"A wedding." He turned away and re-lit the lamps. Frowning, Katara stood up and brushed herself off. She went to the window. Out on the street, she saw a slow procession of brightly-dressed, soaked people cowering under umbrellas. One of them, a man, sat on a palanquin. It rocked dangerously from side to side as the carriers labored to slog through the mud. Her fingers curled around the grate and she tried to get a better look. One of the procession bent fire into a little stick of firecrackers -- they fizzled out miserably in the rain. The others around him tried to make up for the lack of noise by clashing their cymbals and banging their drums.

Diverted, Katara leaned out the window again. The bride stared up at the rain and winced. Grinning, Katara lifted one knee to the windowsill and leaned out still further. She brought her arms up in a bending posture; the rain parted like curtains and the wedding party slowly dropped their umbrellas. They opened their hands and felt no rain. The bride beamed. The groom stepped forward and lifted her in his arms; he carried her through Katara's rainless corridor under a hail of money, cheering, and fireworks toward his palanquin. Katara tried to make her bending stretch to follow them as the palanquin resumed its travels down the road. She reached, felt herself waver, sensed her knee slipping-

-and felt Zuko's arms circle her from behind. "I told you not to lean too far."~ Stormbenders, by Fandomme [link]


It's official-- I suck at backgrounds. No wonder I never draw them...

The perspective is horrendous because I drew it without a straight edge (and my eye is incapable of reading a straight line), but I've always wanted to finish a city scape. A lot of this is loosely based off of Chinese architecture (because it's beautiful, and very Fire-Nation-ish), but I don't think I did it justice. The detail was a pain in the butt...

AAANYWAYS! If there's a Zutarian out there who doesn't know Fandomme's Stormbenders (found here: [link] ), SHAAAAAAAME! It is by far one of the greatest and most famous Zutara fanfictions ever written. Fandomme has this amazing thoroughness when it comes to creating a scene... bah, I could ramble forever about how amazing the story is, so just do yourself a favor and read it.

For details of Katara and Zuko, go here:
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