It's a little complicated. [mostly because it isn't as if the Red Lotus' purpose was to punish her. it was bryke's :|] I basically was... I mean, it wasn't really about me, I know. There was a group of people who wanted the Avatar eliminated - any Avatar, every Avatar, whatever. So I was kidnapped and... and they--
[pauses. look, it's still not the easiest to talk about even if she tells herself she's over it now.] They poisoned me. So that I couldn't be reborn afterwards.