AN: Wow I've got my work cut out for me. I guess I won't be going anywhere any time soon. XD
Also, as a side note, have you guys been keeping up with news from Comic Con? BECAUSE IT IS TEARING ME APART. I am dead. Destroyed. Spirits, it's all too much. I wish I'd been there.
Asked by iBend
pure failure
Korra was alone in the spirit world.
She sat amongst the roughage, her head bowed in shame, her hands poised in her lap for meditation. She looked up at the sepia sky, her blue eyes bright, and she sighed. She had expected to find Aang waiting for her. He often was.
But apparently not today.
She understood why. She'd made a mistake. She had to find her own path back. That was the whole point. No one could tell her what she'd done wrong. She had to figure it out for herself, or else it didn't really mean anything.
She sighed and pulled her knees up to her chest. The spirit world had become an escape for her since she'd become a fully realized Avatar. No one, literally no one, could bother her here. It allowed her to think and feel more clearly. Being on earth, well, it was rather grounding if you'll excuse the pun.
"Everyone is mad at me." She mumbled to no one in particular. "I did something I wasn't supposed to. I abused the Avatar state." She paused, her arms tightening around her knees. "I know I shouldn't have. I don't know what I was thinking. I just got caught up and I guess that knowing I could after not knowing for so long…"
She trailed off. She didn't know what kind of argument she was trying to make. They were all excuses. She was being selfish, she knew. Korra buried her face in her hands and let out a shaky breath.
"Aang never would have behaved like this. I don't know what is wrong with me. Nothing I do is ever quite right. I'm just… I'm the worst Avatar." She pounded a fist against the ground, her fingers curling into the dust reflexively.
She waited in the silence for some sort of response. When none came, she nodded her head in dejection. "I should go apologize."
The slightest breeze picked up her hair, brushing it against her neck. "Yeah, that's what I thought."