The end of the Hundred Year War led by Avatar Aang was still a legend among every school in the Earth Kingdom. Sometimes Avani still couldn't understand what so great was about it.

Well, yeah. Avatar Aang stopped the Hundred Year War, but after he turned his back to the world in the first place. Besides, who else but the Avatar would have been able to stop a strong Fire Lord who had terrorized the world for years?

Then, comes Avatar Korra. She was also a great figure of power. An Avatar who stopped an Anti-benders Revolution and as well, restoring the balance between the spirit World and physical world, allowing spirits roam among us.

But, she didn't stop the hate and differences between benders and non-benders. Which it's been the main issue we've got the last thirteen years since Avatar Korra died.

There has been rumors about the Order of the White Lotus looking for the new Avatar since then. There has been rumors about neighbor villages and from Ba Sing Se -from the times my uncle, a Dai Li agent comes from visiting there- that the next Avatar would be born on the Earth kingdom.

The worrisome thing is that things have taken a negative turn toward Benders from the past ten years. Avatar Korra may had kept peace while she was alive but that didn't last. Non-Benders have taken a dislike toward Benders, specially the latest governors the earth federation have taken, and even part of Republic city, but not all.

Most of them have started taking prisoners the benders they've come across when they see them bending. And slowly, a new war has started. Everyone against everyone.

No one was safe anymore.

The politics have stated that benders are easier to commit crimes and kill people. And Non-benders want to protect themselves with what they know. Prison.

For some this has become a new threat. Bending has become forbidden, new laws have been made. A bender, either water, earth, Fire or air caught bending, they'll be taken straight to Republic City's maximum protection holding cells -located on the western part of the city-, the simple words for what we call the most secure anti-bending prison.

But this isn't all. While this has been one part. Benders haven't taken this new legacy with their arms crossed. The ones who no longer wants to be imprisioned like they used to on the Hundred Year War, have taken action, resisting arrest, acting out and attacking non-benders in fear for them being part of the new politics. They have hurt and even killed others for their freedom and ran away, hiding between the shadows.

More ammo for the non benders to take benders as dangerous. They have even made clear to the Order of the White Lotus to stop searching for the Avatar, and if they continue they'll be throw to prison as well. Reason as to why the search of the Avatar has been postponed for these thirteen years

My uncle Hiresh has kept us updated since he first began working a year ago as Dai Li. Only them are the ones allowed to use their bending and the benders, specially earthbenders have endlessly filled for any available position on the police force in Ba Sing Se. To say they also earned hate was an understatement.

Dai Li now are hated by Benders and Non-Benders alike and that brings more worry for my uncle. He is a good earthbender, having learned when he was a child to use the neutral Jing under the tutelage of Master Beifong in Republic city. The key to earthbending. Waiting and listening. Even if I know he can take care of himself, the worry doesn't leave me at all.

My name's Avani and I'm an earthbender. My mother hates I'm an earthbender, she hates my dad was an earthbender as well. You see, my dad used to work on the mines, extracting coal to sell to Fire Nation ships. The habit of working for the Fire Nation developing in the Hundred Year War wasn't easy to break for several generations of earthbenders who were still on the Hundred Year War mindset. He was caught by some Non-Benders once the new law was fresh, and the new revolution of benders wasn't still active. No one in my village had taken the new politics seriously even after what happened in the past, not until my dad, his friend and three other benders were arrested.

Since then, I've been watched by people who knew I was a bender. Some people had pointed fingers but my mom had steered them away from me, claiming I'm not one. I've been tested. I've been provoked and I've been humiliated in order to prove I was one. I once was taken to the middle of the village by a Non-bender trying to prove I was a bender.

It was a struggle trying to keep my bending hidden, my stubborn nature had made it possible. I kept myself unmoving, rotten to the ground like a rock, not giving up. Not giving them the satisfaction to prove I was one and be taken away.

Since then, anti-benders have stayed away from me and my family which makes it easier for me to sneak away at night to practice my bending. It's the best time to practice the waiting and the listening part of my bending.

However, sometimes there's a part of me who hates this. Hates to hide away what I am. Something I'd never show to keep myself safe and under the radar from anti benders and my best friend, Ryuu understands me. He's a firebender. And one who's a natural to learn his element, sometimes he makes me jealous, sometimes his skill to control Fire makes me want to learn it.

But I know it is not possible. There's only one person who can bend more than one element and being that person isn't in my vocabulary. Not in this times anyway.

The Avatar, since Avatar Korra passed away thirteen years ago has earned hate. Hate from every corner of the world -except for Republic City- for what the Avatar represented. I hope he/she wasn't reborn. It'd be easier for everyone if they didn't exist. The world didn't need him or her right now. Not when benders were thrown to jail, when benders are trying to defend themselves, we didn't the Avatar to be thrown in there as well for being a wielder of four elements. 

The only ones who could resolve the problem of non benders versus benders were themselves and not the Avatar. What's the Avatar going to do or understand about non benders being a bender her/himself?

This time, the Avatar was no needed. Whoever the Avatar was, I hoped they understood that and didn't even try to learn the other elements.

The Avatar wasn't needed.