Avatar The Last Airbender Fan Fiction ❯ Ritual ❯ Water ( Chapter 3 )

Water

 

They gathered the fallen from the last siege, laying them out across the water's edge, watching their already ashen faces turn blue with the snow. Their warrior garb was ripped and burned, but no one bothered to change it. There were too many. There was too little time.

 

Carefully, as each healer proclaimed them dead, they were wrapped in a tarp and tied together. They brought boats out, taking two bodies at a time far away from the city's edge, into the depths of their ocean. The bodies were dropped at different places, the tarp keeping them securely in place, and the healers whispered a small blessing or prayer. Their spirits would explore the deep ocean for as long as they could, until they found the surface again. Then their spirit could find a way back to life and rejoin them as a new person, in a new life.

 

The healers continued their rounds, shaking their heads at each new body brought before them.

 

There would be no room left in the oceans for the spirits to wander at this rate.