Jaya looked at him as he told her what she said was nonsense. She stayed quiet, merely nodding when he agreed to camp with her. She turned and started to walk a short ways from where they had been left, off the main road. She found them a small clearing and dropped her bag. She sat down and pulled out a few sticks from it. For the first time since they started walking, she spoke again, "Allowing them to push me around... will change something. That isn't how they believe people of the Fire Nation are... They believe us to be aggressive and destructive... like the fire we bend," She stuck the stick into the ground then, with ease, lit them. She dropped her hands into her lap, "If I were to go back.... They may not give me a chance to prove myself... They may become worse than they were today.... I may have to protect myself... Then where would we be. The Fire Nation fighting people... Just like they suspected," She smiled at him, the light of the fire flickering in her amber eyes, "Sometimes trying to fix things only makes it worse."