It was Korra's one vacation from training per year, but she couldn't have fun. It was her birthday, she should have been having a great time, with prospects of her favorite seaweed noodles and blubbered seal jerky dinner looming in the distance, but she just couldn't be happy. She couldn't get what her mother had told her earlier that day out of her head.

Korra had left the White Lotus training complex for a week to celebrate her 14th birthday with her family, which she had been exited about for weeks, but her excitement turned to dread when on the morning of her birthday, Senna sat next to her and told her the truth about her.

"It's time that you knew that Tonraq is not your father" she said.

"What?" Korra asked "Did you cheat on Dad or something?"

"Oh no, I would never do that! You were just conceived before I met him" she replied, searching through a box she had taken out from under her bed.

"Before I married Tonraq, I was in a relationship with a young man named Noatak, a traveler from the Northern tribe." She handed Korra a picture from the box.

"Wow, he's pretty attractive. And he has the same hairstyle as me!"

"Yea, I always found it funny that you prefer to have your hair like that. Anyway, he was great, but he wanted to elope with me and travel around the earth kingdom, while I just wanted to stay here and have children. He must have had a dark family past, since the prospect of children made him shudder."

"But you say he's my father?" Korra wondered.

"Well we were young and careless. I was only 18 and wasn't thinking of contraception. The night before he left me forever, he gave me the night of my life. Not even Tonraq has made me feel that good"

"Okay mom, you don't need to go into that much detail"

"After he left me, I got together with Tonraq and when you were born, he just assumed that you were his baby, but I knew that you're actually Noatak's daughter"

"Why are you telling me this now?" Korra said

"Because I hate keeping secrets!" Senna replied. "You know that! I couldn't even keep the fact that I broke the antique fishing spear from your father...well not your father but... you get the point"

So that evening, Korra couldn't get what she just learned off her mind. She kicked at the snow on the edge of her favorite staring cliff, thinking of how this would change her life forever. Of course in a matter of weeks, she had all but forgotten about Noatak.

"Lieutenant, get me everything you can find about the avatar" Amon commanded. "I need to know what I'm going up against."

"Well there's the interview she gave earlier today, and this celebrity magazine article I found" the lieutenant replied. Amon snatched the magazine from his hands.

"This tells me nothing! All it says is her heritage!" he exclaimed. "Hmm... apparently her mother's name is Senna. Why does that seem so familiar?"

"I don't know sir, but if you need more info about the avatar, I can send our best men to spy on her"

"No, I'll do it myself, and what's the best way to get information out of a 17 year old girl?"

"By stalking her?"

"No" Amon said. "By starting a relationship with her." The lieutenant looked puzzled.

"But Amon, you can't just approach her, she'll freak out. I'd be scared if a strange masked man approached me on the street asking for a date." he said

"I won't wear the mask" Amon replied.

"Sir, not to be rude, but your face is horribly disfigured."

Amon chuckled. "People have told me I have quite a talent with makeup." He disappeared into the back room, only to emerge 20 minutes later looking like a perfectly normal young man.

"A water tribe man! of course! appeal to her longing for home" the lieutenant exclaimed. Amon hadn't actually been thinking of that, he was just going out in his normal form, unburdened by masks or scars.

"Escort me out the back. I can't have any of the equalists spotting me like this."

"Why?" the lieutenant asked. "Are you afraid they'll think a waterbender snuck into the complex?"

"No, but some of the ladies might recognize me" he said

"Sir?" "What do you think I'm doing on those Saturday nights when I disappear into my office for hours on end? I like to give my loyal followers a treat every once and a while, but I don't want any of them to think they're getting seconds tonight."