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Placing a hand on the police officer’s chest, you dance around him and into your bedroom. You spare one, last, wistful gaze at the room you didn’t even get the chance to use, then follow Itiqqa’s example and vault through the window.
Unlike the waterbender, you don’t simply glide down the side of the building, instead, you grip the windowsill, shift your weight, and, throwing your arms outward, you bend the brick facade under your feet and launch yourself to the other side of the street. You land on the building across from yours perpendicular to the ground, its poured surface rising to meet and wrap around your bare feet. Pushing the concrete back into place, sans two small platforms to kick off of, you use earthbending to help propel you into a flip that takes you all the way to the building’s roof.
From there, you take a moment to look up and down the street for any sign of Itiqqa. The Water Tribe girl is well and truly gone, but you can see a few police officers and purple-clad White Lotus heading in the direction you figure she went. However, the cop in your apartment shouts down to the assembled officers on the street, so you start running across the roof.
The building next to the one you’re on, separated by an alleyway, is several stories shorter, so you form this one’s cement around your hand, slide down the building, and leap to the next roof, landing in a roll. Not breaking the momentum, you sprint to the edge of the building and launch yourself off with a pillar pulled up from its side, this time landing on the next building in a low crouch. You chance taking a look over the side of the building and into the street, immediately regretting that decision when a stream of water nearly hits you in the face, you and have to shift away from it as it turns into a grasping tendril.
Two more earthbending-assisted leaps take you to the side of a building that you smoothly slide down, a platform for your feet and one hand supporting you on your descent. You roll your hands into the two platforms to create an imitation of the Earth Monarch’s secret police’s rock gloves. You wish that you knew how to form the Dai Li’s rock shoes to allow you to seamlessly glide across the ground, but your first earthbending teacher was sent away before you could get that far. Still, you were and are super proud of the fact that you’re able to use the rock gloves.
One of the two Waterbending Police Officers pursuing you glides onto the street behind you, gathering the dampness on top of the cobbled streets and freezing it to whip towards you. You take back off running, ducking into another alley and swinging yourself over a six foot high wall that separates it from a small restaurant’s back yard.
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