36 It's Not Your War

Watching as the statue of Kyoshi suddenly glowed, Thorian immediately understood that this was a spiritual signal. He recognized the boy, who was accompanied by two members of a water tribe.

The real question Thorian was asking himself was whether they belonged to the only tribe that had not joined the coalition, although after this victory, they should be obligated to join. The Water Nation at the South Pole couldn't afford for other water tribes to remain separate; they had to unite, and that was a responsibility everyone had as victims of an invasion that they must stop.

When he saw that the Kyoshi warriors had done their job, Thorian descended to the village without any problems, now that everything was under control and it was known that it wasn't an enemy they should worry about.

Now that visits were more frequent, the island was much calmer in the presence of uninvited people, and all this was handled in a more discreet manner.

When everyone who had arrived at this village was taken to the cabin, Thorian learned who this boy called Aang claimed to be. He introduced himself to everyone as a being who had disappeared at least a hundred years ago.

Knowing that the presence of this being was both a problem and a solution, Thorian knew he had to either accelerate his plans or change them.

"He's too young to understand the conflicts of war, and it's clear he won't understand our pain." Thorian thought as he watched people leave the meeting that had taken place.

"What are you doing in a place like this?" Thorian, who had heard a bit of the meeting, looked at the boys who belonged to the Water Nation and asked them directly.

"And who are you to speak to us as if we should be concerned about you?" Sokka asked, looking at Thorian with slight annoyance.

Katara stopped her brother and whispered, "Have you looked at his clothes? He's also from the Southern tribes; doesn't his hair tell you anything?"

"Is he a guy from your village?" Aang looked curiously at Thorian, who was also looking at him in a not-so-friendly manner.

"We are at war; how dare you wander through these seas that are not yet controlled by our nation?" Thorian gave Sokka a more serious look, who seemed to be the most mature of the trio.

When Sokka looked at Thorian's hair and those scars on his arms, he asked, "Are you the White Demon?"

"I see that your village is the only one that hasn't joined the coalition, although that will change now. Is there anything else you haven't reported besides encountering a being that shouldn't be alive?" Thorian asked, looking at the boy, who had no hair and had tattoos of arrows on his head.

Sokka frowned, and as the guardian of his village, he said with courage, "We have no right to inform you of anything; the new war you're leading our people into will end up destroying what little we have left."

"That's our fight, and for now, we are winning. At least I think you should know that since we have rescued the water control warriors who were captured during all this time, hopefully I will find someone familiar." Thorian said as he turned around.

Aang, who saw Thorian's expression, asked, "Is the only way forward the one you're following?"

"Let me tell you something, Avatar boy: this is not your war, at least not now... Each nation fights in the way they see fit, and it's no one's right to intervene in our pain." Thorian, who said these words, mounted Doki's back, and without looking again at that trio, he left the village.

"What's wrong with him?" Sokka didn't understand Thorian's behavior at all.

Katara said nothing; she wanted to learn from the warriors who had come to their village on one occasion and said, "He was named the ruler of our nation; he has been fighting for years, so I suppose he does it not for protection but for revenge."

At that moment, Suki came out of the cabin and said, "It seems you've met Thorian; I thought at least you, being from a water tribe, knew him. They recently won a very impressive war; they expelled the Fire Nation from these seas, so they deserve some respect."

"That's impossible!" Sokka said, remembering how a cruiser had arrived in their village recently.

"It sounds hard to imagine."

"Don't you think they can win the war?" Suki frowned, seeing that Thorian's sacrifices weren't being recognized.

"It's complicated..."

"I thought water control masters were lacking in this part of the South Pole." Aang, who understood little about how the world was currently, expressed his thoughts.

"That changed five years ago; at least you should know a little more about how the South Pole is before contradicting the actions and sacrifices of a person." Suki was one of the few people who had seen Thorian's horrible wounds after the war, so she could understand better how things really were.

"I'm also a warrior..." Sokka murmured, wanting to change the subject of the conversation.

"Yes, but it doesn't seem like it."