ema smiled at the waterbender girl she vaguely recognized her; the beautiful smile is what brought the memories back. Those good times seemed so long ago tagging along with her mother and some elders. She remembered the chances she got to play with the other bender kids, even in those days her father kept her secluded from the villagers. The waterbenders would make snowballs for them all even in spring and they had make mudslides together. As she stood there a vacant look on her face with a side of dopey grin, she remembered what life was like before her mother left. 

“Kasumi, it feel like it’s been centuries, so much has changed… My mother never came back, she left me with father,” Her eyes started to water but she held the tears at bay. “I ran away the waterbenders took me in a couple years ago and then Master Shan found me, taught me so much more.” She turned away as a single tear broke through she hastily wiped it away and smiled as she turned back to Kasumi. “It’s all done now, a new chapter in the book,” Still smiling she said. “It’s good to see some of us haven’t changed much.” 

She set to eating her food without saying another word enjoying the flavour of the pork buns and sweet and sour sauce washed down with a swig of coffee. Some might think that was an odd flavour fusion, but after last night the caffeine was much needed in her sleep deprived state, not that she ever got much. Maybe with friends to talk to and help her she would finally be able to find some peace. She looked around once she finished her meal at the ragtag group, there was the Jun guy. He was kind of cute in a rough swashbuckling way; she noted the sword by his hip. Gai she’d seen before and was still keeping an eye on him, fire is never to be trusted. The Lemur girl now sitting across from Gai, she kind of looked like one, well except for the ears maybe. And of course Kasumi, her old friend who stirred up so many long lost memories, maybe they could renew their old friendship. They would do well she could feel it even as she somehow innately sensed something was about to go horribly wrong.