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It's set just after the finale of Book 3, and involves a twelve-year-old girl reading a newspaper article about the events of said finale while waiting for the school bus. Details about the viewpoint character emerge throughout the narrative.

 

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* [[Big Eater]]: Hakini [[Justified Trope|is a growing girl]]{{spoiler|—possibly quite dramatically so, if [[Statuesque Stunner|her birth mother]]'s genes leave their mark—}}who's [[Huge Schoolgirl|already big for her age]], and the "increasingly ravenous appetite" that she has to show for it gets a brief mention.

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: While Hakini is entirely unaware of the fact, it becomes increasingly clear to the reader that she's {{spoiler|the biological daughter of the [[Arc Villain]] [[Unholy Matrimony|and]] [[The Brute]]}}.

* [[No Infantile Amnesia]]: [[Downplayed]]. Hakini was born in the [[Seasonal Baggage|summer]], but her earliest memory is of "bone-crushing cold." {{spoiler|Considering her age, she'd have been conceived shortly before the Red Lotus were incarcerated and born in [[Tailor-Made Prison|P'Li's cell]].}}

* [[Patchwork Kids]]: Averted; although something about {{spoiler|Zaheer's mug shot}} looks vaguely familiar to her ([[Word of God]] is that it's {{spoiler|the [[Villainous Cheekbones|cheekbones]]}}), she's implied to mainly just have a [[Strong Family Resemblance]] to {{spoiler|P'Li}}.

* [[Seasonal Baggage]]: A contrast is drawn between Hakini being a firebender born in summer and her distant memories of cold.

* [[Slice of Life]]: Concerns a character reading a newspaper while waiting for the bus.