To see his face again, would condemn her forever of the past.
The glimmer of a necklace, his eyes, those words. They would repeat in her tortured mind. Waves of memories surged upon, tears stinging the back of her blue and tired eyes.
Silence.
Unbearable silence.
It cut through her skin, like the scars on the Avatar's body, numbing her senses of the rest of the world. The cold slicing wind tangled up her thoughts as they soared through the air, with no destination and no where to go. Feeling a slight stir in her arms, she barely had the energy to look down at the weakened savior of the world.
But when her crystal eyes saw nothing, nothing but the past flash before her eyes, she stared into the sky thinking of him.
"I'll save you from the pirates..."
Not even the faint whispers behind her could wake her up from this trance, as she remembered her mother's necklace dangling in front of her. But it wasn't that what made her remember it so much. It was those eyes, that scar, the very ones she wished to touch to just know.
And she finally did. She finally managed to say the words, 'help' to him. Because was that not her purpose in life?
Betrayal hurt her soul, as she remembered seeing him standing there with guilt all over his painful eyes.
As the Avatar awoke in her arms, and she remembered how fragile they were in this grown up world, she was unable to imagine what they were to do now. Stares and frowns from her friends and strangers did not help her, crashing down the reality on her tired shoulders.
Too bad, when she needed him most, he couldn't save her this time.