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The prince uncovered a large table in the Navigation room. There was a map of about four large continents, and smaller islands but that was about it.

"Um, is this your country?"

"No, this is the world." Iroh looked pleased. "There aren't many who can boast of having a map of the entire world!"

"Ok well there must be a mistake… 'cause there's the entire western world not there!" I pointed to the left side of the map, where the labeled Fire Nation was. "Or for that matter, the eastern world." My fingers slid off the large drawing.

"I know, um, do you have any extra paper or something to write with?" I looked around the room in the tower, above the deck of the ship.

"Here." The captain handed me some strange, thick paper and a charcoal pen. I looked at them oddly, then set to work drawing as good a replica of the world map as I could.

"There, does that look at all familiar to you?" I pointed, "This is America. Down there is Texas." I drew a little Texas shape around the general area it should be on a map.

The men all peered over my shoulders to get a better look at it. Zuko took the drawing, examined it, then handed it over to his captain.

"Do any of these places look familiar?"

The man squinted, turning the paper this way and that before finally shaking his head, baffled.

"Sorry Sir, I don't recognize one aspect of it, from any angle."

When I heard those words, my heart seemed to slow down and turn numb. I stared blankly at the men who all turned to look at me, then I slowly made my way out the door and onto the deck below. I walked in a daze toward one of the rails and just let the sea spray my face gently.

I heard a footstep behind me and let my head sink down onto my arms crossed over the rail. I couldn't cry, I wouldn't cry.

I'm such a big baby! Why do I have to cry? It's not like anything really horrible's happened. I'm just lost, I don't know where I am and no one seems to have heard of America that's all. I let out a ragged sigh, straightened up, then turned to see Prince Zuko standing behind me. He looked almost sorry for me a second, like he understood what was happening.

I smiled sadly, then murmured. "Well, since I don't seem to have a home anymore… would you um, mind if… I stayed here? On your ship?" I looked away from him, jabbing my fingernails into my clenched fists so I wouldn't cry.

"Of course." He nodded stiffly, "I can have my uncle show you a spare room. There aren't many, but he can find you one."

I glanced up momentarily. "Away from the rest of your crew?"

He smirked. "Yeah, I'm sure we could arrange that."

I smiled thankfully, then turned back to the sea and heard his footsteps walking away. I waited and watched the coastline of the Earth Kingdom recede as we continued to sail north. Supposedly following this so called 'Avatar.'

A few minutes later, Iroh came by and offered to show me to a spare room. We stopped at the medical room along the way so I could grab my stuff and wandered through a maze of corridors. I was so going to get lost in there. We finally came to a stop in front of a small (metal) door and Iroh pushed it open to reveal a small, but nice room.

"This will be your room for the time being. There's a nice comfy bed, washstand, and there's even a small washtub in this area." He pointed to a screened off area of the room. Really it was just a paper screen put in one of the corners, but hey it worked. "My own room and Prince Zuko's are down the hall a ways if you need anything. Three doors down to be exact." He smiled widely. I almost laughed at him; he was so funny, even when serious.

"Thank you so much, General Iroh. I don't know if I'll ever be able to repay y'all for everything you've done for me."

"Oh please, call me Iroh. Or Uncle Iroh if you prefer. I don't go by General anymore." He smiled kindly and winked at me.

I laughed, "Well thanks Iroh. You've been so kind."

Then Iroh bowed and close the door behind him as he left, and I turned to personalize my room a bit. I unpacked my clothes and put them under the washstand, put my makeup on top of it along with my hair supplies, and tucked my other appliances along with my backpack under the bed.

I started humming a song to myself, and allowed myself to do a few dance steps as I moved around the room, flowing gracefully from one place to the next, bending in an arc as I put something on the ground. This was how I let my emotions out, and relaxed.

After I'd placed everything in its' new home, I stood back and surveyed my work.

Well now what do I do… I took another few dance steps, then my eyes lit up. I'll go stretch or dance on the deck! No one was up there before, so they're probably not there now. I grinned to myself, grabbed my iPod, took off my jacket, and slipped on black warm up pants that were cut off at the knee. They used to be pants, but they shrunk so I cut them off and now they were almost capris. Aren't I so handy.

I opened my door softly, looked up and down the hall, and decided to try and retrace my steps with Iroh. Down this hall… was it right here? Or the next one? Eh I'll come back if it's wrong. Nope, right way. Left here, left again… one last left and there's the stairs to the deck!

"Hm hm hmm… ah here we are!" I decided to talk to myself for a bit.

I climbed the stairs and felt the wind of the ocean blow my hair across my face: I took a deep breath, inhaling the smell of the sea. Turning around, I chose to do my thing further back, toward the back of the ship. I didn't want everyone watching me if they did come up. So when I reached aft, the back end of the ship, I sat down, started my iPod on the Nickel Creek CD (Why Should The Fire Die?), and started stretching. (A/N: Having iTunes is convenient: you can look up samples of the songs! hint hint) Before long I was humming softly, then I started singing when I noticed there was no one around. The easiest for me to sing was "Jealous of the Moon" so I started with that one.

"Tryin' on a brand new dress, but you haven't worn the old one yet. You've come too far… to turn around now. You've given up the good fight. When you're as strong as anyone, you're back where you started from. I see you're back where you started from... Starin' down the stars, jealous of the moon! You wish you could fly… but you're stayin' where you are there's nothin' you can do… if you're too scared to try.

You drag your pretty head around, swearin you're gonna drown, with a beautiful sigh. In a river of lies! Starin' down the stars, jealous of the moon. You wish you could fly. But you're stayin' where you are there's nothin' you can do if you're too scared to try. Why don't you call me, I could save you! Together we'll find a god we can pray to, that'll take you by … the hand I hate to see a friend of mine. Laughin' out loud when she's cryin' inside! But you've got your pride…" I especially liked this song because of the melody in the second verse. I'm a sucker for melody.

After I finished stretching, I started with some steps from a ballet dance I'd learned. I couldn't really remember, but I made up for it with some little additions of my own. I smile slyly when "Scotch and Chocolate" started playing and decided to try a fouetté, which I'd always had a hard time with. Surprisingly, I pulled it off perfectly.

"Awesome!" I grinned like a maniac and started doing as many as I could as I spun faster and faster with the music, swinging my leg out and around pulling me into the turn. I threw in a couple other jumps, twists, and half steps and pretty soon I was creating an odd, spur of the moment dance because I pulled off a fouetté, but also because it took my mind off of everything else. Of course, the dance involved plenty of turns, until I struck a final pose breathing heavily.

"Phew! … Hah… ugh… haha, whew that was fun." I turned off the music, and turned to go back below deck and clean up when I suddenly spotted a group of twenty or so crew members who had all bunched against the walls of the Navigation room so I wouldn't see them. A few had huge grins plastered on their faces, while others' mouths hung open slightly, and my face flushed red when I knew they'd watched me dance.

Oh God no! How embarrassing! I looked away, hiding my face, and quickly ran around them as they cheered softly and clapped. I almost crashed into Iroh and Zuko as they were coming on deck and I stood still only long enough to let them exit the stairwell before I almost flew down them in my hurry to get away.