The newest case was even more miserable than the pervious one. This time, the target was the dry docks of the fishermen, and the perpetrator tried to use blasting jelly to blow up the small building. Actually, there were so many explosives stacked in the middle of the main repair bay, that they could potentially blow up half of the harbour with ease.

It was late spring, the middle of the fishing season, so the destruction would be terrible, especially if it goes off during dawn, when the fishermen sail out. But it was middle morning already, and the barrels still sat there, just as how the would-be saboteur placed them.

Instructor Tamara didn't have to open the barrels to know why the blasting jelly didn't explode. The thick, dull smell and the small blackish pool around the explosives were obvious enough: the blasting jelly was still in its raw, unrefined state. Technically, it was completely harmless as it would need a special detonator to trigger the explosion. A normal wick and fire won't do it.

It was an amateurish sabotage attempt by all means, but for a place like Kyoshi Island, even such a poor event was a terrible disaster. During the past five weeks, four sabotage attempts had been made. All of them targeted important places: the shipyard, the watchtower that overlooked the nearby seas, the island's only blacksmith workshop and now the dry docks. Fortunately, these attempts did very little actual damage, but it was their nature that was mostly disturbing.

They were preparing an invasion. With all the experience she got during her fifty-nine years long lifetime, she could feel it in her bones.

So far, Kyoshi Island managed to stay neutral in the war between the Earth Kingdom and the Fire Nation, but it seemed that their luck is running out. And to make things worse, the island's defence force currently only compromised seven young girls and Tamara herself: the Kyoshi Warriors. Of course, there were other Kyoshi Warriors, but they were at another place, far away from here.

All in all, the situation in which Tamara found herself was rather troublesome. But it wasn't entirely lost. She knew that she could save the island.

She only needed to strike first.