“She was two years older than me,” Gyatso said. “Last year, she was on a relief mission in the southwest of the Earth Kingdom. The Western Kingdom Trading Company—the same company that sent those Earthbenders here—had been mining outside of this one village for years. They had ruined the soil, poisoned the water, broken the land. Those who couldn’t afford to move away stayed and kept working in the mines. They started to get sick. And the more they worked, the sicker they became. Soon, nearly the entire village was dying. Yama and the other Air Nomads had basically gone to care for these
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