Time To Heal

Chapter 46

Disclaimer: still don’t own anything. Everything still belongs to Nickelodeon. A/N: The Forrest of Fanfic on fanfiction.net suggested to have Desna to open up to Tonraq. So here’s the result of that suggestion. 
Tonraq was careful as he approached; watching as Eska shot shards of ice into the trunk of a nearby tree.
“Killing a tree won’t help anything.” He stated eventually, noticing how both seemed to stiffen as they turned toward the sound of his voice.
“Uncle…What are you doing here?” Desna questioned, forcing his voice to be even though his eyes betrayed him.
“You’ve both been acting strange lately. Is there anything wrong?” the southern chief questioned, earning a sigh from Desna.
“Sorry. It is only that…..” the northern prince began, however much to Tonraq’s surprise Eska grabbed her brother’s arm.
“Don’t tell him.”
It was the first time that the older chief could recall seeing any kind of emotion come over either of the twin’s face, though something about the panic found in her eyes set him on edge.
“Eska…He deserves an answer.” Desna sighed, though he gripped his sister’s hand as if to look for reassurance.
“The truth is we….had a Polar dog once. It was a cub that Eska and I found while out with our mother. It was starving and injured. We attempted to restore its health and would have succeeded…if father had not found out about it.”
Desna’s voice broke slightly as he spoke, the tone sounding displaced in his usually stoic voice.
“What do you mean?” Tonraq questioned, though he had a feeling that he didn’t want to know the truth.
“It was a useless attachment….A weakness unfit for the elite.” Eska stated, her expression darkening as she tightened her grip on her brother’s arm. The motion gaining Desna’s attention.
“He decided to teach us the meaning of our advanced abilities and what we could do….But we had to be able to not feel compassion.” He began though his own tone dropped into a husky tone.
“It was in so much pain….Yet it still trusted us…but we.”
Without even a warning Eska had thrown herself against Tonraq, the emotions that she had been trying to hold back overflowing now.
“That was not your fault. It is Unalaq’s.” The southerner assured, placing his free hand on Desna’s shoulder.
“I’m going to follow them. Honestly who knows what they are planning.” Korra stated, earning a scoff from Asami.
“Korra…Honestly. When are you going to put these weird notions out of your mind?” she groaned before turning her attention back to the kids that were telling them all about the pups.
“When they stop acting like they have an ice cube where their heart should be.” The avatar replied before heading off. 
“So you both can blood bend? Why would someone force their children to learn a technique that could drive even an adult insane? Particularly in the way he did.” Tonraq stated, sitting between the two on a fallen log.
“We were not even in our teens when we were taught.” Desna stated, causing Eska to look up.
“We were ten.” She added, shocking him.
“Disgraceful…What kind of father….” The southern chief growled out before sighing and adding with a sigh
“Well I sure as the moon rises won’t force you to murder anything…and here I wondered what drove Milina to drink.”
Noticing how they flinched Tonraq backtracked, mentally cursing himself.
Of course they blame themselves as well as my bastard brother.
He thought as he added
“That is why I detest the arranged marriages. You don’t know if you are going to get placed with someone you like or some total nut job. No wonder you did not care that Unalaq was destroyed… I knew he had issues but I never thought he would treat his own kids like that.” 
Asami was looking around the village when she felt a hand grip her arm, though just as she almost threw a punch she saw who it was.
“They killed someone! Their mom is an alcoholic….probably driven crazy by whatever else they done.” Korra panted, earning a skeptical look.
“Korra….They may be creepy but I doubt you caught the whole truth on anything.” Asami
retorted.