"So... is this it?
The two children stopped, staring at the patch of ground in front of them. It was very different from the smooth dirt road they were standing on.
"Of course it is. It ends here."
"But... this can't be it."
The girl did not believe it. They had walked many miles to reach this point, and now there was just nothing.
"Katara-"
"We didn't come this far for a dead end!"
"..."
"Do you think we can turn around...?"
"No. We have to keep...moving on. Thats what Uncle said before he...well..."
Passed on, both of them thought.
"That's what my mother said, too, she told me that she loved me and my brother and that I could never look back, and I couldn't regret my actions if I had followed my heart...and that...if there was ever a point in my life if I felt I had nowhere to go... I just had to go forward. That's what she said."
But now she, too, is dead and gone. Forever.
"But how can we go forward? The road ends here; this is the end of the road. We can't go farther."
"But I think now we might just have to trust ourselves. We can't go back..."
"But Katara, you aren't supposed to stray from the road; didn't your family tell you that? You have to stay on the beaten path..."
"No, Zuko you don't, you don't have to do what everyone tells you, because they aren't always right..."
"But..."
"Things continue on after the road ends, Zuko. You have to keep going. Everyone has an end of the road, Zuko, everyone does!"
"There are streams you have to cross, Zuko, mountains, bridges, but the worst part is always the end of the road...
"Because it's inevitable. Every road has an end. No road keeps going on forever."