Katara,
I'm heading back right now and I'll see you in three months! You should be leaving by the time you answer this, so send it by messenger hawk. Or just don't send it. We have a lot to talk about in person.
The Avatar is . . . pretty incredible, actually. Well, on one hand, he's just an ordinary person, like my grandfather used to be, except much, much nicer. One the other he's a little bit out of it, but I think that's more because he's 112 and probably about to die than the fact that he's the Avatar. And he's really active for his age! He had a pretty good conversation with us and said that he knew that Lu Ten would be an amazing Fire Lord (Lu Ten blushed, served him right after everything he's tortured me through over the past few months). And then he looked at me and . . .
Well, he looked like his head was hurting for a bit, so we got up to leave, but he told me to stay behind. And then he said "Young Zuko, I knew you much better in another life. Here I hope you find happiness," and that was confusing, right? So I asked him what he meant and he said that was all that I needed to know. Oh, wait! And then he said that I am deserving of Avatar Roku's bloodline. Turns out that he's my great-grandfather. That was interesting to find out, I don't know why my Mom didn't tell me.
I'm still a little curious as to what that meant in general. Lu Ten and I talked about it and he said that maybe Avatar Aang could use the spiritual world to see destiny and fate and that maybe there is another world that exists out in space where he knows me very well. How would that work? I . . . I don't know, so I'm just letting it go. It seems like this life is better for me, anyway, and I'm happy with it.
I'm glad you're sticking up for the younger girls in the tribe, but I'm not surprised at all. And I'm sure that the clothes you create for yourself will be absolutely amazing — there isn't that much blue here, so you'll have to wear red. Although I'm sure that you'll look great in it!
And it's a surprise! It won't be ready when you come but it will be after a few months, hopefully you can stay for that long, or I'll come and get you. We'll plan a birthday celebration for you before my seventeenth. It'll be amazing.
— Zuko