Post by karl on Jan 9, 2007 14:59:58 GMT -6
"I am Joo Dee"
Don't be fooled by her ever-present smile. Joo Dee was sinister and dangerous- but not in the way of the Fire Nation. No, she may give off a strange vibe, but she doesn't seem dangerous, especially to the important dignitaries she guided. Sometimes they grew annoyed with her, but she never creeped them out. At the beginning...
"You are in Ba Sing Sei now. Everyone is safe here."
Aang, the young Avatar, was one such important person. He was not in the city, but, having been sighted near the outer wall, he would not be long in joining them. Joo Dee stood at the train station; hair set straight, brown eyes dull and lifeless. Her green Earth Kingdom uniform looked natural on her unnatural stillness as train after train came by, Avatar-less.
"Ba Sing Sei has many walls. There are the walls on the outside that protect us, and walls on the inside to create order."
Inside, Joo Dee's mind was the scariest part of her. It was filled to the brim with everything from what not to tell people, to tour guide information. But curiously, Joo Dee had no knowledge of her past. Nothing. For as long as she could remember, she had been a Dai Lee tour guide, showing people about the city without actually changing what the city acted like. No history before that, no friends, no family. Nothing. Twenty years of nothing and ten years of guiding were her memories. No more. But she didn't mind.
"Your request for an audience with the Earth King is being processed, and will be put through in about a month!"
Long Feng had told her, through a set of Dai Lee agents, not to listen when anyone but the Avatar asks about seeing the Earth King. They could disrupt the power that Long Feng held over the Earth King, could completely uproot Ba Sing Sei. He would send someone with the documents later, after the tour. They all knew already, she had practiced the speech. Six to eight weeks. Of course, they would never let the Avatar see the Earth King.
“One doesn’t just pop in on the Earth King!”
Eternal vigilance was important, otherwise Joo Dee could do nothing but fail. The Dai Lee could not allow important people to know the truth. So whenever anyone was about to get the truth, Joo Dee just shook her head, still smiling, and they knew what that meant. Don’t tell them. Whatever you do, don’t tell them what you know; or else… And they didn’t. They must never know.
“I am to be your guide as long as you are in the city!”
Empty was the best word to describe Joo Dee. Empty of emotion, empty of compassion, empty of memories. She knew only her job, her extremely important job of keeping the city safe from those who might tell the truth. And everyone knew, the truth was deadly, breeding anarchy. Ba Sing Sei was orderly, and it would stay that way, thanks to her.
((Two things: one, half of the things that need to be woven in were not applicable to her, second, check out the first letter of every paragraph))
Don't be fooled by her ever-present smile. Joo Dee was sinister and dangerous- but not in the way of the Fire Nation. No, she may give off a strange vibe, but she doesn't seem dangerous, especially to the important dignitaries she guided. Sometimes they grew annoyed with her, but she never creeped them out. At the beginning...
"You are in Ba Sing Sei now. Everyone is safe here."
Aang, the young Avatar, was one such important person. He was not in the city, but, having been sighted near the outer wall, he would not be long in joining them. Joo Dee stood at the train station; hair set straight, brown eyes dull and lifeless. Her green Earth Kingdom uniform looked natural on her unnatural stillness as train after train came by, Avatar-less.
"Ba Sing Sei has many walls. There are the walls on the outside that protect us, and walls on the inside to create order."
Inside, Joo Dee's mind was the scariest part of her. It was filled to the brim with everything from what not to tell people, to tour guide information. But curiously, Joo Dee had no knowledge of her past. Nothing. For as long as she could remember, she had been a Dai Lee tour guide, showing people about the city without actually changing what the city acted like. No history before that, no friends, no family. Nothing. Twenty years of nothing and ten years of guiding were her memories. No more. But she didn't mind.
"Your request for an audience with the Earth King is being processed, and will be put through in about a month!"
Long Feng had told her, through a set of Dai Lee agents, not to listen when anyone but the Avatar asks about seeing the Earth King. They could disrupt the power that Long Feng held over the Earth King, could completely uproot Ba Sing Sei. He would send someone with the documents later, after the tour. They all knew already, she had practiced the speech. Six to eight weeks. Of course, they would never let the Avatar see the Earth King.
“One doesn’t just pop in on the Earth King!”
Eternal vigilance was important, otherwise Joo Dee could do nothing but fail. The Dai Lee could not allow important people to know the truth. So whenever anyone was about to get the truth, Joo Dee just shook her head, still smiling, and they knew what that meant. Don’t tell them. Whatever you do, don’t tell them what you know; or else… And they didn’t. They must never know.
“I am to be your guide as long as you are in the city!”
Empty was the best word to describe Joo Dee. Empty of emotion, empty of compassion, empty of memories. She knew only her job, her extremely important job of keeping the city safe from those who might tell the truth. And everyone knew, the truth was deadly, breeding anarchy. Ba Sing Sei was orderly, and it would stay that way, thanks to her.
((Two things: one, half of the things that need to be woven in were not applicable to her, second, check out the first letter of every paragraph))
