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Broken Melody
It was something he had never expected to hear. The dark night, the hushed whispers, the aching pain…everything felt like a nightmare more than reality. He could remember Appa's groans through the middle of the night, marking the route of an unknown freedom waiting above his grasping reach. It could have been his….everything could have been his…. But he chose not to follow that path…that path that ached so much to even think about.
What else could his weary heart trust?
He didn't cry. He didn't gasp. He didn't yell. He only felt his heavily burdened heart drooping away and craving for something he missed so much- sleep. He desperately wished to close his eyes and rest, feel protective arms wrap closely around him and ensure him with nothing but pure bliss.
He tried. He failed. And he had fallen.
It was then that the night was welcomed with a soft tune. One so beautiful that it was sure to melt the harshest of hearts. It didn't pierce the night sky as everything did right now through his sparkling eyes. It only drifted slowly through his ears, calming down his nerves. Oh, how he loved that familiar song.
The Sleeping Lotus…
He opened his eyes painfully and used every will of his weak, tormented body... just to glimpse at her beautiful face that stared out into the oblivion of the silent skies. Her crystal hues were so moist that it seems no other spirit could weep so much in an entire lifetime. It perturbed him deeply. Everything that should have been deathly quiet was now a peaceful moment altogether. He wished it would never stop. All because of that beautiful tune.
He saw her soft lips moving up and down. They were barely moving, so it made everything seem a lot more confusing. It was like she was never even singing. But she was. He could feel it. The beautiful girl who saved him and the fate of the world was now singing…just to him. His tears fell.
The hushed whispers relaxed into soft breaths as he heard the others giving into sleep. The two of them were the only ones awake now. Slowly, he closed his eyes and gave her hand a gentle squeeze of reassurance.
Aang finally lost his eyes to sleep with a smile on his face…the smile that will always adore the voice of Katara's heart.
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