[Avatar: the Last Airbender - content warning, genocide]
The news spread quickly, a shock rippling through roads and villages and cities, spreading from one end of the world to the other like black smoke: the Air Nomads were dead.
Impossible, people said, destroying an entire people in one day, attacking the Temples, the four human settlements that needed flight to reach?
Not so, the Fire Nation replied as they advanced, not quite: see the Western Air Temple, with ropes dangling down the cliff; see the Northern Air Temple, with trails halfway up the mountain and bare rock suitable for climbing after; see the Eastern, already re-inhabited by a nonbending mystic; see the Southern, where our dragons bore us up and our bodies will cover the floors even for another century.
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The news spread quickly, a shock rippling through roads and villages and cities, spreading from one end of the world to the other like black smoke: the Air Nomads were dead.
Impossible, people said, destroying an entire people in one day, attacking the Temples, the four human settlements that needed flight to reach?
Not so, the Fire Nation replied as they advanced, not quite: see the Western Air Temple, with ropes dangling down the cliff; see the Northern Air Temple, with trails halfway up the mountain and bare rock suitable for climbing after; see the Eastern, already re-inhabited by a nonbending mystic; see the Southern, where our dragons bore us up and our bodies will cover the floors even for another century.
Impossible? Hardly.