"Nalina wait up!" The young monk with a light blue arrow on his head shouted at his friend who ran ahead of him.
"Well hurry up Aang!" Nalina laughed, her different colored eyes shining with affection.
"You're so fast, how do you do it?" Aang gasped for breath as he finally caught up with her.
"I use the wind to give me a boost." Nalina smiled at her best friend.
"Aang, come play with us!" Another monk called to Aang.
Aang looked at Nalina who said, "You don't need to ask me for permission."
"I know but still." Aang shrugged.
"Go on, you need other friends." Nalina nudged her friend with the wind, her right gray eye shimmering.
"So do you." Aang playfully glared but said it with a serious voice.
"I'll go play with Sky." Nalina shrugged.
"I meant other people." Aang smiled.
"I'll be fine." Nalina gave him a hug and walked away, her left blue eye watering with tears.
Aang sighed and went to play with his fellow monks. Nalina walked through her home, the Southern Air Temple. She heard all the whispers that weren't meant to follow her ears, but she did anyway.
"I can't believe that she has to live here!" One woman with long ivory hair whispered to her friend next to her.
"It's one thing to nurse others to health, but to let someone like her actually living? It shouldn't be allowed." The other one with short onyx hair gossiped back.
Nalina closed her eyes and ran away from the gossiping women to the open area where the sky bison were flying.
"Sky, yip yip!" Nalina called out to the flying bison and jumped off the cliff to fall for a couple feet and landed on top of her animal companion.
Her brown bison gave a groan as they flew away.
"Hey Sky." Nalina patted Sky's white arrow.
Sky only gave another groan and they flew off through the clouds.
It was maybe only a couple of hours when Nalina and Sky were joined by Aang and his sky bison.
"Aang?" Nalina asked, turning her to the side when she noticed his down face.
"I'm the Avatar." He just stated bluntly.
