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Overview[]
Introduction of the main antagonist, and his story. One of the first few chapters dedicated to him. He tries to find a way to escape Ba Sing Se.
Chapter 9: The Escape Part 1: New Identity[]
Book 1: Air
Chapter 9: The Escape Part 1: New Identity
The latched metal door, leading to the hallway of cells where Senlin is held.
A dark hallway lit by dim green lights on the walls of what looks to be a prison, the prison itself is made of metal, everything from the walls, the cells, the doors, and the floor to prevent an earthbender from escaping the facility. A jailor in dark green garments is walking with an energetic bounce to his step. Whistling a tune he had heard in a tavern or from a traveling bard. Two soldiers were behind the jailor each grabbing a man by his arm and escorting him to his jail cell. The jailor unlocked the cell door with a key and slid the door wide open, the guards threw the man inside and slammed shut the cell door locking it behind them. The prison ran up to the door and slammed into it, grabbing the small bars on the open slot that is used to give prisoners food and water.
Few minutes later, another man walks in this one looks to be an employee he was pushing a small cart with plates of food and a large jar full of ice-cold water. He grabbed a plate and poured a cup of water for each cell and slid it into the slot for the prisoner to grab their meals for consumption. When he got to one of the cells he threw the plate inside and pushed the cup in as well. The cup fell off the small slot and spilled water all over the ground. The plate hit the ground with a clank as the food scattered all over the floor.
In a dark corner sat a muscular man, tan skin, green eyes, old yet surprisingly still able to move like he did when he was younger. He wore tattered green clothing that was dirty with stains and torn in some spots. His hair had finally grayed out, and he grew a large and long beard and his wrinkles were all signs of how many years he spent in that dirty rotten prison cell. He jumped at the scattered food on the floor or else the elephant rats would get to it. The only thing keeping him from actually reaching the food was the chain tied around his ankle, he landed on the metal floor with a huge thud.
The water was running down towards his direction and he couldn't help but stick his tongue out and try to lick the floor where it was wet so that he could at least taste of a few drops of water. An elephant rat scurried into his cell and grabbed a drumstick of rooster pork and scurried away again when the man screamed his lungs out and slammed the floor with his fists. The man who brought lunch was laughing at his torturous screams, he banged on the cell door.
In a dark corner sits a muscular man in torn green jail clothing, his right foot being held by metal chain.
"Quiet down in there! No shouting, no screaming, and no loud noises! I don't want to have to call the jailor in here." the man shouted at the prisoner who he treated with such hatred.
The prisoner in the cell did his best attempt to grab whatever food that the elephant rats didn't already touch with their dirty grubby hands. He huddled to the small dark corner of his cell and squatted down chowing down on his meal. The lunch man looked at him with disgust, "You're an animal, Senlin." he said.
He continued to eat the remainder of his meal, the man walked away muttering something along the lines, "Avatar Ku Tei, should've killed you when he had the chance...you're a traitor...". The hatch door behind the man was sealed shut, the wheel on the inside was turned counterclockwise to lock the hatch door. On the outside leading out of the hall that Senlin was in the lunch man secured the metal door bar for extra security. Not a soul has escaped this prison in over a thousand years and lived to tell about it. Because even if they did the guards killed them quick before ever leaving the prison. And if by some luck they got passed the guards the prison was near the military quarter of Ba Sing Se where apprentice soldiers trained for war.
Senlin's day was spent sleeping or sitting in his favorite corner as he heard the outside world evolving and developing while he rotten inside. The fresh meat that signed up to join the eastern province military-trained outside every early morning they were his alarm. Dawn, he would wake up and do exercises that weren't much trouble to him if the chain around his ankle allowed him to do the exercises.
Mostly could hear the shouts from the instructors to the apprentice soldiers he would often reminisce the days where he was a young boy joining the eastern Earth Kingdom army. Hours had passed by, and he wondered each hour of each day why he was still alive. There was not a single thing he could do to bend anything within, he even tried starving himself. When the jailors caught on to his plan of forcing himself to starve he was chained up and force-fed food. The thing about the prison here is they don't permit their prisoners to kill themselves, by force they must live out their sentences without using suicide as a form of escape.
