Of course Sun had no intention to walk into Katara so soon again and instead headed outside to the bison. She approached him carefully not to disturb him and then knelt before him. Sun petted his giant head and he answered making a happy noise.
When she attempted to leave Appa licked her from bottom to top. Covered in bison saliva she went to look for Katara. Still dripping she found her.
The girl was angrily chopping some unfortunate crop.
"Uhm, can I help?", Sun asked.
"I don't think so.", came the blunt reply.
"Because you don't trust me?"
"Maybe, tell me, why should I trust you?"
"Hm, I don't have the slightest idea. But look at it this way: If I'm here you can watch what I'm doing."
"You may have a point."
Happily Sun joint the still grumpy Water Tribe girl. To lighten the mood she started to talk to her,
"Water bending is quite useful in cooking, isn't it?"
"How do you know I'm a water bender?"
"I.. kind of have a feeling for people. And you feel like the opposite of the fire benders I knew."
"Fire benders?"
"The Sun Warriors. They raised me."
"You're not one of them?"
"No, actually not. My mother fled to them when she was pregnant.", Sun stopped for a moment in her movements, she seemed to suppress tears. Then she added, "Sorry, usually I try not to … talk about her."
"She died?"
"Hmhm, how do you know?"
"Mine died too when the Fire Nation attacked our village."
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"You said your mother fled to them, what did she flee from? The Fire Nation too?"
"Part yes, part no, but not as you think. Actually my mother was a fire nation noble, even the current Fire Lord wanted her to be his wife."
"Really?"
"Yes, but she told him no. And then my father, uhm, happened."
"Happened?"
"Well, you can't say he came. He saw here and simply appeared next to her. She immediately fell for him and after a few months of being in love, ta daa...", she gestured towards her and continued, "so, the other people back in the Fire Nation threw her out because she was not married and she fled. She made it to the Sun Warriors but she was already too exhausted to survive, well, me, when she arrived there."
"Oh, I'm sorry, I should not have asked."
"It is okay, really. I can't bring her back and from time to time I feel guilt for causing her death, feel like I killed her, but it made me who I am. If I were to kill myself because I caused her to die I would make her death senseless."
"What did your father did about it? Couldn't he just marry her?", that caused the other girl to burst out into laughter,
"No, not really. My father is not someone to marry for mortals, beside he is already married to an immortal."
"Immortal?"
"Yes. Some kind of nymph, I think. But I never got to know her better, he just mentioned being married."
"You know him?"
"Yes, he is a great Dad, for his abilities, I think. He is always watching over me at days."
"Really? Where is he?"
Sun simply pointed at the sun and looked at Katara. The Water Tribe girl did not get it. Sun's eyes narrowed her brows gesturing suggesting.
Not believing Katara said, "No, you don't try to tell me..."
"Yes, I do. My father's name is Helios. Can you feel him smile?"
"You're joking."
"Nope."
"Where would you know it from?"
"Once from himself in my dreams, then again and again from the Sun Warriors. They had some kind of Prophecy from their forefathers that told them about me, and of course my mother told them too."
Katara took a step back. Then she asked, "Does this make you have any special, uhm, abilities?"
"I don't know, but I think we should get on with cooking."