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Ryu, the current Avatar, did not want to be found.

Ryu sighed. "Everyone sees something. The fortune-tellers in the Lower Ring told me I'd meet my destiny on a Tuesday. It's Thursday."

"I'm not looking to be found," Ryu replied.

"You're hard to find, Avatar," she said, without awe. avatar the last airbender 2

"I'm not here to fight you," Ryu said.

"I see you," Ryu whispered, turning to face the Echo from inside the shadow's own embrace. "You're not a monster. You're me. And I'm done abandoning you."

"You have neglected your duty, little Avatar," the dragon whispered. Its voice was the grinding of continents. "You hid in swamps while the wound grew. Now the other half of your soul walks the world without you." Ryu, the current Avatar, did not want to be found

"No." Ryu stepped forward, onto the black mirror. "I'm here to remember."

Ryu found Jaya at the swamp’s edge, arguing with two strangers.

He sat cross-legged in the hollow of a petrified tree deep in the Foggy Swamp, trying to ignore the buzzing of spirit flies and the louder, more persistent buzzing of his own doubts. At seventeen, he had mastered waterbending under Master Katara’s stern eye, earthbending in the gritty quarries of Ba Sing Se, and firebending on the caldera rim of a dormant volcano. But air—the element of freedom—remained a whisper he could not catch. The fortune-tellers in the Lower Ring told me

He raised a hand. Li Na’s firebending turned to black flame that consumed her fans. Kavi’s dance stuttered as the air itself went still. Jaya fell to her knees, clutching her head—the stone in her satchel was now weeping a dark, oily substance.

The Echo was not his enemy. The Echo was his pain. His fear of failure. His anger at the world for needing him. His exhaustion. And you cannot destroy pain. You can only hold it.

The Echo in the Stone