Okay folkies, another late update. It'll be short. And I know sometime the characters get a little ooc. But I'm the writer and I do what I want. It's not like I'm making them REALLY out of character.

"I'd like to tell another story," Zuko said in a low voice.

'Really?" Iroh asked incredulously.

"This is very unlike you,"

"Perhaps you fall to remember Uncle, Spirit's Night was my favorite day of the year." Zuko said softly.

"I want to hear another story from you," Aang said cheerfully.

"You tell good stories,"

"There was a young beautiful girl, Shen named Shen whose father owned a large farm in the Fire Nation Countryside." Zuko began.

"She was a very pretty girl with shining black hair and beautiful golden eyes. It just so happened that she was in love with a farmhand, who went by the name of Tam. Her father thought that Shen was too beautiful for the homely but kind Tam and forbid her to even talk to him. When she ignored him and continued to see Tam, he decided to send her away,"

"Why do parents always interfere with romance?" Sokka interrupted.

"It's like they want us to be miserable,"

"Parents interfere because we think we know what's best. Sometimes we do not know what is best, but we pretend we do. Fathers, I have noticed are especially picky over who their daughters choose. Especially if it is their only daughter. It's the way parents are. When you have children, Sokka you will understand," Iroh said, pouring tea.

"May I continue?" Zuko asked irritably.

"He sent her to her Uncle, who lived miles away. Shortly after she left, Tam became very ill and died. Many said he died of a broken heart. Shen's father felt so terribly about the death of his daughter's lover, he couldn't bear to tell her the truth. Shen was in total ignorance about well-being of her boyfriend,"

"How awful!" Katara exclaimed, hands over her mouth.

"One day, she was making some tea when she saw Tam outside the house with a Kimodo Rhinoceros. She ran outside and with joy in her heart threw her arms around him.

'Oh my love!' she cried.

'Come, your father wants you home,' Tam said to her.

'Pack your things and come with me'

She packed a few things and got on the Kimodo Rhinoceros with him. The rode as fast as they could through the countryside.

"My head aches something awful," Tam said, when they were halfway there.

Shen out her hand on his forehead.

"Oh!" she cried.

"You are as cold as clay! I hope you are not falling ill, here take my handkerchief,"

She tied a pure white handkerchief around his head as gently as she could in hopes it might make him feel a little better,"

"How would that make him any better? It wouldn't work!," Katara scoffed.

"yeah," Toph agreed.

"That sounds stupid,"

"It's a story," Zuko sighed.

"Maybe it doesn't have to make sense"

"When they returned to the farm Tam made Shen wait at the front door, while he put the Rhino back in it's stable. While she waited her father stepped outside.

'Daughter what are you doing home?' He asked bewildered.

'Tam came for me and brought me here. He is in the stable now,' she explained.

"That cannot be!" Wailed her father.

'For he is dead!'

Shen was astonished at this news. Immediately she and her father ran to the stable, but they only found the rhino that, for a large animal was shaking terribly in fear.

They went to Tam's parents and with their permission they dug up Tam's grave. After opening the coffin, they found Tam's corpse with Shen's pure white handkerchief tied around his head."

"Wow," Katara whispered.

"He came for her even in death! That's sweet, scary, but sweet."

"I wonder how he got out of his grave?" Toph mused.

"You know I never thought of that," Zuko said.

And as the youths began to debate how Tam got out of his grave, Iroh sat back, sipped his tea and smiled.