<div class="floatright">(http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2012/092/8/f/8fdd0b6a8312afdde292f8a7429bde3d-d4ut5vt.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Avatar Shiroe<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Akari's hut<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Team Avatar, Akari<br/><hr/><div class="floatleft">(http://i1180.photobucket.com/albums/x416/Qwarkl/my_waterbender_by_bjhenriquez-d582bf4_zpsbd6be780.jpg)</div>Shiroe motioned for her to follow with them back,<strong>"Cmon Akari, it'll be fun!"</strong>Expecting his friends to follow. He gave some consideration to Mei's challenge, though for now declining it,<strong>"I'd rather walk back with the spirits actually, and our new friend here. We could race later, I don't want our first impression of the water tribes to be that we're showoffs"</strong>He chuckled, urging them all to walk back together.<br/><br/>At the tail end of their happy walk back together, the tone was not as joyous as when they were first received, the crowd was mixed with protestors, several of them chanting and holding up signs, all with the notion of the Avatar needing to send the spirits back to the spirit world and close the portals. This was the first time Shiroe had ever seen an organized protest, even if it was a relatively small one.<strong>"I am doing nothing with the spirits. They are free to live in this world, and I stand behind Avatar Korra's decision to leave the portal's open. We share this world. It's been over a hundred years since the portals were opened, and I still believe that humans and spirits can live in peace together."</strong><br/><br/>A particularly loud man, possibly the organizer of the protest, responded "Those spirits have been nothing but trouble since they arrived all those years ago! taking our space, our natural resources, and even worse, some could be weaponized! For the saftey and peace of us all please Avatar, send them back!"<br/><strong>"No."</strong>He said firmly, though one may notice his now furrowed brows and his hands moving more into loose fist. The Chief then had the people move back to their homes, so it seemed like they would be waiting there a few minutes more at the entrance of the tribe. As small it may seem to others, this was another test for the Avatar, but one that made him look down and pat a spirit that was on his shoulder. Even if it was a small group of people, a protest like that bothered him.