Tenzin saw Pema emerged around the polar bear–dog paddocks. He walked forward asking her why she was outside. Pema panted a little before she answered.
"I followed Lin." She said taking his arm. "We had a little chat"
Tenzin gave her a look. "About?"
"Don't worry, I just wanted to make sure she's alright." Pema answered ascending the steps to Katara's house. "I was freaked out a little to find her standing by the cliff side."
Katara heard them and decided to join the discussion to distract her from the day's unfortunate issues. "Who?"
"Lin" Pema said, sitting down. "It was embarrassing really. I thought she's gonna- oh how silly of me to assume such a thing."
"She's gonna what?" Tenzin inquired, exchanging a look with Katara.
"Well, after all that happened," Pema said, dragging a hand down her tired face. "I thought it might be unbearable for Lin, I mean bending must means a lot to a master bender like her. So, I thought she might jump off the cliff and-" Pema let out a little chuckle. "Now that I think of it, it's a silly thought really, it's Lin. She's not that weak."
Tenzin and Katara were looking at each other with horror struck expressions. Pema look from the son to the mother trying to convince herself otherwise. "You don't think she'd-?" She asked, suddenly standing up.
"Mom, you don't think she's at the 'Lin's Peak', do you?" Tenzin said, ignoring Pema and take a hold on to Katara's shoulder.
"Pema, tell us where she was, exactly" Katara asked her daughter-in-law.
"Half a mile away from here, near the stupa." Pema said. "What's Lin's Peak? You don't think she's-?"
Tenzin did not wait to answer his wife's question. He was gone in a flash. Katara made a phone call to Kya, "Lin's at the Lin's Peak. Tenzin went. Go there, she'll need you too."
Pema was confused. She grabbed Katara's shoulder, needing an explanation. "Lin promised me she won't do anything stupid. Why are you all so panicked? She insisted that I let her have some lone time and she has something to do by herself." She sounded worried. "I shouldn't have taken her word seriously."
Pema, she's not gonna kill herself," Katara assured. "At least that is not her intension." The addition was scary in Pema's ears.
"What do you mean?" Pema asked. Suddenly she felt so childish about leaving a women who lost it all, by a cliff side all by herself, just because she was told to leave.
"Lin used to go cliff diving whenever she was upset. It made her 'make sense of things'" Katara quoted. "It was always the same peak. That's why we call it the 'Lin's Peak." She exhaled worriedly. There used to be an under-water tunnel leading to a small pool. Lin loved it there. But we don't know if the tunnel has collapsed or not. It's been around 17 years since Lin last visited and stayed." Katara finished. "This child..." She said, dropping down to a chair nearby, and burying her face in her arms.