Suddenly, he felt like the spirits have blessed him because when he least expected it a chunk of earth flew in, striking against the chain that held Senlin by the ankle. He lifted his head from in between his knees, in the direct sunlight coming in front of the window he saw a pretty good size chunk of earth sitting on the cell floor. He felt like he wasn't getting enough sleep that he began to see things that weren't there or maybe his mind was finally succumbing to his old age and dreamt of it in his cell. He ignored the chunk of earth, thinking that at any second it would disappear. This rock was the size of an adult's head, one of the apprentices must've of shot it in this direction and by slim chance, it fell into his cell.
Day grew into night, the sky was dark and the moon was out. The rock still stood in the spot it landed in, he reached out with his hand and closed his hand into a fist. The rock began to crack and crumbled. Opening his palm again and pulling his arm closer to his body the crumbled pieces of earth flew towards the chain that held him and wrapped itself around it. He focused on the earth that enveloped the chain and snapped the chain, then he smirked. Senlin stood to his feet the earth that crumbled when the chain broke and the other pieces he had taken a deep breath and formed a large fist made of earth. He stood in the Ma Bo stance known to others as the universal horse stance that a few of the nations used for their bending forms but it goes by different names in the other nations. Feet wide spread apart, he squatted down keeping both arms pulled back and both fists resting at waist height, he inhaled in and with every punch, he exhaled out.
The fist made of earth pummeled at the metal door, the prison halls were soundproof for specific reasons and one reason was abused by jailors to torture or harass prisoners. The fist continued to fly and smash into the door, sweat pouring down his forehead, the loud thuds coming from the impact of the earth fist smashing into the metal cell door began to awaken his neighbors and those around them. They began shouting at each other and asking what was going on. The metal door from the outside began to warp into a strange shape, the bolts of the door hinges flew off and the door blew off its hinges. Bent and warped the door crashed, Senlin took what earth wasn't trapped in the metal door or didn't crumble to dust when he pounded on the cell door. He looked to into the cell to his left and made eye contact with a fellow prisoner putting his finger to his lips he signaled the prisoner to be quiet.
He looked both ways and ran towards the left door placing each of his ears on the door to try to make out any sound from the outside if he could. Suddenly the door begins to open, he hides behind the door as the guard steps inside the hall. Senlin closes slowly closes it shut, the guard turns around after seeing the door being shut to meet eye to eye with Senlin. Grinning Senlin grabs the guard by the throat and slams him again the metal wall. Placing his other hand around the guard's throat he begins to strangle the poor guard to death.
Several seconds later, the struggling guard stops moving. Senlin drags the lifeless body of the guard to his cell and changes into the guard's garments and grabs his keys. He opened the hatch door and walked out no guard in sight, he remained face down as the hat he wore atop of his covered half of his face. He continued walking through more hallways and downstairs until eventually, he reached an earth wall. Placing his hand against the wall he was able to feel indentations in the wall and felt the hole that was hidden in the wall. He stomped down and punched both fists into the wall, the wall slid downwards to reveal a hidden hallway.
General Senlin, receiving the report from the squad in Ta Shu.
The hallway led to a small room with some crates, one of the crates was open revealing it was full of a shipment of iron bracelets. He bent the hidden doorway back up to cover his tracks, grabbing the keys he took from the guard he had killed earlier, he unlocked the iron anklet he was still wearing. The anklet hit the ground with a small clink, he began to search the room for anything extra while he caught his breath and his heart rate returned to normal.
The exhilaration he received from escaping prison and haven't been caught yet, his heart was pounding in his chest. He moved the crates around underneath the crates was another hatch door, after giving the dog a few turns on the hatch door it finally popped open. Climbing down the ladder he ends up in a sewer system below the city. He went with his best guesses around the city sewage system eventually a few hours later he climbs out of a manhole.
Climbing out of the manhole and looking at the night sky brought a smile to Senlin's face deeply inhaling all the air his lungs could hold, he exhales it with satisfaction. Reeking of sewage he was now a free man, he looked in and around his surroundings the buildings here were mostly made of wood with earth foundations, and went through for miles around, pollution stunk the air here, in the far off distance he could barely eye what he thought was the Outer wall of the capital city. He knew he was now in the lower ring of Ba Sing Se.
He began to gather some stares not because he looked poor or anything simply because he reeked of sewage and death. A lady much older than him caught attention of Senlin and walked over to him, "Dear you stink of sewage and look like you just climbed out of the sewers beneath the city. Come with me, why don't you." she advised.
