The Origin of Roh-Shan

Boat

"I can't believe they got us again." Roh muttered. Being an old pro at getting knocked out by now, she had woken up a while before the other two, who were just now fading into consciousness.

Haider instinctively struggled at first, pulling on the ropes that bound all of their hands to the same post behind them. Another rope wrapped several times around their chests. Their feet were tied up separately, shoes gone. "Where are we?" He demanded.

Soft daylight entered from the cracks around a door and two porthole windows, providing a dim light to the whole room, reminding Roh of naptime at the daycare. The wooden walls were painted pale blue, and several barrels sat around the small storage room.

Haider didn't really need to ask where they were. The rocking of the whole room was hard to ignore.

"What are you two waiting for? Use your fire to burn the ropes or something."

"Shh!" Roh hissed. "We need a plan first. They keep checking on us so if they walk in right now we have to look tied up and unconscious. We'll burn the rope when we're ready to act."

"So what's the plan?" Kota asked.

"Good question. And where are our shoes?"

"They must've taken them off and left them on the shore, I guess. Probably were klunky and full of shit."

"Aw, I really liked those shoes!"

"Okay okay stop, forget about the shoes. We need to think of something." Haider squeezed his eyes shut in concentration. "Based on the rocking, I don't think this boat is very big. Do we know who else is on here with us?"

"I think just those two, the "freaks", as you called them." Roh said. "I've only heard their voices."

"Ara." Kota said. "She called him Ara. And I think he called her something like... I can't remember. Something that rhymes with "even""

"Iden." Haider recalled.

"Yeah! Okay, if it's just the two of them, we can easily overpower them, right?"

"I think we're 0-for-3 when it comes to fighting them." Haider pointed out.

"They probably have more tranqs, so we gotta find those first and get control of them." Roh said. "Iden's probably the one carrying them, so if one of us takes on Ara, and two of us pin her long enough to search--"

"Even if we somehow get the tranq's away, she's gonna get them right back. It's a small boat." Haider said.

"So we tranq them!"

"Okay, but we need a Plan B for when one of you fucks that up." Haider said.

"Excuse you!"

Kota, unfortunately, was in the middle. "He means me."

Haider paused. "I mean... not you specifically. You're both fuck-ups."

"Well I certainly wasn't any help during the jailbreak, was I?"

"Where is this coming from, Kota?" Roh asked. "There wasn't really much you could do anyway, we got out by earthbending and airbending, you didn't need to do anything."

"Hm." She mumbled. Still, useless, and they didn't need her now either.

Haider rolled his eyes, "I mean, this isn't really the time for compliments but I'm pretty sure I woulda drowned if you hadn't taken charge in the sewer, and Avatar over here would still be cowering on that ledge."

"Thanks." Roh shot.

Kota, however, was still not empowered by this.

"Plan B." Haider urged. "Roh attacks and we wait here." He was only half joking.