Reiko was far from camp, in the woods, when she started to see him again. The Blue Spirit.
He was not so far away from their campsite.
"Wait!" She called. "I want to help you! I want to do something for you! You tried to save me!"
"Tried?" He stopped and turned to her. She could sense his anger. "You were captured again? These burns...a Firebender did this?"
"No...well yes, but it wasn't from fire." Reiko said. "It was the talismans they had. "I don't know how he had such knowledge to bind me."
"The Avatar." Blue Spirit spat the name. "He saved you when I couldn't."
"But...he's good." Reiko grasped his hands. "Just like you! Why can't..."
"That's enough!" He shouted. "Go! Go back to the Avatar! He has you now! Even you!"
His hands shook, and then he was gone, back in the wilds of the forest.
Reiko could sense there was no chance he would come back. No chance he'd attack them. At least not tonight.
So why did her heart feel so much pain?