Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.


She didn't sleep that night. Creeping through the shadows, Katara made her way to the arena. It was just as she remembered it, minus, of course, a crazy princess. Zuko had seen fit to leave the arena in disarray; a monument of sorts to that final battle that both broke his family and saved his country.

Blackened columns decayed in the summer heat. Jagged bits of earth reached skyward, remnants of Azula's lightning. And nearly lost in the shadows, remained an all too familiar rusting chain.

Katara stood witness to the destruction, allowing herself to cry for the first time.