Avatar; The Royal Firebender.

Traitor of Freedom.

 Sokka's eyes fluttered open abruptly in the early hours of the morning. It had been about 2 days since they had met up with Jet's freedom fighters and something didn't seem to sit right with him. Though the commotion outside didn't help his uneasy feeling about Jet. The day prior, He, Zuko and some of Jet's lackeys allegedly stopped an assassin sent after Jet with Zuko backing the story about the assassin having insider knowledge on the firenation. Even so the two of them were not exactly willing to trust Jet yet, especially when Zuko had noticed that Jet had lied about what he actually uses his hook swords for. Now however he's faking being asleep waiting for the commotion to stop. Across from him Zuko is out cold though he usually was first to bed and first to wake. Aang was also asleep in a hammock a few feet above them in the shack. Katara had her own shack upon her request, months of travel with 3 snoring men must have taken it's toll on her psyche. Sokka's thoughts are dragged back to the matter at hand however as he quietly gets to his feet and peers out the open folded cloth covering the shack entrance like a door.

"Be Careful!" Smellerbee scolds just above a whisper, behind her Pipsqueak had nearly dropped a keg of blasting jelly after bumping into Longshot. "You drop one of those and the whole forest will wake up and we'll be cleaning what's left of you off of five trees."

Sokka watches as the group carries the casks of blasting jelly down the pulley system towards the forest floor. Once the coast is clear, he stealthily makes his way down another pulley tailing the group from a far. Part of him was thinking in hindsight about getting Zuko to assist in following them but it was a bit late now. Sokka keeps his right hand firmly on the club at his waist just in case he needs to draw it and follows the lot as they make their way through the forest floor.

"Smellerbee? What's gonna happen to all the people in the town when we blow the dam?" The Duke questions but the bowl cut sporting girl doesnt know how to answer. "Won't all the water kill them?"

"Jet has it handled, he wouldn't have us blow the dam with the village still inhabited by all those people, but we will be blowing it to flood the town and flush out the firebenders garrisoned there." She replies, but even Sokka can hear the uncertainty in her voice. "We just need to trust Jet and all these firebenders will be gone."

"Do you think Avatar Lee is a good guy?" The Duke questions again and Pipsqueak pipes up this time.

"He helped save Jet from that assassin yesterday and from what we heard he even helped free a bunch of earth kingdom slaves from a firenation shipyard. There's no way an Avatar could be evil, he just looks mean because of the scar." Pipsqueak reassures the youngest member of the group.

"He probably scowls all the time because of what happened to his face and the fact that the people he use to look up to are now hunting him down like he's their arch enemy." Sneers responds. "It's hard to believe since we've only known the firebenders as bad but he grew up in the firenation so to him they might have not been bad."

"Or he could have just been force fed all their propaganda." Jet interjects, the group hadnt even noticed that they wandered all the way to the rendezvous point above the damn. "What we do know for sure is that he's against the firenation, the people he grew up around and once called friends chased him from the colonies and burned his face. He knows what they're capable of, and we need to remember what happened to us as well." Jet instructs. Having heard enough, Sokka pushes away from the tree turning to head back to the hideout but instead as he turns he sees a steel arrowhead pointed right at him. Longshot had snuck up on him while he was eavesdropping on the others.

"Move." Longshot instructs, the singular word stern and forceful. Sokka couldn't even dream of drawing his club before Longshot loosed the arrow he was pointing at his chest and so the water tribesman complies with what he's told. Sokka raises his hands and turns back towards Jet and begins walking.