Tonraq was sitting in his living room, listening to a pro-bending match. He and his wife had tried to keep a semblance of things being normal, they liked to pretend that their daughter was going to come in at any minute for her weekly visit and excitedly blabber about what she had mastered that week while Senna fussed over her and Tornaq got the room ready for his family to listen to this week's matches. It was the one time they got to spend with their daughter since she had been taken to train at the age of four, and it had always been the highlight of their week. Now all they had was a sad longing as they tried to pretend it was all the same.

Senna was washing up after dinner in the kitchen, her low humming drifting through their small house. Tonraq turned the radio down a bit lower to hear her. It was a small comfort. He could pretend she was humming to Korra as she slowly began to calm down and settle for the night, but he kept the radio on still. Because this was a match Korra had been waiting to hear about for a really long time.

He hoped she got to at least listen to it, from her first and only letter, it didn't sound like she was getting a lot of free time at Airbender Island. He let his thoughts drift to his headstrong daughter. He missed her more than he thought he would. One would think that after years of seeing your daughter for only a day a week, her going away entirely wouldn't be that bad. But it was.

"Could this girl be…"

Tornaq's eyes flew opened as he registered what he just heard. He cranked the volume up to full blast. He about had a heart attack when the announcer confirmed that his daughter, the Avatar, was playing in a pro-bending match.

Senna was beside him all of a sudden, her face matching his in disbelief. She gripped his arm tightly as the announcer said that the Avatar was going to be allowed to compete. Tornaq was pleased for his daughter. She had wanted this since she had heard her first game on the radio when she was still so young. But he was also nervous. What if his daughter didn't succeed? He found himself afraid that his daughter was going to be hurt. Not physically of course, she could handle herself there, but her pride was something else entirely.

His fears were almost realized. He thought his arm would fall off as Senna dug her nails into his arm as Korra was knocked off the platform for the first time. His heart sank.

The next round started. He was gripping his wife's hand now as tightly as she was gripping her arm. They almost had a heart attack when they heard "The water is calling her name…"

But then, apparently, she fought back. Her parents cheered as their daughter helped win the match and consequently the game. The announcer started wrapping his commentary, talking about Korra, and how she had given them a real scare and wondering how long she would join the Fire Ferrets.

But her parents hardly heard him. Tornaq had picked up his wife and twirled her around the room. They laughed for the first time in weeks.

Later that week they would receive a message from Korra. Even in writing they could hear her babbling away like the excitable little four-year old she had once been. They pinned that message to their wall above their radio and would proudly point to it while they boasted that their daughter, the Avatar, had become a top-notch pro-bender to anyone who ventured a foot into their house.

They sent her a message back:

We are so proud of you. We heard your match on the radio and you did brilliantly. We will never miss a match. We love you so much.