"I was born before the war started," he made eye contact again to increase the chance of being believed. "But when I ran away from my people... from my responsibility... I got caught in a storm. And a special Avatar power activated that protected me by... by freezing me.

So I got frozen in an iceberg, for a whole hundred years. It was like I was asleep. Until... until someone woke me up." It felt weird to try explaining that towards the same face that had been his first sight upon awakening.