Kya had arrived at the Temple about half an hour later. The rain had finally stopped and she had managed to catch a ferry to the island. An Acolyte had greeted her at the docks and had instructed her to wait there while he went to get Tenzin. As if she couldn't be allowed onto the island without her brother's expressed permission.

She dropped down onto the edge of the dock, her feet hanging off and almost skimming the water. She could see fish swimming below and she watched them for a bit, losing herself in thought.

"Kya!" She turned around to see Tenzin rushing towards her, concern etched on his face, "Where have you been? Mom arrived yesterday morning with her things and yours. She said you'd be right behind her!"

"Calm down, dad, I'm fine," Kya teased, breaking out of her reverie and reaching down to take off her shoes.

"You could have sent a message," Tenzin fumed.

"I figured you'd be fine," Kya replied, sinking back into her carefree demeanor that she generally preferred now that she was somewhere she felt vaguely comfortable. She pushed herself further towards the edge of the docks and skimmed her toes in the water, watching the fish flee as she disturbed their peace.

Tenzin just gaped, open mouthed at his sister for a moment before turning around and practically stomping back towards the temple. Sighing at he brother's behavior, Kya swung her feet up onto the docks and followed him.

Acolytes and airbenders were beginning to wander around the temple, doing whatever it was that acolytes and airbenders did this early in the morning. Most of them paying no attention to Kya, but cheerfully smiling and waving at Tenzin, who was too wrapped up in his own annoyance to notice them.

"So, same room as always and all that?" Kya said as she followed behind him towards the female living quarters. Tenzin nodded and Kya expressed that she was sure she could manage to find it herself.

"Try not to disappear again before breakfast," Tenzin said tersely as he turned to walk away.

"I will absolutely try my best," she replied with a smirk as she made her way towards her room to take a well deserved nap before she had to get up and face everyone at breakfast.

"So where did you get off to last night?" Katara asked her daughter as soon as she sat down beside the table. Everyone immediately stopped their conversations and turned expectantly towards Kya.

"Just around. Nowhere special," she replied, piling food onto her plate and avoiding eye contact. No one here really needed to know she'd spent most of the night in a jail cell.

"Yeah, I wouldn't call the Republic City police station 'special' either."

Looking up, Kya say Lin standing in the doorway. Groaning inwardly, she cursed Lin's impeccable timing and need to get others into trouble.

"What did you do this time, Kya?" her mother asked, pinching the bridge of her nose.

Kya was suddenly surrounded with small, bouncing children asking question after question

"Did you get arrested?'

"Are you a criminal, Aunty Kya?"

"Did you kill someone?!"

"How'd you escape?"

One by one, they managed to settle down when they saw that she was not going to answer them. Not that she had anything against answering them, personally, but the look that her brother was giving her from across the table told her that it was probably better that she didn't.

"Kids, maybe you should go get started on your chores," Pema said, beginning to push them out of the room. As soon as Rohan, Meelo, and Ikki were well out of hearing range, Tenzin began his tirade.

"You got arrested!? How is it that you are fifty-seven years old and still behave like more like a rebellious teenager than Jinora?!" He shouted, Jinora blushed at this comment and shot her aunt a apologetic look, "What did you do this time?! I swear, Kya, if you're back to stealing things, you're not welcome in this house!"

"For the hundredth time, Tenzin, you need to calm down. For an airbender, you sure are pretty angry," Kya said," I didn't steal anything, so chill."

Tenzin looked at Lin for confirmation.

"Well, that's true. She was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Nothing criminal, really," Lin assured him before she also gave the waterbender an apologetic look.

Tenzin calmed down a bit after the reassurances that his sister hadn't been involved in any real criminal activity in the twenty-four hours that she had been in Republic City. He was still glaring at her enough to drive her from the room, though. Grabbing an apple from the middle of the table, she made her way outside to get some peace.