Reflections
Katara
Katara sat in her sleeping bag, staring up at the last of the early mourning stars. She imagined each one was the soul of someone who died in this horrible war and that she wept one tear for each person whose life was lost or family was torn apart. Then she thought of the horrible people who were responsible for every one of those tears and wished they would all perish miserably in their own fires of hate.
She had taken to doing this almost every morning now after the crystal caves. She had changed after that. She had not realized that there was still so much of her heart left to be broken.
Well she learned the hard way that, even after the death of her mother, even after the separation from her father, even after that bastard Jet had lied to her and deceived her and nearly killed her brother, that she was still vulnerable to a bastard with a sob story. It probably wasn't even a real any way. If it was, why would he go back to a father who had started the war he had lost his mother to? No, it must have just been another lie to try to get the Avatar.
Well now there was no way anyone would get to her again. Not if it meant putting Aang in jeopardy. His mission was much more important than the fact that to do this she might have to turn away someone who could really help her. She would just have to suck up her pain and deal with it. She would be strong.
