"I want our daughter's name to be unique. I want it to mean something."
She watched Than and her sister-in-law quietly and systematically blow out the candles in their home, completely surrounding themselves in darkness. The Fire Nation soldiers were enforcing early curfew recently and they had heard rumors that some of their neighbors were taken away for any slight offense. Her husband decided not to take any chances.
She was there along with her family and watched in horror as ranks of Fire Nation soldiers entered their last place of sanctuary, in which there was no way to escape out of it. And so they lived in constant fear ever since, wondering what will happen to them next.
She hugged her little Hope closer, remembering the Avatar who gave her that name. She was the only reminder of him now; for she was beginning to accept the terrible fact that the Fire Nation did kill him… he would not abandon this city otherwise.
It was when Hope began to cry, that she allowed herself to let those thoughts and dreads for the future leave her mind, as she tended to her.