"More sugar?" Kaya said, wrinkling her nose. This was one of the things that the water tribe had actually lacked: she'd read up on the long term effects of sugar and didn't like it. True, it tasted delicious, but Kaya had always been wary about how sweet things would be.

"You were right, actually," Kaya confessed, laughing. "My whole point of coming was to see that Borealis thing later, and to get some meditation time for myself. It hadn't occurred to me to eat, and if I got hungry I probably would have just chalked it up to fasting."

She lay back against Nokosi, marveling in the way his warmth and Fontaine's were already working its magic on her: you could literally see the steam rising from her.

"That depends on what you mean by better," Kaya said. "I'm at peace with the things that happened. They still hurt."

Around Kaya's neck, one could see a looped necklace with a blue stone containing what looked to be a lock of fur.