"We've lived with it a long time, and its why a section of those waterbenders split off and became the Southern Water tribe. I have a feeling that the Fire Nation saw both men and women as benders as a threat and attacked them first. It didn't help they didn't have as treacherous terrain as we do either. So our tribe remained intact, but at the cost of being shut off from everyone else."

Women with higher status? Sounded almost fiction to her in some ways.

"Even if I became a leader, it wouldn't be my place to send away others! I find that, from my own teachers, you start to teach them just as much as they teach you in some ways. Though they might be podded now, I feel like my teachers learned from me as much as I did from them, especially when they have to adapt their methods."