"But it wasn't a trap and it wasn't going to explode," he argued back. "And if I see something strange I should go to it. Even if I've lost my bending, I'm still the Avatar. A Avatar. I know more about spirit energy than most of the humans alive."

He'd had the cosmic energies of the universe practically fry him from the inside out without killing him. He felt he could handle whatever spiritual energy was concentrated there. Raava was still within him and a part of him, after all.