16. Reunion

It was good at home, for several days in a row I did nothing but rest and spend time with Yui. For her pardon, she asked me to start teaching her to conquer the water. I didn't tell her that I was going to start her training soon.

Yui's talent in water bending was colossal, did not catch up with mine, but was definitely several times better than ordinary benders. In fact, she could have started training herself, but in order to increase the efficiency of the time spent, we decided to study together, and it was a great opportunity for her to be with me more often.

After that conversation about our spiritual connection, Yui, with my permission, under my own control, began experimenting with this connection. In the course of her research, she discovered that with a shortage of her energy, she could borrow mine as well, if I was not too far away from her. That is, she could train until she dropped, but it's still harmful to practice bending more than necessary, my energy of higher quality with long use of it shakes her energy, but with small doses, such practice will only benefit her, her own energy will try to catch up with mine a little bit.

Another feature of our connection was in its gradual development, last week, when she could not find me, Yui tried to reach me with emotion or at least find my location, which of course did not work because of the distance, but it gave an unexpected result. With my appearance, with our simultaneous concentration on communication, there is the possibility of telepathic communication, where every sentence and word can be emphasized with some kind of feeling, that is, this communication is no worse than a simple conversation.

The thought came to mind that he just didn't want to leave. And what if you give a piece of yourself to someone else? Will it make a bender out of a simple person? Will the gift awaken?

In the situation with Yui, many factors played a role, we are close relatives, our energy does not differ much, the second she was a baby, so her energy had to be plastic, and most importantly, all her ancestors were from the water tribe, my energy consists of neutral and water, that is, you need to take into account my element. I think if I gave a part of myself to a native of the people of fire, it is unlikely that he would have awakened the bending of water. It's worth thinking about, I'm ready to walk without water bending for the sake of strengthening my environment. Hmm, you could give your particle to Kaya, after all, she gave birth to Katara, which is a bender, so she herself is close to awakening the gift.

There are no irreversible consequences after the birth of Yui. Then I definitely did not give away a piece of my soul, it seems that if I had done so, the situation would have been worse. If you remember at that time there was a stabilization of my sources, but because of my actions, this process was postponed for another year, most likely I shared a piece of my gift of bending, it took about one year to fully restore it, but you need to take into account that then the sources were not even activated, now having an average spirit rank, activated sources, this procedure should take much less time. For me, this is a profitable exchange, it remains only to open the first chakra, so as not to be completely defenseless if I still decide to do this.

The schedule of my trips to the Southern Water Tribe was discussed with my parents. This month they asked to stay at home, and from the next it was decided to visit the other pole at least several times a month, most likely I will get out there for a day or two every week, it would be possible more often, but it is better to limit myself in advance so that there is time for bending and my experiments with blood bending that I want to start spending in the next month.

Today I need to have time to finish everything, tomorrow I will go to the South Pole, it is also worth remembering to take some animals with me, I think over time I will be able to reduce energy consumption in order to protect not only myself during the transition.

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This month has been very productive in terms of improving the skill in healing bending. Back in the Southern Tribe of Water, when I examined each resident, I managed to notice sores that, not being healed in time, could develop into a more severe form of the disease in the future. In the North Pole, they are used to going to healers only if they are already completely unbearable. It seems to me that the inhabitants of the North Pole will have no less different sores than I found in the southern inhabitants.

Having come to the Healing Huts, under the supervision of senior colleagues, he was able to prove his belonging to those healing masters who can treat severe injuries. It was another plus to my reputation.

On the mass prevention of the population with healing bending, I was prompted by the idea of insufficient practice in this bending, during these few days as I became a senior healer, only three people came to visit us with severe injuries – this is very little for my development.

I had to dodge and convene a meeting at which I raised this topic so that this issue could be resolved quickly, I decided to hold a small demonstration, otherwise I know how this apparatus of power works, while it is swinging, while all this may take more than one month.

Having chosen the people who were most likely to be exposed to any injuries or illnesses, I asked their permission to diagnose their health status. As I expected, everyone had injuries that caused them discomfort. There was nothing urgent or fatal there, so I was able to cope with the treatment quickly enough, but what was the effect, each of them felt much better, even had to ask the participants of the meeting to go to the Healing Huts and sign up there, seeing the results with their own eyes, they wanted to carry out the healings here and now. Who has not accumulated any sores with age, everyone has them, but they would not have guessed about such prevention themselves, there is still some narrowness of thinking here, they go to healers only when injuries like a burn, a broken bone or wounds with sharp weapons appear, in fact everything that can be obtained during sparring, war or unsuccessful hunting.

Healers have never experienced such a load, even during the war there were not so many visitors, but each new cured person was a living advertisement and proof that healers should not be underestimated. Residents, seeing even greater benefits in healers, began to enroll in healing courses on a large scale, even ordinary people would like to be able to provide first aid, yet knowledge has accumulated here not only on healing bending. I had to rebuild the old building in an emergency mode, making it bigger, no one expected such an influx of students, even some male water benders came, but there were only a few of them, but this is already an indicator.

