"Mom, I'm scared."
"Go find your dad, sweetie. I'll handle this."
The little water tribe girl fled from the tent, and Yon Rha continued his business.
"Now tell me, who is it? Who's the waterbender?"
"There are no waterbenders here. The Fire Nation took them all away a long time ago."
"You're lying. My source says that there's one waterbender left in the Southern Water Tribe. We're not leaving until we find the waterbender."
"If I tell you, do you promise to leave the rest of the village alone?"
He nodded his head in verification. He'd been questioning the young woman for several minutes.
"It's me. Take me as your prisoner."
"I'm afraid I'm not taking prisoners today."
Yon Rha was about to end it when he noticed the small bump on the woman's abdomen, barely visible through the thick skin dress she wore. As evil as he was, it was still inhuman to murder a child, born or not. With his change of mind he bound her hands and amidst the chaos brought her to the ship. He was sure to completly scorch the tent so as everyone assumed the worst. He locked the woman in the ship's hold, along with the several Earth Kingdom prisoners. As they sailed away, he looked back to see the child from before running to the burnt tent along with a man and young boy. The last thing he heard before sailing out of earshot was an elongated "KYA!"
Within days they reached their base on Whale Tail Island, where the prisoners were transferred to a more permanent holding block. And after a few days, Yon Rha was shocked to realize how aware he was of a certain captured maiden. Over the months he'd notice little things. How she laughed with the other women in her block. How her oceanic eyes smiled with every word she said. How she glowed, even when she would lower her growing self to her hard cot at night. The way she would always make the best out of all current situations. And most importantly, the look she reserved only for him, a look that was colder than the frozen tundra he had taken her from. He was slowly falling in love with her, yet to her he was the most steel hearted villain in the Fire Nation. He had to make it up to her. Though knowing the guards wouldn't be pleased, he decorated her cell with the furs and skins he remembered from her home in the South Pole. He replaced her old cot with a comfortable mattress. And when she returned from the prison cafeteria, she cried at the familiar sights of home. Yon Rha stepped out of the shadows to confront her about his feelings, but was shocked by her response.
"You love me? You LOVE me! I'm a married woman with soon to be three children! Why would I choose the man who captured me; took me away from my family,my home, my entire life; over my husband and family? If you really loved me, you would return me to THEM, not lock me in a cage designed to make me homesick. You are nothing but foul Fire Nation scum." With that, Kya laid on the new bed to sob. Yon Rha was shattered by her piercing words. That was the second he locked up his heart, vowing to never love again. Kya gave birth to a daughter three weeks later. With the baby in the temporary care of a female guard, and the slightest pang of emotion still in his black soul, he made Kya's death quick and painless. Later that month, he and the infant boarded a small ship to the Northern Water Tribe. There he brought the tiny girl to the spirit oasis. He summoned, then handed her over to, the spirit Koh, who took the last remaining evidence of his life that could have been to another corner of the Earth through the spirit portal in which he arrived. A now hardset and cold Yon Rha re-boarded his ship and started back towards his officers on Whale Tail Island.