#day13

She didn’t ask questions she knew Lin didn’t want to answer. She had brought food from the White Lotus kitchens, so she was able to have some Gaoling Beef instead of the bland tofu soup being served to Tenzin and his family. Even the tea eggs actually had good flavor.

She was grateful, and yet.

Lin wasn’t oblivious to the sidelong glances. The pauses just before Kya encroached on her thoughts. The harsh wispers at the door, keeping people away.

It was deep in the night when they returned, full of Korra’s breakthrough experience.

But when everyone returned to the temple, she couldn’t find Kya anywhere.

No note.

No message.

She threw her things in her bag and sat on Oogi for an hour waiting on everyone else to get organized.

That way, Kya could stop pretending to care.

.

Kya knew Lin meant well.

She hovered by Kya’s bedside, reading something. She always had a book or a paper or a report in her hand.

Any time she moved, she could feel Lin’s eyes on her. It was odd, how judged she felt.

If this is what being a patient was like, she wanted none of it.

Even if Lin kept her water jug full. Even if Lin had hot tea ready at any hour. Even if Lin brought her foods her healer would have a fit over. Even if she went to get Pema instead of her brothers.

She was grateful, and yet.

Lin just wouldn’t leave her alone longer than it took to get to the bathroom and back. She couldn’t leave Kya’s blankets alone, constantly tucking them in around her feet. When Kya asked for something to read, she took the healer’s side and offered to read something out loud instead.

With a sigh, Kya had just shaken her head silently, and turned to the window.

When the healer woke her for night-time vitals, Lin’s chair was empty. The nurse said something about a police officer pulling her away too urgently for her to leave a note.

Kya waited for the staff to leave before using the last water in the jug to heal herself just a little more.

She froze her foot in a boot of ice, walked to the bay, waterbent herself to the Island and slowly worked her way up to the family quarters.