Prologue: The Sunbeam's Heartbeat
Korra knows the moment it happens.
It's not something spiritual, that only an Avatar can comprehend.
No, it is much, much more deep. Shared in and of her very being; in her very tissues and bones, beating with the little soul that she can feel fluttering inside her.
It's a little sensation, a flutter of peace that pulses all throughout her body. The little wonder making itself known before even taking its first breath.
She is carrying a soul, a tiny star that is growing in her womb that she and Mako have created. A little work of art; two hearts crashing together to morph a supernova and a typhoon of energy together in a plethora of love that shall take shape in the form of hair, and a nose, and a smile, and a laughter that will be more rhythmic that the sea of her people; of their people.
It is a girl.
She cannot explain this knowing, but the miracle in her tummy shall be a baby girl, all with golden eyes like Mako and shining like a sunbeam. The picture in her mind is as clear as day, creating an image of what will be their future.
Yes, yes, she knows this. She has never been so sure.
Now it is Mako's turn to share this joy with her.
She presses the flat of her palm to her tummy, and breathes in.
But how will she tell him? How will Mako react?
She is twenty-one and blooming, on the verge of becoming a young woman and feeling the years of her life stretching out in front of her like a map, like a gold-illuminated arrow pointing forward and forward; endlessly knitted into Fate's Hands. An Avatar on the ripe of her journey, finally understanding now that she is never alone.
But the little hands growing inside of her, will be her own Korra-fate, because in the end, the map will always point the little one back to her.
She rubs the tender skin cocooning her little wonder, and breathes out.
She opens her eyes.
"Mako...?" She calls, and proceeds down the hall, towered their room.
Hey, guys, let me know what you think! This story will be from Mako/Korra P.O.V. until the baby is born, then told though the eyes of their child, and how they feel being the Avatar's daughter, and her own life's journey.
Hope you all enjoy! :)