Time To Heal

chapter 16

When the twins returned Eska retreated to her room while Desna returned to the table.

“Excuse my sister. She is not in need of any nourishment tonight.” He said to Senna before turning toward Asami before adding

“She holds no resentment nor blame toward you. She just wishes to be alone with her thoughts.”

Dinner went on quietly with only Senna or Tonraq urging Korra to eat more.

“Look…I’m just not hungry okay? Seriously just leave me alone.” The avatar snapped after a while before turning toward Asami.

“Help me to my room. I’m done here.”

Without a word Asami got up to help the shorter girl, thankful that the mood swings hadn’t been too bad since they had come here.

When she returned to the table Asami looked emotionally exhausted.

“Is she okay?” Senna asked, earning a sigh.

“Yeah…sorry about that. Sometimes she gets into these moods where she’ll bite your head off….other times she’s just like she always was.” Asami replied, rubbing her eyes tiredly.

“You said that they used a liquid metal...mercury Poisoning causes alteration in moods and mental distress. Perhaps that is the cause of the night terrors that cousin has been facing.” Desna stated, setting down his glass.

“How long do you think she will be like this?” Tonraq questioned, earning a muted sigh from his nephew.

“It depends on the damage and amount of mercury that was introduced into her bloodstream.” The northerner answered.

Much later when Asami entered the bedroom that she shared with the southern girl she found that Korra was sitting up in bed, her eyes trained on the covers as if she was deep in thought.

“Korra? Are you okay?” she asked, earning a sigh.

“What do you think?”

Asami cringed inwardly at the tone that her friend used though she only moved closer.

“want to talk about it?” she questioned, earning a glare.

“What’s there to talk about? A crazy man poisoned me.” Came the sharp retort.

Asami only sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed, afraid to actually say anything since she seemed to be shoving her foot into her mouth all day.

“I’m sorry…It’s just being here while everything in the earth kingdom is going to hell…I should be out there helping not stuck in a blasted wheelchair!” Korra growled, causing Asami to sigh.

I need to make sure that she doesn’t listen to the radio...she doesn’t need anything else to make her feel like this.

Asami thought as she just took hold of Korra’s hand, causing the bronze skinned girl to look up in surprise.

“You just focus on getting better….Let the world take care of itself for a little while; You can help once you feel you’re strong enough.” She assured, causing Korra to glance down.

“But I’m…”

Asami wouldn’t even let her friend to continue the sentence

“You’re Korra…Avatar or not you need to worry about healing yourself. I know that this is hard…Spirits I do but look, once you get through all of this you can focus on helping the earth kingdom.”

Korra nodded then, her eyes growing moist as she looked up into her friend’s concerned gaze.

“Okay…I’ll try to hold on.” She gave in, her grip tightening slightly on the non-bender’s hand.