章 9: 8. Aftermath
88 years after the genocide of the air nomads.
The Northern Tribe of Water. The personal training ground of the tribal leader.
In a large and spacious room completely built of ice, which usually serves for the training of the Leader and his defenders, a beautiful white-haired boy was now practicing, who smoothly made fluid movements moving around the field when water was flowing through the air in time with his movements.
A little girl of three looked at all this performance without taking her eyes off, her sky-blue eyes moved in time with the movements of the boy, allegedly trying to remember all his movements, even the pens that she held in front of her unconsciously tried to repeat what she saw.
After a couple of minutes, the boy stopped his movements and looked at the little girl with a smile.
- Did the little princess want something from me? – he asked with a slight smile and a visible warmth in his eyes.
- Brother, you promised not to call me that anymore, - the girl said, sweetly puffing out her red cheeks, - mom asked me to call you to eat, and when will I also start practicing water bending?
- Wait just a little more, and then I will personally start teaching you, - said the boy stroking her soft white hair.
- Look at me, this time I won't believe it so easily, but let's take an oath on the little fingers, – the girl demanded, putting her hands on her hips and trying to give herself a menacing look in this way, which made her even more cute.
- Of course -of course - obviously having fun, the guy said, putting out his little finger to seal the most indestructible oath in the world, and as soon as they linked their little fingers, the boy put the squeaking girl on his neck and ran towards the kitchen.
And in the empty room, the distant children's happy laughter still sounded.
***
Yuki
The day after giving birth, I woke up with a severe ache in my body, it feels like I was overloading whole wagons of bricks into one yesterday. And so it went on for a whole month, a whole month of bed rest, when you want to climb the wall out of boredom.
At that time, utter chaos was happening with the energy, I was even afraid to just go down there, so it was clear that nothing good was definitely happening there.
All that month I was lying in a solitary ward with healers, where my parents came every day and water benders could watch a theatrical scene called "The Hen-hen that cares about the egg". I think it's not necessary to say who was in the main roles. It was clear that my parents were very worried about my condition, but often it went over the edge. Sometimes, in order to send my mother home, I had to really persuade her, it's good that every time she mentioned Yui, she immediately got ready to go out.
There were also positive aspects of my long stay in the healers' ward, for example, time for simple reflections. Comparing the date of the sister's birth and her age at the time of the Avatar's arrival, it turns out that the canon is going according to its script, of course, maybe this is the only coincidence so far, but everything I have seen so far leads to the fact that there are no strong changes yet. Coming up with a name, especially something East Asian, when only Slavic and English names are spinning in my head, is very difficult, but I coped by simply leaving the name that was given to her from the cartoon.
And finally, after asking my parents, I found out the whole sequence of events that developed behind the wall of the ward while I was waiting in the corridor. As it turned out, Yui had weak breathing at birth and the doctors fought for her life for half an hour, the parents, seeing hope in the bending of water, completely forgot about the spirits of Tui and La that could help. Of course, it's good that it ends well, but when I came to the world of people, I relaxed too much, I need to remain vigilant, and this situation was a good demonstration that the world is a whole heap of unforeseen events, both good and bad.
One day, lying in the ward and being on the verge of sleep, I felt someone else's emotions, faded, barely noticeable, but definitely not mine. This happened at regular intervals, and each time they were felt more and more clearly. I won't pretend to be a thinker, but it was easy to compare when, firstly, the place of the epicenter of these emotions was the Leader's palace, secondly, the emotions themselves were primitive and could change just at breakneck speed, and thirdly, I felt a piece of my particle in the same direction.
It was fun enough to feel Yui's emotions, I even learned to send my own to her myself, often when she was unhappy with something, I tried to cheer her up, and it gave results. I don't know, but I can guess why, she has become closer to my parents for me in a few days, I think I would have loved her so much, but the part of me that still seems to be in her just connected me to her on some spiritual level.
A month later, when I came home, I finally saw Yui, and to be honest, I realized why I had been subjected to such tenderness in the past. Yes, because just seeing and not understanding with this concentration of kawaii will not work.
Yui's parents began to be jealous of me, as soon as I appear in the range of her feelings, then immediately her hands reach out to me, the rest of the family members are ruthlessly ignored. Only I can immediately predict what she wants, and I'm also better at calming her down. It was necessary to see the faces of my parents when they gave me contradictory expressions to babysit, they would not understand what the reason was, they even began to reduce their working hours in order to spend more time with her.
