Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Katara was unaccustomed to solitude. For as long as she remembered, she'd been surrounded by people. First her tribe and family, then later her traveling companions; child soldiers like herself born into their great-grandparents war. After the war, it'd been a non-stop procession of dignitaries and diplomats, political functions, war reparation meetings, and rebuilding. Then Zuko had vanished and her life became more politics, public functions, civil service, and a country's upkeep.
She'd welcomed the distractions; always running forward. Silence held the whispers of the past, of horrors she dare not contemplate.
But no one can run forever.
