"Kyoshi Island's behavior after the war has long confounded scholars. Their secession from the Earth Kingdom in favor of the rule of Suki the Steel Unagi has been the cause of more than one lengthy, futile argument. I have recently recovered a correspondence that, I hope, will shed light on this shadowed corner of history." -Zhang Kou's Warring States: The Fractured Earth Kingdoms

The Hundred Year War has ended and the world had a chance for peace, but it did not take it. When it came time for generals and rebels to hand back the piece of the world they had defended for a century, they said no. Whether for greed or anger or fear or any other muse that might inspire them, it doesn't matter. Their reasons are their own, their actions changed history.

June's stuck on a humid, malodorous job and muses about the antebellum world and her place in it to pass the time.

Everyone knows the shadowbenders don't really exist. Everyone. And anyone who entertains such fanciful thoughts knows better than to ever voice them. No, they can't exist and if they did then it'd be best to just pretend they didn't. In fact, I wouldn't click that link if I were you. You don't want their eyes on you. If they existed. Which, of course, they don't.