DREAMS into NIGHTMARES
CHAPTER 4
Sokka, and Katara followed behind Hakoda as they went inside the tent where they saw their mom lying on a rug with many bandages all over her small body. Her beautiful face was now pale with ugly scratches. Then a moment later, which seemed like an hour to Katara, the healer put a long white cloth over her head down to her legs. She was dead and the children knew and began to cry.
"Who did this to her?" Katara asked with anger in her voice.
"A firebender. Right before she found me. She was badly wounded and couldn't speak. That's why it took a while for Bato to find you two." Hakoda answered with sorrow in his tone.
"Dad? Please tell me she's ok!" Sokka begged.
"I'm sorry but she's gone but is still alive in our spirits."
"No! She's alive! She cant!" Katara yelled running out of the tent to the far edge of the village."she cant...no." Katara whispered to herself. She grabbed her necklace and held it in her hands. "You're here mom. Aren't you?."
"she is Katara." her father said coming up behind her. "She is in each one of us in a different way." he put the necklace back on her neck. "You just have to find it and she'll always be there. Like when people see you they think of her. You are a child version of your mom. You bring her alive when people look at you and your personality. You have her spirit of life." he gave her a kiss on the check the both headed back.
"Dad?" Katara asked.
"Yes."
"Thanks."
He smiled. "Just don't cry so much anymore. You need to be strong."
"But I miss her. So when I miss her I cant cry?"
"It's not that you cant cry. it's just that her spirit can rest if you don't."
"I don't understand."
"When my grandpa was dying he told me this :
'When I come to the end of the road,
and the sun has set for me,
I want no rights in a gloom filled room,
why cry for a soul set free.
Miss me a little- but not to long.
and not with your head bowed low,
remember the love that we once shared.
Miss me- but let me go,
for this is a journey we all must take,
and we each must go alone.
It's all part of the master's plan,
a step on the road home.
When you are lonely and sick of heart,
go to the friends we know,
and bury your sorrows in doing good deeds.
Miss me-but let me go.'
Now I want you to remember that, Katara."
"I love you daddy. I'm sorry." Katara hugged him. "But dad will I ever see her again?"
"One day we will all be together as one family. Don't let your hope's down. She is always smiling. Down on you."
everything began to fade.
"Katara? Katara are you ok?" a familar voice asked.
She opened her eye's. "it was a dream?" she asked her self.
"Are you ok? You where crying."
"Yeah I'm fine. I just had a bad dream about my mom." she turned to the face. It was Aang.
"Katara you always comfort me now I want to do the same." Aang said holding onto her hand.
"Thanks aang."
They both hugged she layed down to sleep and felt aang lay next to her wrapping his arm over her. She didn't pull away, instead she held his hand again and whispered to him "thank you."
She kept thinking of her dream. She missed her family, but was grateful that 3 members are with her at that moment, sokka, aang, and her mom.
Later that night before resting her head she recited the poem her father told her in her head.
"Miss me-but let me go." she whispered then shut her eyes.
The end!!!!!
The poem I used is called 'miss me -but let me go'. I didn't write it. It was used at my grandma's funeral. I don't know who exactly wrote it, but it's my favorite. Thanks for reading!