Somewhere in the Earth Kingdom
She knew it had to happen. The day, her little girl started to ask questions. She really tried to avoid the contact with others, for her daughter and for herself, so nobody could find them and bring the idea up, that a child must have a father. And there now was this little girl with her big round eyes full of curiosity and fear, what the answer might be. Her amber, almost golden eyes that always reminded her of him.
But how could she explain the situation she had been in to a four-year-old that had almost never contact to other human beings ?
At this point she recognised the tears in her daughters eyes and she felt like the universe just had fallen onto her head. Katara bursted out in tears and hugged her little daughter tightly.
In the chambers of the Firelord
Zuko felt sorrow. A deep sorrow that lastet on him for almost five years now. Even if he tried to concentrate on one thing his thougts always drifted away to this person and the questions she left him with and which were burning him from inside for all this time.
He remembered how they both swore to each other that they never would part, that they would ever love each other, and two days later she was gone, gone, gone. The fact that she hadn't given him any explanation just hurts him more, because now there wasn't anything he could deal with, nothing he could argue against, it was driving him crazy and the worst on it was that the others were minding it.
Mai, the queen he had to choose after the love of his life left him broken, just had come up with a plan to overthrow him. She even had had the Fire sages on her side for they didn't trusted in his sanity anymore. Even uncle Iroh thinks that I'm going to be like Azula, just a little later and worse for there is no Zuko to stop me. Although the fate of his sister had hurt him, he still didn't want to be like her.
Too bad I just can't send some of my people there or go there myself to search for her, I really could use her advise yet. But who could he ask to do this? Her brother? Hey, Sokka, long time not seen, could you please leave your family for a few weeks to travel to the Earth Kingdom for me, because I, the guy from who all think he's insane, think that your sister might be there and I want her here now?Or ask his dear friend Aang? As if he wouldn't search for her already, but not for me. I bet he's still angry of me. Or maybe he should send a letter to Toph? Okay, think again, send a letter to a blind woman.
Suddenly he had the idea he searched for: Ask uncle if he could search for her! He's in the Earth Kingdom already and knows a lot of people there. He immedeatly took out paper and ink and began writing.