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Bathed in Moonlight, Cloaked in Darkness

Chapter 11: The Hunted

She’s not sure what she expected. She’s not sure why she ever let herself hope that she could find any sort of normalcy when she is what she is: a monster. Those men turned her into a monster a year ago, and nothing can change that.

But as she makes her way through the crowds of Ba Sing Se, she thinks about Zuko’s expression - the coldness in his gaze as he told her to leave. That they were enemies. It hurts her more than she can admit to herself, more than she ever thought it would. She doesn’t want to think about what else she saw in his gaze. The hurt. The regret.

Bathed in Moonlight, Cloaked in Darkness

Katara's managed to keep her identity - and her true nature - a secret as she's traveled the Earth Kingdom. She doesn't draw attention to herself and arrives in Ba Sing Se under the guise of a refugee. But when one of her nightly adventures takes a deadly turn, she finds herself at the mercy of the mysterious man who rescued her: a man that she can't quite figure out, and one who sets her wolf instincts on edge for a reason she can't understand.

Until she does.

Zuko's lived in Ba Sing Se for most of his life. About 200 years of it, at any rate. He lives a quiet life by day, emerging only when the sky is overcast or beneath a broad-brimmed hat and clothes that cover as much of his skin as possible. At night, he's taken to roaming the streets, taking care of various nefarious characters who seek to cause pain or suffering to innocent victims. When he happens across an injured young woman one night, he saves her life. But his vampire instincts are telling him to run, and he can't figure out why.

Until he does.

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