Wan was too exhausted to question how easy that 'thank you' came and only nodded.

"There were people chasing me," he got back to the subject at hand as he looked toward the portal. "They haven't followed me through, yet. I don't know who they are. But they were dressed in red and brown and the place I went to had a lot of flame symbols. Based on that, it's probably the Fire Nation. Somewhere in it. I don't know enough about the world to be sure, though."