Jaya looked over her shoulder at Nikko when he spoke. His words tore her out of her head as she looked around at the landscape around them. Nothing had really changed too much in the landscape and that made it quite easy to zone out when they weren't speaking. She shrugged and turned her focus back to what was ahead of them and sighed, "I'm... not really sure... I mean we've gotten lucky in the last couple towns but some of them have been living close to the fire nation towns... They might be more willing to accept me because they've seen good in others," She tugged a little at the red shirt she wore. She had taken to wearing the red a little more as they traveled as it was a nice reminder of home, "I'm sure a girl, a boy, and an armadillo lion are not the answer to the war in the world... But I think it is going to get a little better. If the peace is kept long enough and maybe if people meet nicer fire benders.... The people who lived through the war will die and the war will only live through the memories and stories told... Which makes our job important. The victors get to write history and we have to make sure that it doesn't put the Fire Nation in a position that in years from now they are still going to hate the rest of the world."

She smiled at Nikko, "We have to show the world that I am tolerable."