This was not a happy time to grow up. Especially for a girl like Aiza. At seventeen she had never known what a time of peace was like. What would her life had been like if she hadn't been fighting to survive her entire life. She was all alone in her little hidden home, keeping herself in the shadows and making sure the people in the area stayed as safe as they could be. But now was the time to step forward and fight. Aiza had heard people talking about how the White Lotus was recruiting people today. It was her chance to fight as a part of something. The only problem was people, she might be a part of squad or something like that, and she didn't play well with others. Mostly because the only person she could ever rely on growing up was herself. But that shouldn't stop her from helping. She didn't want the next generation to grow up like she had. 

After tucking her coin purse into her pants, Aiza crawled out of her little home and started on her way to the recruitment office. A fake confident grin was plastered to her face, and she walked as if she owned the place. Even if she really didn't, she could act like she knew what she doing. The walk was going to take her a little while, the recruitment office was a bit far from her home, and she didn't have a schmancy car, or a none schmancy car for that matter. It took even longer cause she got distracted by a couple of benders in a mock battle.

Finally, Aiza made it to the office and walked inside confidently, picking a random direction, she started going to the right. "Recruitment is left." The man at the front said.

Aiza turned on her heels and started going left. "I knew that." She said with a stupid grin.

It was pretty straightforward after that and she soon found her path blocked by a guy at a table. She eyed the guy warily, who welcomed her and asked if she was here to sign up. "Uh, duh, why else would I be here?" She said with a shrug.

The guy just shook his head and handed her a clipboard. She wrote her name down on the 12 spot in her usual, barely readable, chicken scratch and gave the clipboard back. The guy gave her a vest and told her to go on through. Aiza grumbled as she put on the vest and walked into the other room. She stopped by the entrance to watch a pair of Firebenders who were going at it in an arena like area. She scoffed at their movements though. They looked so ridged and stiff, nothing like her own fighting style. But then again, Aiza-fu could only be explained as a sporadic mess, a tough mess to predict and beat, but still a mess. 

Aiza walked over to where two other people were, one looked like they were in charge, the other didn't. She addressed the one who looked like they were in charge. "You know those two suck right?" She said completely seriously, to which she got no reply. With a shrug she went over to the other guy. She nodded her head upward, "Sup. You here for the cookoff? Whichever one of them loses gets roasted and we get to eat them." She said out of nowhere. Ah, there was the crazy in her family coming out. She didn't know WHY she said that, she just felt like she should. The scary part was, her fire wasn't even blue yet. Apparently you could tell when a woman in her family was really starting to lose it when their fire turned blue. Which terrified her because it meant she could get even worse than she already was.