"It is your self-professed duty to keep balance in this world." There is an edge now to the Mother's voice. "Yet you are unaware of the reason for the spirit vines and what force has utilized the power to adjust time itself? Do you not believe that this is something that merits investigation?"

This Avatar is not quite as confident as the one she remembers. Not quite as bold. So far he is just a boy . . . and a lost one at that.