"The monk?" She? "Not Aang -"

He vaguely recalled seeing the female airbender he'd never spoken to mentioning animals of some kind over the comms. "You've been spending time with an airbender, and she's not dead yet?"

That he didn't trust her was implicit. His discomfort under her piercing stare was only amplified by the strange conditions of her presence at the air temple.

"Why?"