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


Katara found her loneliness was less here. In the weeks following Azula's near fatal attack they'd spent many hours in these gardens, Zuko often teasing her florimania.

She'd reminded him where she'd grown up there were no flowers. Gran-Gran had told stories of when the tribes lived farther south, of wondrous summer blooms casting gray tundra into breathtaking color.

Then the Fire Nation had come, driving them further and further from their ancestral lands until they were nothing but a shattered people on a block of ice.

Zuko had shut up then, offering her a single white lily in remorse.