After they had finished their tea and the cakes, Zhao and Safara left the tea house, paying royal. ''I'll see you next month again Miss'' the admiral said and Safara went to the carriage and sat down already. Her father joined her shortly after and they went home. The journey home was quiet and Safara simply knew she was in trouble by the look on her fathers face. She knew she could even be in danger, the last time she spoke her mind, it almost got to a akni-kai but it was her mother that stopped her father by telling him she was only a kid. She had been eight years old that time... Now she was sixteen and she knew that he didn't see her as a kid anymore. He had wanted her to join the soldiers training two years ago and on her first day, in her first try-out fight, he had placed her against one of the strongest students that had been there already for two years. He had won easily and Safara was told every night to train until midnight and if she took a break, a hour extra was added to that.

Her mother had not been able to stop her father from his way of raising his daughter. But when she died five months ago, her father had said that if she would let one tear fall after the funeral, he would send her to a boarding school at the other side of the nation. Life had changed a lot, she wasn't allowed to go out with her classmates and three weeks after the funeral she was told that she didn't need school anymore. She would now constantly be at the academy for soldiers. Safara saw their house but when the carriage went left instead of just following the road she knew what was going to happen. ''Father?'' she asked. ''No Safara, you made me look like a fool.. You are going to pay with that'' he simply said. She closed her eyes and bowed her head. ''Yes Father'' she said.

Fifteen minutes later she said in the changing room of the arena where people fighted their akni-kai's or had their training. Safara knew she didn't had a training, she would fight her father. Well.. If he wanted that.. If he wanted to do the same as what Firelord Ozin had done with Prince Zuko, then she would fight back. Because their was a differance between her and prince Zuko which her father didn't want to understand: Prince Zuko was still having respect for his father and loved him. She didn't love or respect her father anymore, not anymore since her twelfth. 

She went to the arena and fought with her father. But it wasn't long before she got knocked down and her father looked at her. ''You're a weakling and weakling's aren't worth living in the Fire nation'' he said. ''That isn't your call! It is the fire lord that can banish people from the firenation.. And you will never become anything else than a simple puppet in his game!'' Safara said and that was something she shouldn't have done. Admiral Zhao made a fire fist and slammed it against her left leg, making a huge burn and with that also making her leg and foot useless for her. Safara screamed it out and felt tears rolling over her cheeks. '' I do banish you from my household and my family'' her father said. 

Safara got carried away by two boys that where students and was brought to the nurses who then did everything to keep her leg useful but it didn't work, nothing worked. Safara's left leg would be lame for the rest of her life.