They ought to have never seen each other again. Kanna's father was wealthy and he was well on his way to bringing his family from the solidly middle-class world of his parents into the upper echelons of the Northern Water Tribe.
Pakku's father had died during the last Fire Nation attack, when he had been only a baby. Without any relatives or great skills with handicrafts to rely on and unwilling to marry again, his mother had used some very unwomanly tactics in order to keep food on the table during Pakku's younger years.
At fourteen he had been taking the fishing boat out by himself for over a year, but no one had forgotten that Tupaarnaq used to do all the fishing (and even some hunting) herself and that meant her son would never be properly respectable, whatever his waterbending skill.
Kanna and Pakku would never have seen each other again, if Ullori hadn't taken a fancy to him. Since her parents would not allow her to travel the city alone and Yugoda's waterbending skill meant that she was spending more and more time at the healing huts, Kanna was usually the one Ullori brought along to visit Pakku.
