After that night, Kaya walked around "glowing" and thoroughly satisfied for another week. No one could find out the reason for her behavior, but I think this won't last long if I don't find ways to make her room's walls more soundproof. That time we were lucky — no one was passing by that side of the palace, but guards or servants often pass through here. I should solve this issue as soon as possible.
Soon my little friend will also strengthen, and looking at my ever-increasing volume of life energy, my libido will be insatiable.
In a calmer setting, I hinted to Kaya that I wanted a very large family. She understood everything perfectly. There were no outbursts or screams — she simply asked to leave a place for her in my heart too. As it turned out, she hadn't expected to be the one and only. Outstanding people don't have simple lives, and she believes I will be a Great man. Kaya is real gold.
Meanwhile, I thought about beginning my journey around the world, but I don't intend to stray too far from the poles yet. First, I should raise at least one of my sources to the highest rank, and I can only do that in the spirit world. Therefore, I chose the Northern Air Temple as my first goal — it's located not too far from our tribe. My plans also include visiting the Western Air Temple and Kyoshi Island. All these places are not too far from the poles, so I'll manage to return for the solstices.
Father and Sokka received my idea without particular enthusiasm, but quite calmly. The female part of my circle was unanimously against my little journey. It was difficult to convince them all, but after a week of siege, I succeeded.
So they wouldn't detain me under some other pretext, I slipped away from the city that same day. After just fifteen minutes, I was flying on a water platform through the air over the endless ocean, checking against the map I had borrowed from father's shelves. In the cartoon, it seemed like the Avatar and his team covered great distances in just days, but here in the real world, the distances are real too. And even flying at high speed through the air, I would need to find some small islands to spend the night and continue the journey with renewed strength.
As I moved away from the pole, the need for warm clothing lost its relevance. Precipitation increasingly fell not as snow, but as rain. Monotonous travels get boring very quickly. If I didn't have bending, I would definitely die of boredom, but as it was, I began inventing activities to improve my bending control.
I had never tried combining manipulation of two elements simultaneously. Trying to produce a fire stream, I only managed to destabilize the water platform. This turned out to be much harder than I thought. My body wasn't used to releasing two elements through the same channels at once. During this process, they began interfering with each other.
For the rest of the journey, all I did was run different energies through the channels, and by the end of the trip, this gave positive results. Now I can use two elements simultaneously, but only their basic techniques. Avatars didn't seem to have such problems — annoying.
The Northern Air Temple looks, um... "airy," more like a castle from Disney cartoons. And knowing the monks' lifestyle, the question arises: "Who built this for them?" As I remember, all the Air Temples look simply phenomenal — such architecture in the Avatar world we never encountered anywhere else except these places. [ image ]

Landing on one of the ledges, I saw a wall that hadn't seen repairs in ages, as well as plenty of grass and plants that had grown on the paths. Everything seemed so lonely and abandoned, yet there was a time when airbenders flew throughout the entire Temple, filling this place with life.
I spent the whole day walking around the Temple's entire territory, feeling like I was in a museum. The Mechanist isn't here yet, but I think that won't last long. I should visit here in a year or two and lure this brilliant inventor to our tribe — such personalities don't just lie around on the road.
I found several airball fields that airbenders loved to play on. Inside the Temple, an entire section was dedicated to statues of past Avatars. It was interesting to look at people who had guided the entire world with their actions. The first Avatars looked much more warlike than the recent ones. You could see that they had to defend their point of view not only with words about balance and harmony. Essentially, they laid the foundation by which the entire world considers Avatars some kind of chosen ones who are feared, respected, and revered.
From the clothing alone, you could see how humanity stepped forward. And if at the very beginning it was rough and barely processed clothing, then with new reincarnations, various fabric colors began appearing. You could see that people had developed a certain standard in tailoring. Armor appeared even later.
As I noticed, most of the female Avatars were very attractive — maybe even all of them. After all, everyone has different tastes, but each of them was definitely above average. Take Yangchen, who despite some baldness, was quite something. What is this? Is it Raava's intolerance to ugly people? Is it the effect of all four elements on the Avatar's appearance? Or am I just overthinking? [ image ]

I spent the next couple of days sorting through surviving scrolls, parchments, books, and generally everything that could still give me a grain of their knowledge and wisdom. The Fire Nation burned most of this already scarce resource in this world — you could say that along with the genocide of the nomads themselves, they erased their history too. If Aang hadn't awakened, the world might have completely forgotten about airbenders in a couple more centuries.
In some rooms, I found surviving scrolls and records. Well, it was interesting to read the amusing names of monks who won at Air Polo. There were also records with population censuses, and even some statistics for all the Temples. This particular one was purely male, like the Southern Air Temple. There were only four temples total — two female and two male. How did they replenish their ranks? I became very curious to learn this.
The next day I searched for various secluded and inconspicuous spots, hoping to find something interesting in such places. But except for some doors that can only be opened with airbending, I found nothing else. The Mechanist supposedly managed to open some of them without having a drop of bending, but his brain works better than mine. Sometimes even my own thoughts can't catch up with me...
The first journey turned out peaceful, but not as interesting as I had imagined. Although sometimes the soul desires such tranquility.
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