A/N: Helluuu! Another chapter here! I tried to give her some more dimension in this chapter.

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The three of us was still fighting our way through the mountains. All of us exhausted, both physically and mentally. I knew I didn't have much more in me, though I knew I had to be strong for Hak and Princess Yona. My giving up now wouldn't help anyone.

I looked up to see Yona falling, I sprinted forward and caught her before she hit the ground.

"Yona!" I exclaimed. I mentally slapped myself. "Princess Yona!" I corrected myself.

We had known each other for so long and she was like a little sister for me. Sometimes when I'm not careful my language slip. Though, I guess she wasn't much of a princess anymore… At least not officially. Even if in my mind she'd always be the princess.

"Shall we rest for a while?" Hak asked.

Hak helped her to lean against a tree and we rested in silence.

I began to think back to a winter day with Princess Yona, Lord Soo-Won and Hak. After a lot of playing in the snow we had all gotten sick, my mother visited as she took a break from her work doing laundry. Even Lord Soo-Won and Hak's guardians had visited. Princess Yona was upset that her father didn't show but he made it up by trying to cook. Thinking back on it it was actually very sweet. The world truly lost a compassionate human being. He certainly didn't deserve his fate. Hopefully he is looking down on us with his Queen.

"You should eat something. From here I don't know if we'll be able to secure food," Hak told us.

Hak and I looked at each other meaningly, she was growing weaker. She had held on incredibly long for someone in her position. If I had been her, a princess being sheltered for her entire life then everything falling to pieces, I can't guarantee I would have lasted this long. Hak and I was raised under different circumstances and it wasn't our father who died, even if our life also changed and fell to pieces we were more prepared for it that Princess Yona was.

Suddenly I realized... My mother… Everything had happened so fast, I was so focused on saving and helping Princess Yona that I didn't have time to think of my mother. She must be so worried. What if they killed her? As a punishment because I stood against them? What if I had just caused my mothers' death?

I felt my heart pounding in my chest and my eyes starting to water. I took a deep breath and stood up from my sitting position, turning away from Hak. I didn't want him to see me like this.

I'm a terrible daughter, how could I not think of my mother before now?! I wanted to do something, make sure she was okay! I need to go back!

I felt a hand on my shoulder.

"What is it?" Hak asked, he looked almost apathetic, but I guessed he needed to do that to keep himself together.

"My mother…" Was all I managed to get out.

Hak looked as if the thought just struck him.

"I need to do something, what if they hurt her for being my mother?" I whispered desperately. Hak carefully caressed my cheek comfortingly.

"There is nothing you can do, even if you go there you'd be killed on the spot. When we reach the Wind Tribe we can ask Mundok if he can find something out. Until then there's nothing any of us can do," Hak reasoned. I knew he was right but I don't know if I was able to just leave it. I wanted to risk it, if there was even a small chance that I could do something, anything for my mother, wasn't it worth it?

"I know what you're thinking but if you turn back now, I'll have to go after you and you'll put all of us at risk." Hak said when he saw the look in my eyes. "I will go after you, Ane. I don't want to do this without you, and Yona needs you."

I sighed as a sign that I gave up.

"Okay, I'll wait until we meet Mundok," I assured him.

Sometime later on the journey I was sitting next to PrincessYona as she was sleeping while Hak was getting water. She woke up in a stir and looked around.

"Princess Yona?" I asked and touched her hand with mine. Suddenly she burst out crying and I immediately put my arms around her in an embrace. She put her arms around me and held me hard as she continued to cry.

I didn't know what to say? What could I say? To make things better? I doubt there was anything anyone could say to make everything okay… So I just held her, trying my best to act like the rock she seemed to need at the moment.

I noted that Hak came back with the water but I focused on Yona. She was the one that needed me now, she was like my little sister. I wanted to do what I could to help her even if it wasn't much.

We later continued on our journey to the Wind Tribe and on our way we met troubles like a snake nest, where Hak got bitten and leaches that briefly stuck to Princess Yona and so on. It was a very stressful situation when you combine it to everything that had already happened.

"Where are we headed?" Yona asked as we marched through what felt like an endless amount of trees.

"Probably the only place we can count on… Capital Fuuga, my hometown," Hak answered.

"I've never been to your hometown," I responded mindlessly. Realizing that I had said it out loud blushed slightly. Of course I hadn't been there! Everybody new that, how foolish to even state it.

I could sense a smile on Hak's face though he didn't say anything.

"Why would you have even been there?" Princess Yona asked.

"Well, there would be no real reason for me to go…" I mumbled ashamed. Why had I let that slip? Stupid, stupid, stupid…