Argent looked from the recovering Coron to the placid looking Gredeer with a miffed look before continuing, "If you're both done I would like to continue without interruptions." He turned to continue his explanation to Coron, "Now then, I can't send you back, only you can do that for yourself or your guide could. Your guide is the first thing you meet and that was me and I'm not as strong in that as a spirit so you're on your own until you learn how to send yourself back." Gredeer rolled her eyes at Argent's unneeded complexity and drifted off back into the tree behind her.
Oblivious to this Argent went on, "The really unfortunate part is that to go to the spirit world you have to want to. My guess is the only thing that stopped your spirit from being ripped apart on the way here was the avatar spirit. It must be dormant right now because if it wasn't you would have appeared as an orb of light then got your human form back. Instead you had that awkward entrance."
Coron's mind had been burning with a question for a while now and he took advantage of Argent's slight pause to interject, "Why would my government want me dea-in this state?"
Argent didn't see this as an interruption and his face took on a sad look as he answered Coron's question, "This is going t be your last history lesson. If what I've learned is correct, you being sent to the spirit world wasn't even ordered by your government. It was probably part of some plan that was laid by the shadow organization known as Fallen Fire. They're the only group with the audacity to try and pull this off. They're primarily based in the Fire Nation and could be part of a larger group for all I know. What I do know is that the organization was formed almost 200 years ago, shortly after Fire Lord Ozai fell. You wouldn't have been taught this in school, but right after the invasion on the day of 'black sun', most of the royal family was hunted down and eradicated. The few who survived the purge came together and formed the core of Fallen Fire. They have sway almost everywhere, even in the Water Tribes, and Earth Kingdoms, though it is limited abroad.
"They were small for awhile but their membership started to grow after the Fire Nation had heavy penalties laid on it after the war, even though the populous had been against the monarchy near the end. They had a population limit set on them so they wouldn't have the man power needed to start another war, severe fines for the same reason, and a new government put onto the throne to push a more peaceful view on the populous.
"They've been lazy for awhile now but I've started to see evidence that they've set a large plan into motion. Out of all the smaller ones that have popped up over the past century, they're the only ones I'm keeping tabs on because they really see a bigger picture." A quizzical look from Coron forced him to give another explanation, "Most shadow organizations popped up in the past 75 to 100 years. Shadow organizations started to come about as more fanatically minded people realized that violence could get them what they wanted. Any newer ones don't have enough clout to be any threat to anyone. Fallen Fire probably infiltrated Ba-Sing-Se's health ministry and you had the misfortune of having one of theirs sent to you, though why they would want bodies in that state I don't have a clue at all. It would just be a hollow shell."
Coron couldn't contain another question any longer which was lucky because Argent abated at that very moment, "How do you spy on Fallen Fire?"
This prompted Argent to give yet another explanation, "I use my communal animal. Every person has one and the avatars can use theirs to look onto the mortal plain from the spirit world. If we can find yours, you can use it to keep tabs on your body so you'll know where it is when you go back. I think we'll see if it's the shrew worm first." With that he motioned Coron to follow him and they walked to the root system Coron had seen when he was hanging from the tree branch. That seemed eons before this.
As they got closer Gredeer reappeared and guided them to a hole that Coron never would have seen on his own. They walked through the low tunnel deeper and deeper until Argent was crawling and Coron was hunched over so far he looked like a frog. The tunnel abruptly ended and when they walked out Coron saw open sky and plains that ran toward the horizons. He turned around and saw the tunnel they had just come as a little mound on the side of a hill with the roots nowhere in sight.
Coron got a slight case of vertigo for a second and asked more out of awe than curiosity, "Is this place ever normal?"
Argent answered with his second short answer, "What do you think?" while he rolled his eyes in annoyance.
AN: Thx for reading the revision. If the word revision isn't in the AN, it's not revised, so feel free to review and tell me all the mistakes, it saves me a lot of time!