The elements has always come easy to Korra. She was told that even as a baby she had perfect balance. She could play outside in the frigid air for hours without substantial clothing and not suffer at all because of her affinity to fire and neither rain not sleet nor hail bothered the child as the water element kept her from being eternally soaked , although this trait had become increasingly common among the southern water tribe as Northern Water masters had integrated with the intent of both finding suitable and subservient wives and aiding their cousins in building the tall firm ice structures indicative of the northern architects. Korra's own mother was a water bender, although a fairly poor one at that. She could preform the usual tasks of defrosting ice for the soup pot and stirring said soup pot, but was without a particularly adept knowledge of healing skills and very little knowledge of combat. Even one so weak and feminine as her mother could do such little things, even her mother could brave the damp and frozen, yet Korra was helpless in her state. She would not air bend with her fingers permanently stuck in rigid half-fists and when the sky turned dark fear crept into her heart.