We Are Golden - Mika.
After the formal party the friends met up alone to have a quiet get together and catch up. Living at all ends of the world as they did, they didn't get to see each other much. Aang and Katara had been travelling the world, doing avatar things, solving problems and saving lives… that sort of thing. After the war people there was still a lot of animosity between nations, and Aang and Katara were trying to resolve these sorts of conflicts. It wasn't easy work, but it had to be done, and Aang was the guy for the job. With all his avatar work, he said, it was hard to find time to have fun, but the two of them still managed it somehow. Katara smiled. "You'll always find a way to goof off," she said.
Zuko had been rebuilding and reconstructing the Fire Nation, working with the Earth King and representatives from the North Pole to form new alliances and treaties. He had encountered the same problem as Aang, and he was working on fostering good relations between peoples. Leaders getting together and discussing was the first step on a long road towards true peace. He had taken over a nation in trouble; having put so much into the war effort, the fire nation had crippled itself in other industries, and all of the resources that had been looted from other nations had to be returned. He said every day brought a new headache, and Mai rolled her eyes at him. The good news, of course, was his recent engagement to Mai, though since neither of them was given to outburst of joy, it was hard to tell if even that was good news.
Uncle Iroh had been happy running his teashop in Ba Sing Se since the war, and playing Pai Sho every day. He had closed up for a few weeks to come visit his nephew for these happy days. He visited with the young friends for a little while, but he soon complained of fatigue and groaning at his old bones, he went off to bed.
Sokka had gone to the North Pole to offer his services as a guide for anyone wishing to visit their friends at the South Pole. With all the southern waterbenders returning home, and all the northern waterbenders immigrating, there was plenty of work to be done rebuilding the South Pole. Sokka had been keeping busy. At least, that's what he told everyone.
Toph was noticeably silent during the meeting. Well, she wasn't silent; she had plenty to say, but nothing to say about herself. She would laugh loudly at Aang's stories, and make fun of Sokka any chance she got, but she didn't offer any information on what she had been doing since the war.
When Katara prodded her she just shrugged. She said she'd returned home to make her parents happy, though things were weird since she was no longer the fragile little girl they had believed her to be all her life.
She said, she hadn't done much of anything.
