"she changed,
but not overnight like in the books you read. over years. slowly and painfully. sometimes brutally.
but she did."
tenshi has been through a lot and on the way lost sight of who she was and after an injury, lost her memory too. when she...
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Waking up this morning felt strange, I forgot where I was for one fearful moment. On top of that the energy it took to drag myself to a standing position was almost enough to send me straight back to bed. As I stood I noticed a pain in my ankle but it seems the sisters already accounted for that as I spot some clean clothes that had been placed at the end of my bed as well as a pair of crutches. Carefully, I peeled off the clothes I had been wearing for who knows how long and found myself revealed in the mirror, displaying all of the injuries Bato had listed the night before.
A massive gash on my leg has now been stitched up with bandages wrapped around it to hide the gruesome scene from my eyes. A cut on my head that has been cleaned up and should heal on its own. There are also scrapes, cuts, and bruises littering my body. A few battle scars that seem to be older and healed up already.
Among others a few deep, grim scars catch my eye, one of the oldest being a white stipe across my right cheek ending mear millimetres from my eye; another slightly newer scar trails down the inside of my left forearm; and finally a deep scar cuts down my stomach from the nave to the beginning of my chest. It's still red, upon touching it the harsh texture contrasts the rest of my relatively smooth skin. My fingers brush over it but I immediately pull away my hand from the scar like a reflex. This must be some form of torture, to have such horrible marks covering my body, telling the story of my past, but to my eyes it is like they are written in a foreign language, leaving me alone with the only clues to my life being those of which I can't decipher.
After having changed into my fresh clothes, taming the beast that was my hair, and deciding I look decent enough to leave the room, I stepped outside being sure to put my weight on the crutches to help my leg. That's where I saw Aang feeding some large furry creature. Just as he dropped a piece of paper on the floor Mother Superior showed up. I wasn't close enough to hear what she said but Aang looked incredibly guilty. She handed him what he had just dropped and walked off. That is when Aang spotted me approaching and smiled at me.
The young boy waves at me, "Good morning Tenshi. Oh, you haven't met Appa, he is my flying bison."
"Good morning, Aang. So that's what he is. I've never seen anything like him, that I can remember that is." I replied, with a small smile on my face as I let my fingers rake through his thick, soft fur.
"You know, we are travelling to the North Pole to find me and Katara a water-bending master, I think that would be the best place to look for your family. You know since Katara said you could be from there. We could see if anyone knew you."
