As Kasai told her to hang on and came over to her shelter once more, Avani expected her hopes of them sharing a bed coming to fruition, but she was let down with a teasing remark about how it would have been warmer to sleep with a firebender than in a warmed shelter. She stretched out her tongue at Kasai when the woman turned her back towards her.

Avani closed up Kasai’s shelter after she had entered it, and then she crawled into her own, closing it up as well. She shifted the earth beneath her body, turning it soft like sand. She grinned knowing that Kasai couldn’t possibly do anything to get something as comfortable to sleep on, not when she had decided to sleep alone.

She fell asleep almost as soon as her head hit the earth. It had been a tiresome day for her. She’d rather not think about all that had happened since this morning, and she had tried her best to push any thoughts of her dead friend away by focusing on Kasai instead. 

His death came back to haunt her during the few hours’ sleep she would have gotten. She dreamed nightmares about how he accused her for his death, how he came back for revenge and how Mio helped him with a smile on her face. Avani tossed and turned, not getting much sleep at all, and when her nose registered the smell of cooked meat her dreams turned it into another nightmare about how it was Avani’s body being burnt, not just her arm this time.

She woke up in a cold sweat, still smelling the meat being prepared. Avani rolled around in her own shelter in a panic, looking for the source of the smell while her breathing grew ragged. She came to the conclusion that the smell was coming from outside and calmed down. She kind of felt like murdering Kasai for providing her mind with such nightmare fuel though.

Avani kicked the wall free from her shelter to get out, and then she walked over to Kasai’s shelter with a cold expression on her face. She leaned against it, and looked through one of the air holes at Kasai. 

“Well, well, look what I caught in a trap for my breakfast.” Avani grinned mischievously. “So, what should I do with the Lady Sergeant now that I have her at my mercy, hmm?”

She yawned, scratched her head. She didn’t want to imagine what her appearance was like with so little sleep. Death itself may very well look better than she did, for all she knew. Avani was glad that she didn’t have any mirror.

“How about I make you beg me to release you?” Avani laughed. 

“Oh, but Lady Avani I’ll do anything to get out from this devilishly clever trap you caught me in.” She went on, now mimicking Kasai’s voice as a response to what she had just said herself.

“Anything, you say?”

Avani went back to mimicking Kasai, gasping as if shocked, and put a hand in front of her mouth while keeping her eyes wide open. “No… Not that. I’m far to upstanding and full of myself to consider the thought of doing something like that with another woman, but…”

She removed one of the walls to Kasai’s shelter, and crawled inside with a grin across her face. “But?” 

Avani stopped for a moment and looked at the cooked meat with a frown. “That gave me nightmares, you know. Maybe you should consider that I just smelled my own flesh burning yesterday when you make breakfast in the future.” She blushed briefly. “Not that we’ll ever have breakfast together after today.” She cleared her throat with a cough.