split Selzan's face as she glanced down and saw the little ring of keys on Lu Yun's belt - whatever. She grabbed them anyway, just in case they needed to uncuff the kid in a hurry. Slinking back out into the hall, the desert woman listened for a moment to make sure there was n...

The grin was only just fading from Selzan’s face when she stepped into the cell behind Perrin, rolling her shoulder – it had been a while since she’d thrown anything that hard, but the bits of juicy melon plastered all over both sides of the hall were almost as satisfying as the dumb look on Lu Yun’...

The rolling sand dune waves held Selzan's attention less and less as the young man beside her slowly spoke his conviction into being. And of all the thoughts that whipped up into a dust devil inside of her and he talked, only one remained still and steady. Why did someone else have to tell me this? ...

"Me neither... it wasn't always this way." Selzan handed her hungry raptor another bit of food, and then tossed him off to go find his customary nesting place. "It's a bitter thing to say, since you're still so new to the crew. I'm not sure if I can stay on this ship much longer as it is. It's not ...

The wind shifted slightly as a pocket of colder air circled across the deck. The ship was slowly making it’s way back into colder waters as it sailed south and easy around the major landmass of the Earth Kingdom. They’d be completely out of the tropics in a couple more days. Selzan watched Ji’da tak...

Living on a ship was not the life Selzan had dreamed of when she'd taken to the sea. She'd been told that she would see incredible far-off shores, put her feet on sands that no other Si-Wong had ever imagined, and know the taste of fruits and flowers fit for gods - she'd been told that her skills wo...