Tahno's PoV:

My eyes are blurry when they first open and I cannot quite take in my surroundings at first. I can tell that I am not in my apartment anymore. I only have faint memories of last night. The men attacking me, Korra's face, her simple conversation with me, and that is all I can remember.

And now my eyes are clear and I look around the room I am in. It is small and neat with wooden antiques scattered around the place. There is a small dresser with a simple image of a turtle duck sitting on top.

I look down at my bandaged hands and exhale. I can still smell the blood as it tries to seep through the gauze. Who am I?

The door opens and Korra slowly walks in towards me. My heart is beating so fast that I feel that I may faint but I hang on. Korra sits down on the end of the bed and chuckles.

"Good to see you're up, you had us so worried. It's past lunch. I've been out all day healing all the fire-benders but I'm finished now."

I sit up and look foggily at her, "Hello Korra."

That was all I could think to say and that was all I needed to say. She smiled and rested her hand on my leg. There was an awkward silence.

"What am I doing here?" I asked although once I said it I felt rather pushy. Her smile sunk into a deep frown and she tilted her head.

"Well, you were injured, so I couldn't just leave you in your apartment to just be hurt more. So I brought you to Air Temple Island. Any other questions?"

Korra pushed her brown hair out of her face as she waited for my response. I hesitated before blurting out, "Who am I?"

Korra's eyebrows creased, "You're Tahno. Have you lost your memory?"

I shake my head, "I haven't lost my memory and I know my name. But who exactly is Tahno. Who am I?"

Korra looks up and smiles, "That's what we have to find out!" And now I am entirely confused. She claims that we can 'find me' but I doubt that. I doubt everything she says now. And I don't even know why I am here, living. But even though Korra and I aren't…attached to each other in any form, I trust her.

I'm in the air, looking out over the city, and I can't help but feel scared. I've never been this high up and I don't really know how to sit on this sky bison. Korra's holding me still though and I trust her. I trust her.

When I look down, I feel sick. We are so high up. But the city looks very beautiful from birds-eye view and the Yue Bay glimmer so gently that it takes me a while to remember what I am looking at. This is not what the city usually looks like. I know that it's very pretty and many people are happy. But I also know that down there, people are suffering like I was and people are struggling and getting abused each day and that is what truly made me sick whenever I looked down.

"So Tahno, let's start with some simple questions," Korra claps her hands together and looks me in the eye. Simple questions, easy enough I suppose.

"What is your dream?"

I thought they were supposed to be simple questions! "To be the best pro-bender in the world and for a new stadium to open. To sustain a job and to have a happy life."

Korra nods, "You know Bolin is working on trying to re-open the stadium with other pro-benders. Okay, until your dream is achieved, what job would you like?"

I shake my head in anger. I don't know the answer to that. My entire life has been pro-bending and then you ask me to pick another profession! "Umm, don't they have a hydraulic plant down in the centre of the city? I could work there."

Okay, that would pay well and it was an improvement. I look down again, and I remember all of the pain and suffering I went through and I feel safe away from the world and its terror and war. War is such a simple word to describe the most intricate interconnections of strong negative emotions. War is everywhere, even in me. I can feel my heart and soul fighting together.

"And finally, what did you think about yourself before?" Korra's voice interrupts my thoughts.

That was one question I could easily answer, "I hated myself. I mean there were parts of me that I liked, but I hated the fact that I was living it up and people were suffering. And how I treated some people like dirt. After living in my apartment for so long, injured and drunk, I learnt how horrible the world is. The rich only see what they want, and what they want is beauty. Unfortunately that's not what I see now. And that's why I hated myself."

Korra just sat in silence. I knew my words were bold and harsh and probably impulsive but I meant every one of them. Korra landed the sky bison and helped me off.

"So who are you Tahno?" She asked with a small smile.

"I still don't know. I know more, but I'm afraid of the truth," I looked down at my hands and started lightly crying. Korra took my hands in hers.

"You're Tahno, you know so much more about another part of the world, the dark part. You're Tahno, and I think you're pretty amazing."

I look at the brickwork on the floor and study an ant walking in and out of crevices and it reminds me of how I used to be. Alone. But I feel Korra's warm hands holding mine and know that I'm not alone anymore. But my heart, or what I had in place of one, has already been ripped into shreds and scattered over the world which I will never, and don't want to recover.

"If you need me, you know where to find me. And Tahno, I'm your friend now. I want to be."

I am afraid of myself still. But I am no longer afraid of friendship.