She extended her hand for him to hold so that she could lead him to her home. He knew the elderly woman was of no threat to him so he followed along with the woman and walked to her house. She resided the upper portion of the Lower Ring where those above the poverty line lived. She had unlocked the door to her home and guided him in. She walked over to her kitchen and grabbed a kettle and filled it with water. Using her spark rocks she lit a fire on her stove and placed the kettle upon the open flames.
"I am Haoke, what's your name?" Haoke introduced herself, Senlin still standing at the doorway. Hesitant to reveal his true identity he uttered a single word, "Taofan."
"Well Taofan, it's a pleasure to meet you, down the hallway last door on the left," she said.
She grabbed a large folded cloth and handed it to Senlin before lightly shoving him in that direction. He walks through her hallway and into her bathroom, he places the towel down on a dresser and then his clothes magically fall to the ground. He sits inside the metal tub filled with cold water and grabs a bucket and begins to wash.
"General!" a scout shouts saluting his commanding officer, the scout hands Senlin a scroll who opens it while the scout recites everything in the scroll.
"Reports have gone out the Water Tribes are moving towards Ta Shu it is one of the only towns in the area they can take control of before they're at the grand walls of Ba Sing Se." the scout stated.
Hands folded behind back, Senlin salutes him again, and he bows walking away. Taking the scroll and hiding it in his uniform he avoids turning in the report to the Council. Opening his eyes once again he finds himself wiping his face with another cloth while the one that Haoke had given him was around his waist. On the outside of the bathroom, there was a table with folded clothing, he had walked back into the bathroom to dress up in the new threads.
Surprisingly, the clothing fit him he wore middle ring garments so he would catch too much attention from guards if they ever looked at wanted posters once the prison guards find out he escaped. He had walked back into the living room/kitchen of the studio apartment in the upper Lower Ring, where he found the old woman pouring stew into a bowl for her guest. She slides a chair farther from the table suggesting that he sits down, he grabs a spoon and scoots in the chair he sat on towards the table. He begins to chow down on the stew finishing with minutes and signaling for seconds. Haoke chuckles and smiles pouring himself a second bowl.
Haoke places the soup on the table, and serves Senlin.
"It looks like you haven't enjoyed a meal in quite some time." Haoke mentions.
Senlin just nods. She sits across from him pondering on the idea of telling him why she picked him up from all the others. She one of the human traffickers that lived within the city walls, and could tell a lot about people just by reading their body language. Haoke was a people's person and could find out about someone no matter how hard they tried to hide it.
"Taofan, my new friend I must let you in on a little secret.." Haoke began, Senlin almost choking on his food he gripped his spoon tighter. "I am a criminal assistance agent, I assist criminals with escaping the city and 'life anew' elsewhere free of law abiders tracking you down." Haoke confided.
"You're a human trafficker...," Senlin responded.
"Yes, but it sounds more educated if I make more complex. I can help you get out of the city." Haoke said.
"Why me?" Senlin asked.
"A man crawling out of the sewers? I observed you from a distance I knew that without my help you wouldn't last twenty-four hours within the city. You'd be found and killed. I have people, a really good friend of mine is a crime boss named Baotu. He will begin the process only if you want my help. But in return, you must do something for us." Haoke explained.
"Us?" Senlin questioned. Haoke finishing her stew gets up and walks over to Senlin to collect his empty bowl of stew.
"Dixia gang," Haoke adds.
He chortles and murmured while hit by another flashback, "Daofei. You're daofei, never would I have thought that one day in my life I would seek the aid of the same people I had sent my soldiers to hunt down and dispatch."
"I'm in." Senlin decided.
"Who were you before this happened?" Haoke asked.
"I was once a general of Ba Sing Se, a part of the Council of Five who followed direct orders from Earth King Ta Po. I fought in the Thirty Year War, only to be betrayed by Avatar Ku Tei." Senlin revealed.
She grabs herself a hat, and then hands him a straw hat, "Earthbender or non-bender?" she asks.
"Non-benders aren't allowed to rank up to the general rank," Senlin answered, taking the hat from her and placing it on top of his head. She opens the door and gestures him to exit, she follows behind him locking the door.
"Follow me and stick close, the guards get antsy over here, especially at night. We're going straight to Baotu's hideout." Haoke added.
They pace down the street and begin to walk towards the stairs leading up to the middle ring, four entrances were around the middle ring. Haoke lived near the southern entrance, Senlin had began taking the first few steps up the stairs until Haoke nudges him and points to the right where a large sewer tunnel ended. She opened up the grate of the tunnel and led him in.
