A water tribe woman is not supposed to leave her home. Katara's grandmother crossed the world ocean to make a new home for herself, and Katara did not think twice about following after a boy she believed would save the world.

Those were days of upheaval and war. Katara thought that she herself would make things normal - she would be the mother to their group, she would create their home on the back of a flying bison or wherever they happened to land, and in time she would be Aang's wife. Now the world is returning to a normal that Katara does not recognize. The normal life that she thought she wanted was the fantasy of a little girl who died long ago.