I don't know. Sounds like nature is the thing coming out on top in that bargain. You shouldn't have to pay a price for something like that.

[ Spoken like a true bender, Mako realizes, and anyway, he can't talk to lakes. Maybe lakes really don't like being bent.

It niggles at some sense of justice still in him, the idea that he can use fire like it's nothing and that Vyng has to scrape for it, sacrifice to make it work. That doesn't seem right. ]