Walking further down the tunnel she asks, "So is Taofan your name? Because we're going to need an alias."
"My name is Senlin, my alias IS Taofan," Senlin replied, they turn through a series of tunnels, and they take a right.
They enter a larger tunnel that leads to a small room, the room ends up to be a dead end. Placing her hands on the wall, with her index finger she signals Senlin to come towards her, motioning an earthbending form, he looks at her, then stomps the ground and the wall sinks as a doorway appears before them. Haoke being the first to step through then Senlin follows behind bending the wall back up to close the hole he created.
The underground headquarters of Baotu's Dixia gang.
He looks around the giant sewer chamber, scanning the area he sees earthbenders and men holding weapons guarding a man on a throne. In a deep booming voice, the man stood from his throne lumbered past his guards, "Haoke, you've returned...who is this man you've brought before me?" he inquired.
Senlin and the man eye each other not breaking the staring contest, the man was younger than Senlin yet still old and wrinkly. His hair was styled short, greased up and combed back, he wore jewelry, a pendant with an armadillo lion's head as the charm and rings on both hands, some with an armadillo lion engraved on them. He wore expensive clothing his attire must've been made from the most expensive materials. No doubt taken from the corpse of a nobleman or even stolen from one. Such is the way of daofei, most don't honor or respect the wealthy dead.
Haoke kneels and bows to the man, "Baotu, this is Senlin." He extends his hand out and Haoke kisses the ring on his middle finger. He didn't notice before but he realized Haoke had the same matching tattoo as Baotu did, it was that of an armadillo lion. Most of the daofei had tattoos each tattoo symbolized their gangs some got flowers others got animals. There was a gang outside of Ba Sing Se who tattoos their members with a platypus bear's head, this technique is used to identify fellow gang members or daofei. Rivals used this to find an execute other daofei, something the guards haven't caught on yet.
What Baotu the Fanzui de laoban of the Dixia gang, is described to look like.
"I recognize that name, he was nicknamed the Betrayer by residents of the middle and upper rings. This was some time ago, he was put trial but nothing ever came up." Baotu avowed.
"How did you escape the palace prison?" Baotu questioned, folding his fingers between each other and focusing on Senlin.
"Doesn't matter. I'm out, and I wasn't captured or killed." Senlin replied.
"Why do you come to me?" Baotu asked.
"I want out of the city," Senlin answered.
"And you think it's easy to leave the city?" Baotu asked.
"No, that's why I came here to seek assistance," Senlin responded.
"Have you fabricated an alias yet? Very important step if you want to get past that checkpoint before leaving the outer wall." Baotu asked.
"Taofan," Senlin said.
"Taofan...Tao..fan.." Baotu repeated while also rolling the name on his tongue. "Sounds convincing enough, alright I'll help you get out of the city. Help the Dixia gang on some jobs and while you're out on the field my people will you forge new documents to get you out." Baotu said.
"You will go to the middle-lower ring, you will go to Dufan's restaurant, there you will speak to Dufan. Ask him if my canteens are ready.." Baotu explained, pausing Baotu gestures one of his men. The man throws a sack of gold at Senlin, who catches it.
"...here's a sack of gold, you pay him that sack of gold for my canteens." Baotu finished.
"After you have done so, go to the house behind his restaurant, there I will wait patiently for you.." Baotu noted Senlin had nodded in agreement.
Haoke climbs up a ladder and opens the lid of a manhole climbing out. Senlin grabs hold of the sack, and climbs the ladder a little, then jumps off, he lands on the ground again. He brings his hands to his waist and quickly raises them upwards, a large pillar of earth raises and shoots him out of the manhole. Landing next to Haoke, he carries the sack they begin to walk towards the restaurant.
He follows Haoke's lead to Dufan's restaurant, which happens to be in the middle-lower ring. The nightlife of Ba Sing Se is quite beautiful, people from different parts of the world have come to visit the city on vacation or some live here. Regardless of the ring, the nightlife is still great the lower ring is a little dangerous depending on the area that you're in but it gets safer the higher you go.
"Canteens, what are canteens?" Senlin asked.
"Canteens are contraband coming in from other towns from the eastern or western province. Baotu has alchemists around the Earth Kingdom that make psychedelics or other types of illegal medicines, cure-alls, elixirs, you name it." Haoke answered.
Dufan's restaurant.
