The Life and Times of Raisa Kseniya

[raisa]

My home is gone, I have lived there all my life and now I can never go back to Omashu. My father is gone too, I never imagined a day without his comforting smile, but now I know that it's becuase it's so heart breaking. I wish I could have my life back, I hate who ever betrayed my family. Kina tells me that it was fate, nothing could have stopped it, but that isn't true. I know that somehow the Fire Nation is responsible for my fathers death and the reason I and my family can never go home. I have vowed that I will find a way, anyway to help destroy the Fire Nation; I am not a fighter- yet- but I will aid in anyway i can. My sisters may be content in getting by working in some strangers teahouse, but i am not so easily placaited, my revenge will be bitter, but it will be the best feeling in the world.

We have been in Ba Sing Se for a few months now and I am determined to find some one to teach me to fight, anyone. I may not be able to do anything now, but as I grow strong I know my goal is growing closer and that will give me new strength to keep going.

[raisa]

I have been unsuccessful. That is all, I have found no teacher and I have lost even more since I came to this disgusting city. Not only has poverty set me to sell the few precious things i brought from Omashu, but I have lost my mother nad sisters as well. I don't know where they have gone, but when I returned to the alley that we had been calling home they were gone. I waited day and night in the alley for nearly a week and never saw them. It was been several weeks since that and I believe I shall never see my family again.

Though I have met a nice woman who has brought me to her home and allowed me to swim in luxuries, like a bath, that i haven't had for a good long while and though she seems very nice I have not forgotten my quest. Now more than ever without my sisters weary guidence I have become more set on finding a teacher. Maybe this girl will be my salvation, the start of a new life less jaded.