"W-what is happening?" Kyoshi whispered feeling dizzy, and faint. Trying to steady herself, she fell, onto her knees, and stayed put on the floor, unable to get up, letting her head fall and rest in the palms of her hands.

"Something must have happened to Korra while she was in the Avatar State!" Roku hissed, clutching at his abdomen and sides, letting out strangled gasps. He doubled over, and his body fell in a heap; he had fainted.

"This sensation is familiar, like when the mental fire nation princess struck you with lightning!" Kuruk choked. He started a painful coughing fit, and then he was completely out cold, as well.

"No, no, that can't be it…if that were the case, then my spirit would have been gone first, followed by Roku, Kyoshi, Kuruk, and so on and so forth. Furthermore, nothing has happened to Yangchen either. And, you're forgetting, Korra hasn't entered the Avatar State."

Another Air Nomad, a female, followed by a glowing figure draped in white materialized.

"Yue! Yangchen!" Aang exclaimed. "How are the other Avatar's faring?"

"Not, well, I'm afraid. Fire and water, the two element s that Korra had the deepest connection to. All water Avatars are unconscious, and most fire Avatars are in great pain, at least, the one who haven't fainted yet" When Yue reported this information to Aang, it seemed that she had aged years. Wrinkles that had never been there before seemed to appear.

Yangchen was no different. "The earth Avatars are doing only slightly better, migraines, sharp stomach pains, but they are conscious."

"And our fellow air Avatars?"

"They seem to all be in stable condition. None of them have so much as pins and needles in their feet."

"Something's not right. I will go check on Korra."

…

"It appears…that she has…she has…"

"Spit it out!" Kyoshi growled at him, lying on her back, moaning and groaning in immense pain.

"Amon took her bending. It's gone. Save for her airbending. That's why we haven't been affected." By 'we', he meant the Air Avatars.

"Preposterous! Only the Avatar can take away bending! None of the spirits could have given this masked menace the power to energybend!"

"He uses bloodbending to do it. He is a very, very powerful waterbender, Yakone's son."

It seemed that for that one moment, all the Spirits that had not already fainted fell silent at this new piece of information.

"He's a bender? And his whole cause is based upon a false sob story, a hidden identity, a lie!"

"I'm afraid so."

Kyoshi was uncharacteristically silent.

"None of this would've happened had you killed Yakone."

Aang's face contorted into an expression of rage. "I WILL NOT END A LIFE!"

Kyoshi looked just as furious. "Is that so? What about all the people who have just died in the equalist attacks? The soldiers, the innocent civilians! Or when all those people were bloodbent by that deranged councilman? What about the poor few who have taken their own lives after their bending was gone? And what about all the Avatars that might never recover? That is YOUR entire fault, you WILL take the blame!"

It seemed that the entire Spirit World was stunned into silence.

"I-I never thought of that."

"OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T! ALL OF YOU HAVE THIS IDEA THAT I'M SOME KIND OF CRUEL, BLODDTHIRSTY AVATAR! NOBODY LET ME NEAR YOU OR KORRA! THEY DIDN'T EVEN WANT ME GUIDING ROKU! THEY HATE ME! YOU KNOW IT TOO!" She went on like that for a few minutes, before she ran out of breath, and started swaying on the spot. She laid down.

Many Hours Later

It had been more than a day. Amon's identity had been revealed to all of his equalists, everyone had returned to Air Temple Island in one piece, more or less, and they had headed off for the Southern Water Tribe.

Aang was confident in his widowed wife's abilities to heal the new Avatar, after all, Amon had bloodbent Korra, and so the block was physical, therefore bendable, and not spiritual.

But he was wrong.

For an hour…and a half…two hours…they waited.

Then, there was a tremor felt by everyone. Only Kyoshi, now cooled off, knew what it meant. "She is contemplating suicide?" It was more of a statement than a question.

"I suppose there's no need to sugarcoat it." Aang sighed, stressed to no end.

"Go to her."

"I can't! She must connect with me!"

"Actually, Aang," Yue piped up. "When we are at our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change. I would say that Avatar Korra has hit her own personal rock bottom."

Light Chakra…forehead…deals with Insight…blocked by illusion…and the greatest illusion in the world…

Separation.

…

"Not now Tenzin. I just wanna be left alone." So I can end my life and be reborn without anyone guilt tripping me.

"But you called me here."