Now about bending, the result was not as bad as expected. Yes, there is no part of my energy, but it regenerates at a visible rate, yes, because of this, the merger was suspended, but the period is not long by 5 years, I will definitely recover, it turns out that the date of the full merger has been pushed back by only a year, which is not very critical.
Having firmly decided to develop in other areas for the time being, I began to complicate my workouts by adding more strength exercises, because of which I often drove myself to exhaustion, which was not very pleasant, especially when my mother did not want to treat me, thus arranging a boycott against my heavy training, but seeing the futility of her protests, thawed and began to heal again. This body never ceases to amaze me, it heals faster and faster, and all the parameters of the body are exactly higher than my peers. Only to check it in children's fights, it was very embarrassing.
My parents tried to bring their friends' children for my socialization, but just once after looking at the faces of my peers who were not yet burdened with thoughts and comparing them with me, they decided not to bother much with this, correctly believing that somehow before that I got along with adults.
The books in the library in the palace have run out, now you have to run to the city and read there, I would like to take it with you to read at home, but knowledge is very valuable here, which is why the library staff can safely send both the son of the leader and the leader himself with such wishes far away.
I am determined to finish with all the books before the age of five, well, or most of it, while I am not given to actively engage in bending, I need to pump my brains and muscles. But when the bending is activated, I will be able to fully devote my time to her alone.
By the way, from dad's library, I now know, purely in theory, how to properly carve different animals, how to determine how old the carcass was, which parts of them can be used for medicinal tinctures. I know how to build ice houses, for a comfortable stay in them, there were many books on fortification from the kingdom of the earth. A whole bookcase of books about waging war with the people of fire from past leaders, and they died then quite often, they really paid for this experience with blood. The flora of the North Pole was described in a thin book that was gathering dust on the top shelf. I even fell in love with reading books where one water is water, it was even worse than some ranobe from China, but when you have an information hunger, it all ceases to matter. Yes, there were a lot of books about everything.
In the city abode of knowledge, the situation is not much better, only there was a whole section for water benders, techniques, various enlightenments of masters, there were even scrolls with authors that found a thread that would stretch to methods of controlling blood, and pumping water out of everything around us. Yes, these were simple arguments, they did not have enough of their century to confirm their research, and other masters twirled their finger at the temple and threw their scrolls at the very end, as utter nonsense. After all, how they don't like to deviate from tradition here, it seems to me that in the southern tribe they would only ask how many enemies they can put down with these skills.
I found another treasure in the middle of an ocean of water, this is a book authored not even by just a person, but by a human being who created the first bending of healing, well, maybe she's not the first, but it's not enough to learn, and who will reflect on the sources of these abilities and write for an uneducated people? And then I know how they are learning this bending now in the healing huts, there is more practice there, it didn't work out how it should be done? You will do it until you learn. They do not like theoretical justifications here, the continuity of the generation is still strong, when masters teach students.
So that's what it says here, I immediately say the aunt was thorough between the lines, she was not even too lazy to throw mud at the policy being pursued at that time, to call the leader and elders short-sighted stubborn sheep, which was also strong. After visiting Wang Shi Tong's Library, she found records about energy bending, then drawing her conclusions came to other knowledge about vital energy, then found records about Qi. As a result, she called the authors of these books morons that they could not read each other's books, and here I completely agreed with her. The authors of these books described and studied, in fact, the same thing, just a book on energy bending was written when people lived on turtle lions, then the second author studied the same thing, only at the beginning of the Avatar era, calling energy bending essentially vital energy, which is also true, because even in the first book the author wrote "Energy bending is the ability to control vital energy", the third author also started studying this topic, already called this type of energy simply qi, but the authors told about one thing.
It turns out that during the treatment, the healer must add a piece of his vital energy, and the vital energy in fact flows in each of us, it even looks like prana. The author, in a number of statistical analyses, found that healers live significantly longer than even the most powerful benders of any element, she believes that every time healers bring themselves to depletion of vital energy, they unknowingly increase its density and conductivity, which as a result gives them stronger health and longevity.
And now I can't wait to do healing bending myself, what opportunities does this open up, but what if I learn how to manipulate blood and already charge it with my qi for healing? Is it possible to increase the efficiency of rejuvenation itself in this way? In fact, this is the way to make your dear people long-lived. Because I'm definitely not going to leave this world until I really get bored, and with the opening of the chakras and my nature of a kind of hybrid of spirit and man, I have to live for a very long time.
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