Sylvia walked over to her mother's house. "I'm home," she called.
After some crashes from upstairs, she saw her older sibling tumbling down. Their face lit up when they saw Sylvia. "SYLV!" they cried. "Oh, you're home! Mom and I've been so worried about you!"
Sylvia allowed her sibling to practically strangle her, though thankfully they didn't cut off her windpipes. "T-thanks, Kai," she managed. "What about Alex?"
Kai let go of Sylvia and scoffed. "Alex? Please. The only thing she cares about is when she'll get her next meal. She didn't even know you were gone when Mom and I went looking for you."
Sylvia sighed. "Well, I guess I can't say I wasn't expecting that..."
Kai frowned. "Sorry, Sylv..."
"It's okay," Sylvia forgave. "It's not your fault. Now where's Mom?"
"She went shopping. She blames herself for you disappearing. Where'd you go, anyway?"
Sylvia sighed. "I'll tell you when Mom comes home," she told Kai. "I've got a lot to explain to all of you."
When Sylvia's mom came home and Sylvia, Kai, Alex, and their mom, Ella, were all able to talk, Sylvia explained the whole thing. "So now," Sylvia concluded. "I'm going to be leaving with my friend, Zu."
Sylvia's mom burst into tears, hugging Sylvia to near-death. "Oh, Sylvia... We'll miss you, all of us will!"
Kai joined in on the hug. Alex shrugged and hugged Sylvia too, but Sylvia didn't feel much empathy (or even sympathy) emanating from Alex.
It was true. All she was worried about was when she could eat.
Wow.
After saying their goodbyes, Sylvia went to her father's farm, knocking on the door. Her father opened the door and greeted her with open arms, but this time, Sylvia was uneasy.
She told her father, Sam, what happened.
Sam thought for a moment. "Can I see your 'shard', Sylvia?" he asked.
Sylvia hesitantly pulled out her shard, but she didn't let her dad take it. "If you take it, I don't know what you'll do with it. I don't want you taking it away from me, Dad."
Sam sighed. "You'll be in danger. You're going to die out there. If I don't take that, I'll lose my precious daughter."
Sylvia paused. "Well, maybe it's for the best." Before her dad could react, she continued. "I finally have the power to do something useful in my life. If I stay here in the village with you and the others, you'll just make me do more farm work! There's no purpose to that! I want to see the world and I want to save Ninjago! I see hope! I know the Ninja are out there, and even if I die trying to find them, so what?!" She realized that now she was yelling and lowered her voice. "At least this way, I'll die doing something useful."
She stormed out of the house before her father had anything to say and slammed the door closed. She wiped some tears she just realized were there and walked over to Zu. "I'm ready," she told him, voice still shaky but brave.