A pretty big building is seen in the distance, several patrons eating inside, the building was walled by four walls but the dining area was more outside. The diners had an option to eat inside or outside. The large wooden supports held the awning roof up and the architecture of the restaurant was sort of eastern with a hint of northern Air Temple designs into it. A tall brown-skinned middle-aged man, in tattered green clothing, with light green eyes and a brownish top knot styled hair. The topknot was held by a band that had an ostrich horse stitched into it, he had no tattoos.
The man lifts his head glancing at Haoke, "Password?" he asks.
Haoke begins to make hand signs of a "D", "H" and an "S", the man nods and walks them into the restaurant. The hostess at the entrance bows to her superior and moves out of the way for Dufan and his guests. He opens the door in the back of the restaurant, the room is dark and the man pulls out spark rocks from his left pocket and begins scraping the rocks against each other lighting a spark on the wick of the only candle in the room. The lit candle brightly glows within the small room illuminating every corner in the room.
Boxes and sacks of money littered the floor of the room, the man turns his head back to Haoke, "So I have Baotu's canteen of goods here, Haoke. Just like he wanted.." he said.
He extended out his hand in front of Senlin, "The name's Dufan." he introduced himself.
"Senlin." Senlin extended his hand and shook Dufan's hand.
Bending down he lifts a box one by one and gives three boxes to Senlin. Haoke hands Dufan the sack of gold given to her by Baotu. Dufan opens the sack of gold by removing the thread tied around securing the bag's contents, the gold coins were shining inside his mouth twinkles. Dufan closes the bag again securing the thread around it and tied it in a knot and tossing it next to the pile of sacks on the floor.
"Your boss arrived, he's behind the restaurant in the special VIP section of my restaurant it's mostly for daofei but it's used by fanzui de laobans," Dufan added.
Walking out the room with the shipments and around to the back of the restaurant Senlin knocks on the door with his foot. A door slot opens with a pair of eyes asking, "Password?" Haoke walks up and does the letter gang signs, the door slot closes and the sounds behind the door are heard it sounded like a few locks were being unlocked, the daofei fanzuis favored extra locks for extra stall times they need to get away if the guards or their enemies came knocking. Senlin walks in first with the three boxes of canteens, putting the crates somewhere on the floor. Stretching his back he turns to look at Baotu, Haoke closing the door behind her and the doorman locking the door again.
Dixia gang member asks Haoke and Senlin for the password.
"Senlin! Good job I knew I could count on you. It's a little hard finding someone good at numbers. Children aren't always reliable. One of my men is inside of the prison in the Middle Ring, my right-hand man, my best friend." Baotu said.
"Long brown hair, glasses, armadillo lion tattoo on his neck make sure you look for that as well." Baotu described.
Haoke and Senlin walk out of the build and down the streets of the middle-lower ring, the skies are darkened at midnight. Three hours pass by and they finally reach the lower middle ring a small stream runs across a part of the lower middle ring and right across this stream happens to be the location of the prison. The prison here isn't as big at the palace prison where they house the most dangerous criminals of the eastern province. It also isn't as guarded as the royal prison seeing as the criminals here aren't of the highest levels of danger. They scanned the nearby area of a servant entrance and waited for a few minutes, there were two guards outside patrolling the area.
Senlin picks up a pretty big rock and splits it into two rocks, he begins to whistle at a low range and then picks it up at a higher range. One of the guards picks up on the frequency, both guards look at each other and nod in agreement. The guard on the left walks towards the sound, and Senlin flings the small rock striking the guard on the head knocking him out. The whistling is still being heard in the other guard's ear, he runs towards the sound and a thud is heard as he drops to the ground.
Senlin and Haoke walk straight up and into the prison wearing guard uniforms hopefully remaining to be unseen. If a guard gets suspicious Senlin has no issue killing the guard, and hiding the body. They had to focus they were here for one reason and that was to save Baotu's best friend Qian Zei. Slipping unseen past other guards, on a counter, Haoke had eyed a list that a clerk had put down and went off in another direction. She's hoping that list might have a list of all the prisoners in each cell and the floor and cell numbers. Looking around the area making sure no one is paying attention her hands slip on the counter and steals the list on the clipboard. They continue walking in a random direction while she reads the list of names of all the prisoners. Turning pages she finds his name 'Qian Zei, third-floor cell thirteen'.
"I found him...third floor, cell room thirteen, let's go," Haoke said.
