Suki held her head in her hands. Li Na, still wearing the full Kyoshi regalia, looked down at the floor while Suki collected herself. It was bad enough to know that she had failed in protecting Zuko, but now.

"Are they okay?" Suki asked, her voice barely above a whisper.

"The princess was satisfied with their discipline. And they know it wasn't, that you weren't yourself." Li Na answered.

With a shake of her head, Suki let out a sigh and sat up.

Chihiro, her only ally outside of the palace, was gone. Katara had disappeared and Iroh was being kept from returning. Now Suki had her freedom and Sokka, but both could be taken away if she were poisoned again. The spring was coming to an end and the summer summit was approaching quickly.

"Suki, is really such a bad thing to allow Ozai to be executed?" Li Na questioned.

"It will destroy Zuko."

"I think it'd be more important to rescue the Fire Lord than worry about also saving his traitor father."

"Of course it is, but we were never the types to not go for it all." Suki stood and walked to her window. It wouldn't look right for her to keep everything shuttered if the rest of the palace was supposed to think she was still under their control.

"Suki, if I may." Li Na began as she walked a few steps behind Suki.

"Of course."

"Why are you so concerned about the Fire Lord anyway? Shouldn't you be getting our sisters out of here?"

Li Na's question was like being doused by cold water. Suki remembered Sokka's face when he told her that he had chosen her instead of freeing Toph.

"Zuko needs me."

"Suki, we need you. You're our leader and our sisters are in grave danger staying here. Why don't we leave, collect the rest of our family, and rally our allies?"

"I can't leave Zuko here!" Suki seethed, gripping the shutters tightly for a moment before throwing them open.

"We are a family, and we will always look after each other. But there is no one for Zuko." Suki continued, calming her tumultuous mind and she braced herself against the windowsill.

"Sokka is his blood brother." Li Na countered.

"And the princess knows that, so she's watching him very closely. She doesn't know about," Suki drifted. It wasn't embarrassment that kept her from continuing - the other Kyoshi Warriors understood the varied ways relationships formed - but it was out of her own sense of shame and regret.

The last time they had been together, before they traveled to Hira'a, they had fought viciously. They were keeping secrets from each other, which was something they had promised not to do. Zuko had disappeared under false pretense and now she was unable to get to him.

She didn't know if she still deserved the place she held in his life.

"I can get to Zuko. I can get him out of this daze." Suki said.

Li Na sighed but put a hand on Suki's shoulder.

"So what do we do?" Li Na asked.

Suki rubbed her face and pulled down her cheeks as she looked out into the garden outside of her room.

"What are the rumours around Katara's disappearance?" She asked.

"A neighbor of the Hirasawa's claims that he saw a flower seller leave their manor, which is odd since they have their own garden." Li Na answered.

"And then went where?"

"No one knows. Still, she somehow slipped out of the city before the gates were closed. There was a family camped outside that said a pair of sisters were leaving the city and heading to the docks, but that's all."

"Sisters? Who in the city…" Suki froze and her gaze met that of a fox perched on a low wall running along the edge of the garden. It twitched an ear and stretched its body in an arch. With a lazy flick, the fox's tail swished in the air. And split into thirds.

As the fox sat back on its haunches, the three tails continued to swish independently of each other.

"She left with Riku." Suki stated.

"That's not, ideal." Li Na replied.

"Besides the possibility of her murderous tendencies resurfacing, I actually think it's perfect. She stood against us pretty well."

Li Na made a noise and Suki laughed. Somehow perturbed by the noise, the fox on the wall stood up and leapt off the wall, disappearing on the other side.

"Get a message out to Ty Lee. Have a pair of Warriors take it, whomever wants to leave but won't say so. Ty Lee will know how to contact Chihiro but, more importantly, she'll know how to find Riku." Suki said.

"What should the message be?"

"Call in the reinforcements. And get Katara back here."