[Sorry we can't have exposition right near the enemy zone, this isn't a shonen anime]

[But he'll start walking further into a forest, at a bit of a slower pace than what he does normally so Aang has a chance to keep up, what with the boy being short and out of his body for the past four years]

...I was lucky.

Something I had always thought was something to curse...turned out to be my unexpected savior.

Suppose there's a lesson in that somewhere.