<div style="text-align: justify;">For Hana, most of this violent encounter had been spent standing between a metal wall and a metal bender. The hands covering her ears blocked out the snide comments and splashing sounds, but only served to dull the maniacal laughter and the crashes of the rocks. Hana was afraid. There were so many splinters in the air, and the stupid ghost had charged at the earthbender despite his injuries. An earthbender, a real live earthbender. He moved like Nitesh, steadily and with short, sharp movements. It was fascinating to watch, she found, and she poked her head around Nitesh's shoulder to get a better look. The blood, rapidly fired and formed by the two men, just never quite seemed to get to him the way it should. And then there wasn't any more time to wonder about bloodbending before a boulder smashed into Nitesh, who smashed into Hana, who smashed her head into the metal wall.<br/><br/>Hana groaned as her vision returned, blinking away the red dots and getting to her feet with a hand pressed against the wall. Nitesh, she observed with relief, seemed fine. The earthbender, she noticed, did not. She barely heard a word of what he was saying. <span style="color: #00FFFF">"Tried to kill, should die!"</span> She hissed in a voice dripping with malice, as she took a shaking step forward, fingertips already glowing.</div>