Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
The ride back was full of tension. Neither of them dared to break the silence. Katara stared at the yellow ribbon dangling from Aang's fist. The sight of that necklace filled her with dread. She knew that was not the reaction a young woman was supposed to have when her boyfriend proposed to her.
Then again, she wasn't just a young woman anymore.
Aang was right. Being Fire Lord had changed her, opening a whole new world of possibility, just as a young boy with a flying bison once had. She wasn't sure she wanted to be just Katara again.
