"Yeah! She wasn't being the leaf!" Ikki shrugged. "She got better, but...right now, I think she's closer to when she burnt 'em down than she isn't."

Ikki was busy spoiling the rest of Aang's future while not telling him about the air gates, until just now.

"Okay! Remember, be the leaf on the wind!" The little girl is the one who steps forward to set the gates spinning once again.