Zutara Week 2011 4: Secret by vassal-of-bahamut, literature
Literature
Zutara Week 2011 4: Secret
A Bath in Midsummer
The stars glittered in the clear midnight firmament, while Yue's pale, golden glow softened the darkness of the late hour. Summer days in the Fire Nation were sweltering and arid, and the nights only slightly less so. Earlier in the evening, the citizens of Royal Caldera City had sought to cool themselves with their traditional evening market day, and now the whole city was sound asleep, even the guard towers ringing the lip of the crater, within which lay the whole city. Within the Royal Palace, amid a forest of ebony columns, sixteen-year-old Fire Lord Zuko stepped into the pool. The scarred but handsome youth let out a