Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Astrid. Astrid was special, she was a bender. But when she was still a baby, she was taken from her home, and locked up in a tower in the middle of the largest village in all of the Ko'Kwan Region. The King and the Lord of Astrid's village and Region, both shared concerns for the young one's power, and soon began to fear her. Which is why she spends her days locked away in the tower, with but one book, and one friend, and one instrument .Unaware of her powers, as they grew every day. She has never seen dirt, for it was kept away from her, and out of sight, but as she grew older, she could lean out her only window, and see, just barely, a glimpse of dirt at the Village gate where her only friend Nathen, was on duty that day. The day of her 14'th birthday.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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