Author's Note: This story is about how Hawk got his name, because I had reasoning behind it in future chapters but not why Lin named him that.
After 20 minutes on the ferry from Air temple island, Lin had finally gotten back to the city but she didn't know where to go. The man she wanted to spend the rest of her life with had just broken up with her. She couldn't even think straight, she just kept walking and didn't care where she went. The heartbroken women didn't stop walking until she heard the splash of a fountain, she was in the park. This was the place that she had first earthbent when she was playing with the other children. That was one of the last happy childhood memories that she had without her mother or a huge rock.
The nostalgia overcame her and she had to sit down. The area was full of benches and ledges but she needed somewhere quiet and without all of these people. There was this large tree that created a show over next to the river and it was perfect. After making her way over,she sat down on the far side of the tree so that no one would disturb her. A few minutes latter she heard a loud screech.
The screech came from above her but it wasn't odd to hear bird and other animals in tree so she just continued to watch the water flow and think about what she was going to do now that things were over with tenzin. The only thing she could think of was a name for the baby, she knew it was going to be a boy but she also needed a name just in case it was girl. Girl names where easy because she could just give it the name of any female member of the Air nomads or a thousand other names of famous earth women. Kyoshi came to mind and so did yangchen but that would have to be decided by eye color because the color of their eyes usually meant their bending type also. Boy's names were harder for her because she knew that there were a thousand names that she could use for a son that may show that it would meant for greatness but she didn't just want a name that showed greatness but one that showed its personality.
With that thought a Hawk glided out from its perch on one of the highest branches of the tree. It landed on her knee and looked straight into her soul with the most intoxicating eyes she had ever seen on an animal. The Hawk slowly lowered it head do that its beak we right in front of Lin's belly button, the whole time never moving its gaze from Lin's. Next, it moved its head so that its beak was pointing straight at the ground and cautiously touched the top of its head to Lin's stomach. Lin was left shocked, it wasn't every day that an animal did something with such care or even do something like that in the first place.
Lin had never listened to Aang or Tenzin's when the talked about the world trying to tell you something but now she would. She had found the name for her baby.
Author's note: This chapter is really just something small so that I can have another chapter and not have too long in between each. I have two chapters on the way but neither is good enough to post yet so… here you go. As always thanks windowbuddy.