The first few days, I had to face a lot of different diseases and injuries, but they were mostly of mild or moderate severity, which would not help me move on, having thought about this problem, I decided to ask all the other healers to send me only patients in severe form, or those whom they themselves could not cure.

This month was super fruitful, such a leap in the understanding of healing bending will probably be difficult to achieve, most of the serious illnesses were no longer an obstacle for me, only really incomprehensible and strange cases remained a serious burden for me. I began to understand life energy better, adding it to water no longer cost any mental effort at all, even she herself became more malleable for me.

It was found out that the main organ of vital energy is the heart, no, the whole body interacts with this energy, but the heart appears here as if first among them, that is, acting on the blood with its vital energy, there are already considerable chances of somehow influencing it to get the desired longevity. In fact, the body begins to age when the vital energy has already reached its peak and is on the decline, but if it turns out every time at least a little bit, but to increase its quality or quantity, you can live much longer.

Interacting with bending and qi, I was able to understand that life energy is more material, in fact, people on lion turtles used it more, just the same, only then they received their gift of bending. Bending is more immaterial, but in order for a bender to use it, he must conduct it through his body through certain energy centers, which was shown when Aang took bending from Ozai. Another example is Korra, who was also deprived of bending, in fact they had bending themselves, you just can't use it at all. You can say that you have a router (bending) that consistently distributes Wi-Fi, but the laptop (your body) does not have the right driver to use the Internet, I agree with such an example.

Having made a lot of progress in healing bending, I wanted to try blood bending, it seems that Hama started practicing it on rodents during the full moon, but this is possible not only with him, it's just that water bending is much stronger during the full moon.

It was not difficult to find rodents, it seems that small pests adapt and survive in any environment. I don't know exactly how many years or months the Boor studied this, but for the whole month I could only feel the blood itself, the echo was very weak, there was no question of any impact, patience is needed here, okay, there is still time, you can move step by step in this direction.

It is much easier to influence my blood, I even managed to start developing a new technique, which I called a bloody puppet, I think it will be useful in the household if someone like Tai Li can repel the sensitivity of my limbs. In this technique, saturating my blood with energy, I take it under my control, now the movements are too jerky and ragged, but having caught on, I think I can use it at least in some kind of battle, well, or I can just escape with it.

I would like to try to learn how to collect moisture by drying plants, but here at the North Pole there is trouble with flora, you will either have to start learning this without being here or immediately start experiments on collecting water from the air, which seems to me much harder.

I found out when the next solstice would be, as it turned out, it would be only in four months. I would like to get a closer date, but I really couldn't wait to find out if I could absorb the spirit of another element and get its element. That would open up a whole lot of room for different kinds of action.

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The Southern Water Tribe

Kaya

Almost a whole month has passed since Yuki left us, for some week breaking into the life of our tribe, he became the guiding star for which all the inhabitants of our small tribe began to strive. Everyone seemed to have started living anew, seeing his efforts, it's hard not to start doing something yourself, now the older generation is actively teaching wisdom to teenagers and children, not a single day in the tribe passes without some pleasant fuss.

Only now I realized how calm my soul became, in his presence, I am ashamed to admit, but I did not feel such support even from Hakoda.

I hope he will return as soon as possible, Katara comes to the place of his appearance every day in the hope of seeing him again, Sokka goes there with her every time, while each time trying to excuse himself, after all, what kind of boy is he, he is still ashamed to admit to himself that Yuki has become a close person for him.

So Katara runs here again, most likely again to ask for a "walk" behind the village, but at the same time, as always, she will run to that place.

- Mom, we wanted to go for a walk with Sokka behind the wall, can we? – which required proof, some people got the hang of building a begging face, after all, it worked flawlessly on Yuki.

- Well, only with the sunset to be at home, - do not forbid her, she will still run there even without permission, from whom she has such a rebellious character, probably it's from Cannes, that in her youth she was still a rebel.

I didn't have time to notice how the sun had almost disappeared behind the horizon, it was time for the kids to return. Although you can walk to there yourself, I didn't go outside for almost a whole day, I was already going to put on a fur coat, I heard a joyful hubbub on the street. Looking out from behind the door, I could see a crowd, something was gathering in the center of the village. What joyous thing could have happened?

While I was approaching the main mass of people, they managed to make way for Yuki, who was carrying a happy Katara on one hand, who was holding onto his neck with both hands, with the other hand he was shaggy with Sokka's hair, who was trying to show himself more calm to the meeting, but the corners of his mouth no, no, yes were raised in a smile.

I myself did not notice how I smiled at him, my soul became much calmer, he returned, as promised.