Building a foundation

The next weeks Thalazar continued his torture experiments, making me feel distant...my body...my soul...my very being, they all started to feel different. Through his blood-bending my personal will was pushed back more and more, it felt like I was a seperate person, as if I would watch myself from a third-person point of view. I know it sounds horrible, that's because it was horrible, but I think it was something that can benefit me. I involuntarily learned to distance myself from my feelings, my pain, whenever I had to think of my family I tried to imitate this feeling and make the pain go away. Sadly it still didn't help me bend blood.

As Thalazar realized I wouldn't be able to learn blood-bending by this method, he decided to change his course of action "Hmmmmm" he as always eloquently explained.

"You are still not able to bend blood...but maybe...if...yes...Follow me."

I did as I was told, we walked for about one and a half hour till we reached the small sea where I and my brother went to, when we were younger, it was -as always- a beutifull sight. There he stood for a few seconds, staring at the water, absolute silence reigned until the sea started to move in circles. At first only a little bit , then it quickly started to take on different dimensions, at the end of his bending show off the whole sea was flowing in circles, creating a huge whirl.

"This my child is water-bending. I want you to do the same. Come back when you can show me at least half of what I just did." After saying this he left, leaving me alone to do the impossible.

'This asshole! If it was that easy we wouldn't have a war!' after a few moments, maybe even a lot of moments I calmed down and accepted my misery. 

'How did he even do that? He just looked at the water. My mother always told me stories of the great water-benders of the north pole, she said they made huge extravagant movements, creating water-whips to fight. This was without any movements at all. Is he that advanced?! Or is it just a different way?' 

At first I tried to exactly imitate his doing. Watch the water, but I didn't even know what he had been doing, so I decided it was best to visualize the sea in the form of movement he had created. It wasn't a big surprise that nothing happened, and I mean: Nothing. At. All.

But I was dedicated, i wanted to change and gain power. So I concentrated and concentrated and concentrated. I sat there at the shore for whole five hours and concentrated, trying to make the sea budge even a little bit, until before me a small tiny minescule drop of water could be seen rising from the water and hovering before my face. 'WOW finally' As I got excited the water fell back into the sea. 'Even though it's not what I wanted, it's a start! If I continue at this speed I will make the sea move in no time!' I was horribly optimistic and motivated back then, which made me sit there and "train", if you can call it that, till my eyes closed and I fell asleep.

The next few weeks consisted of me standing up with the first sunshine, finding some wild fruits to eat, train, eat again, train, eat, train, sleep, and repeat. After the 7 week Thalazar came around again. At that time I could already move a huge waterball in the air, with just my mind. 

"I see. You have improved, my child." 

"Thalazar, didn't you say I should only come back if I could replicate your bending?"

"Hmmmmmmmm...I wanted to see your improvements, is that all you can do?"

"Well more or less, I can create one huge waterball or two smaller ones, and move them around" 

"Can you move the water in the sea in circles? Can you manipulate the water temperature? What about fighting?" He seemed a lot more energized talking about bending, than talking about anything else.

"No..."

"Freeze the water and hunt with it." After saying that he walked away again, this time for entire three months.