She could feel Kasai approaching from behind, but waited to see what the woman was going to do before reacting. Avani was spun around and came face to face with Kasai. Too close. Kasai was too damn close to Avani now. She could even smell her at this distance. She was spellbound by the fire in her eyes as she spoke.

It didn’t come as any surprise to Avani what her reaction was to Kasai’s invasion of her personal space, and frankly she didn’t care what the little cop would think of it. With her left hand, she grabbed a hold of the back of Kasai’s head and hair, pulled her closer to her and kissed her on the lips. Avani closed her own eyes, enjoyed the forceful kiss and tried to slip her tongue past Kasai’s lips into her mouth. 

“I know” Avani said, once she’d stopped, but she didn’t let go off Kasai’s head. “I don’t have any medal to give you, Lady Sergeant.”

She’d quite enjoyed the feel of Kasai’s lips and the expression on her face after she’d kissed her once, so naturally she did it twice. This time she got her tongue past her lips though, greeted Kasai’s tongue with her own and lingered like that for longer than the initial kiss had 
lasted.

Avani let go off her hold on Kasai afterwards and turned her back towards her. “I doubt many would consider saving my life a good deed either, so I guess you lucked out this time. No promotion or reward for you.” 

“I’m going to find and save Mio, if there’s even a slim chance she’s alive. You may actually receive a reward for saving her. You know, since she’s a rare airbender.” Avani laughed mockingly, then began to move again.

She walked slowly, both to let Kasai get the supplies and catch up if she planned on doing so, but also because she felt unsteady on her feet. Avani picked up a long branch she found on the ground, removing any smaller branches and leaves on it to turn it into a walking stick. She realized she did not know if the direction she had been heading was the one they had come from, or if her friend was likely to be that way. The corrupted sky could not be seen through the foliage of the forest.

Avani had to admit her mistake to herself, but could at least blame it on the loss of blood making it harder to think rationally. She returned to their shelter, now able to move a bit faster thanks to the walking stick she had created.

“So I guess I do not know which way we came from, laugh all you want.” She said to Kasai when she had returned to the shelter. “I suppose…” She swallowed what she’d been about to say, but what choice did she have? “I suppose… Um, maybe it would be for the best if we put our differences aside and worked together to find Mio…?”

That had been a lot harder to ask than she had imagined it would be. It occurred to her then that maybe Mio wasn’t the only one that may have survived. What about the two guys on Kasai’s team? Well, now she’d already asked for her help, and there was no way to pretend like she hadn’t without looking like a tool herself.