Avatar; The Royal Firebender.

From Harming to Healing.

 It's been a couple of hours since the last class that Yagoda had to teach had left, leaving her to tidy up the small healing hut she's been teaching in for the past few decades. The elderly woman has a similar wrinkled expression to Pakku and silver gray hair framing her face in wavy bangs. It doesn't take long to actually clean, the floor is mostly covered in pelts and those don't exactly need to be shaken down, just need the water pulled from the furs so that they remain dry. There isn't exactly dirt to be trekked in when there isn't any dirt beneath their feet. The pelts are changed out every few weeks to avoid them rotting and today she's placing down new pelts to keep the icy hut warm. As she's dragging the medical practice dummy back to its spot a figure darkens the door, as she looks up from pulling the dummy to see Prince Zuko in her doorway. "Avatar Zuko?" She questions seeing him step inside the healing hall. "Did you get lost? This is the healing hall, you're not hurt are you?"

"No. I'm fine, and I'm not lost." Zuko begins, "I wanted to talk to you actually, there was an incident earlier and... I learned I can use waterbending to heal." Yagoda's eyes widened slightly hearing this statement from Zuko. "I... accidentally scalded Princess Yue while trying to waterbend but when I went to help her with the burns... I healed her."

"So you came to me to learn how to heal then? Why not stick with Master Pakku and work on learning Waterbending more?" Yagoda asks, causing Zuko to tilt his head to the side allowing the older woman to get a better look at his scar. "Ah, how recent is the wound?"

"Three years old, my father burned my face in an Agni Kai, it's a fire duel. It's the mark of the banished, the burn took my sight and my hearing on that side." Zuko explains, running his fingers along the edge of the scar.

"I've worked with old wounds before, and I can tell you it'll take a while for it to heal completely but we should be able to heal it. Though it will probably take a very long time to do." Yagoda says, "Do me a favor and drag the dummy back to the table, I should have asked one of my students to help move it but I didn't and my back is killing me." She complains and Zuko does as his new teacher asks.

Setting the wooden training dummy on the icy table above a pool of water, Zuko watches as Yagoda slowly makes her way to the large pelt closest to the wooden dummy. The mannequin has lines throughout its entire body centered around the chest and abdomen with lines leading throughout. "Healing through waterbending relies on flowing the chi of the one being healed to the area that is damaged. The chi focused so densely in the area allows the body to heal itself quicker than it would normally. The younger the wound, the easier it is for the body to heal it to the state it was before the injury took place. You can even use your own chi to heal instead of their own and you can use it to heal yourself." Yagoda explains as she draws the water upwards into the air with a subtle movement of her arm before steaming it towards the mannequin, the water coats her hand and flows into the crevices in the dummy before beginning to glow a bright blue color.

Far to the south.

Iroh sighs to himself as he and Lieutenant Jee walk towards the staging tent that Iroh is very familiar with. A field command tent, usually on the battlefield, is meant as a command post for the higher rank members of the firenation army to command their troops from the front lines. Admiral Zhao had requested General Iroh to attend this meeting, and around them the ships of other generals and admirals are present in the northernmost base in firenation territory. From the reports Iroh has gotten from the members of the white lotus, Avatar Zuko and his company had left the northern air temple nearly a week ago and have certainly made it to the north pole by now. "Zhao is likely going to ask me to assist in his invasion of the north pole. This will probably be my only chance to catch up with him, the boy still has much to learn." Iroh thinks to himself as Lieutenant Jee pulls aside the tent flap into the mock war room Zhao has set up. The mutton chop sporting man himself is standing at the far side of the tent studying a map he has posted on the wall that shows the travel lines of Zuko and his group. As Iroh steps inside the tent, each of the other officers stand and bow to pay their respect to the former crown prince turned General.