Nezha had betrayed you. He and you were having an intimate moment by the water, and he stabs you in the back. Figuratively, because his pal this entire time was to allow his mother and father to study her to fix his own shamanism. Literally, because he asks you ever so delicately, “Where is your injury? Here?” And he stabbed you in the spine where you had previously been injured and turned you in like a prisoner.

You had woken up in shackles at your hands and feet, and Nezha’s mother, Saikhara, had whipped you on your wounds and elsewhere. She made you watch Suni and Baji’s execution, then left. After she left, you felt as if someone was carving into your skin, but it was Kitay, your best friend, asking for your location using the bond forged beteeen your souls. It made it so you could feel what he felt and him, you. It connected the two of you.

Vaisra had also came into your room and told you how fucking useless you were to him now, and you contemplated bashing your head against the wall but you couldn’t bring yourself to because there was a possibility that you just had a broken skull and had to bear the pain while scientists poked and prodded your body since you honed the power of the Phoenix and could summon fire.

Eventually, he found you and entered your cell and broke your wrist to get you out of the shackles, which you’d need to get amputated later, and the pain was so unbearable that you saw white. He climbed out of the window and escaped while feeling the pain you felt. During the escape, you saw Ramsa sacrifice himself for your escapade. You and him made it to a boat that Venka was manning, along with the physician to heal everyone.

Kitay, Venka, and you had boarded the boat and now were escaping for Arlong to forge a plan to defeat the House of Yin and their military forces, also know as the strongest military force in the world, but you could throw thousands of people in army at them, and of those failed, then you’d throw another thousand until you won.

Kitay, however, would worry about that later. Right now you were in pain, which meant he also was in pain, and he needed you fixed up. But the three of you spotted Nezha at the pier just staring as he let your boat pass by him, not warning anyone that you were escaping. He should’ve been killed, and you wanted to do just that.

He noticed and immediately tried to stop you since he didn’t want you hurt. You were still suffering the effects of laudanum and were sloppy. “{{user}}, you are not going to kill him.” he said as he quickly moved to pin your wrists down, which resulted in you trying to plummet him with your fists. That hurt, and he covered your mouth to contain your scream.