Letters and numbers were carved into the walls to let the guards or guests know what floor they were in. Senlin and Haoke continued walking upstairs and through hallways looking for the third floor and cell room thirteen. Half an hour passed by and they finally reached the third floor and pace over to the thirteenth cell. A man was eating a meal inside, the food server must've passed on by a few minutes before. The man had long brown hair, he wore glasses, and he had a large tattoo of an armadillo lion.
The man notices the guards in front of the cell door, "What do you want from me now?" he asked.
"You're coming with us, we're moving you from this cell," Haoke replied. Haoke slid the cell door open, and Senlin walked into and cuffed him with earth braces. He look glances up at Haoke and then lifts his glasses and rubs his eyes then readjusts his glasses.
"Haoke?" he wondered.
The old lady stood serious then she threw herself in his arms as he caught her. They hugged each other and signed the Dixia handshake, Qian Zei looked up at Senlin.
"Who is he?" he asked.
"Baotu tasked him into helping you escape this prison, we need you back," Haoke explained.
"Well? What are we waiting for?! I have numbers to count!" Qian Zei blurted.
Turns out Qian Zei was an earthbender too, he didn't need his hands which were bounded together he stomped the ground and a secret wall sunk.
"In here," he said.
They followed behind him. They walked into the secret tunnel and climbed down a few ladders, that led to another tunnel with a small stream of water running through it. Must be the tube that carries the stream to other parts of the middle ring of Ba Sing Se. They reach the end of the tube and open the grate. Following the stream for the rest of the way to lead them to the border wall between the lower and middle rings of the city where they had first entered. Qian Zei points at a nearby cart with a tarp inside of it jumps into the cart and covers himself up with the tarp to hide inside. Senlin runs over to it and begins pushing the cart back to Baotu's hideout. After an hour they finally reach the tunnel that leads to Baotu's hideout.
The wall leading to the large sewer cistern where the Dixia gang operates falls Baotu quickly juts his head to the right and fixed his gaze at the man standing the doorway. He grabs a wooden calculator and runs over to the man who entered the entrance behind him was Senlin and Haoke. They run towards each other give each other a heavy hug, patting each other on the back and chuckling enjoying the reunion. Baotu hands Qian Zei his calculator, and Qian Zei walks off to the treasury room to start on his calculations.
Pointing at Senlin he smiles, "You. This wouldn't have been possible without you." he says.
Baotu reaches into his pockets and brings out the forged papers that Senlin needs to pass the checkpoints to leave the city. They shake the hands of each other as Senlin grabs his new identity papers, reading the information on the documents to remember whatever was written on them. Haoke happy also looked down at the ground feeling a little scorn. Senlin and Baotu look over in concern expressions on their faces.
Baotu, hands Senlin his passport. It says, "Taofan, traveler."
"Haoke, what's the issue?" Baotu asked.
"Nothing just remembered today's the day the justice system failed my boy many years ago. That's the reason I'm here, for vengeance." Haoke replied.
Senlin looks over at Baotu, "Whatever she wants, we need your approval." he says.
"Senlin, help me avenge my son, I want to assassinate the Earth King. You get your little slice of revenge and so does everyone in this cistern." Haoke responded.
"You two are crazy! That's a high-risk move, do you know what you're asking? Assassinating the Earth King?!" Baotu avowed.
"That will get you two killed! But...I won't deny you your deaths...Haoke's willing to die to avenge the death of her son. Senlin you could take your documents and leave or you could stay and do one last job. Up to you." Baotu added.
Senlin grinning ever so wickedly, "I'm in." he agreed. A flashback triggered in his mind as he let the last few words escape his lips.
Senlin remembers walking into the gargantuan palace of the head chief of the Southern Water Tribe. Kneeling before Chief Aput, the chieftain at the time during the Thirty Year War, he kneels and bows before the chief with respect. "What is it, General Senlin of the Ba Sing Se province?" Chief Aput asked, Senlin stood up and handed him a scroll with the seal of the Council of Five holding the parchment together. Aput removed the seal and unrolled the scroll revealing the contents inside.
"It is the plans of the Earth Kingdom, chief," Senlin replied, the plans detailed a map of the eastern province's movements within the Earth Kingdom. Chief Aput closed the scroll and placed it in his pocket. He sits back down on his throne and gestures Senlin to get out, walking backward out of the palace Senlin leaves bowing to the chief.
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