21st of July
Fire Lord Taishi 25
Year of the Sun
Eleven hours after Noon
Fire Lord Taishi 9
Year of the Dragon
Midday
Dear Diary,
The healer I have seen tells me my child shall be a bender!
I am so excited and nervous...it seems with each pregnancy I experience something new. I've been blessed with a boy and a girl and now a bender...the first bender in our family! I suppose it must get it off my Father...he was a brilliant Fire-bender...
Now this leaves me with guessing the gender of my little baby...Lin is hoping for another girl I think. It's strange...most men wish for sons. When I asked Lin he just smiled and said that he was content with Chen...
Honestly though you should see him play with Kari and Chen! He acts like a child himself not a Grand Vizier! Still it makes me happy...
Personally I think it's a girl. A very damanding one because the little madam keeps kicking me when I'm trying to sleep! I've also began to puzzle over names again...Lin is of no use on the subject...I am favouring the name Maeko...after the old Fire Queen who ruled during the war five-hundred years ago. Apparently she was very fearsome in battle...but also warm-hearted.
I must go...Chen has just cut his knee...
My stomach flutters when I read that entrance...it's like a window into my mothers mind. It fascinates me to read her diary...although it's infuriating...how could Father go from being so laid back and happy to what he is now? I know her death affected him but really...he should have remembered about us!
I am fine with change but I don't like it happening in people.
Anyway I found Mileia...
She seemed angry...not angry at me but angry at everyone. She was reluctant to tell me the truth but I found it out anyway.
Bei Fong wanted something she wasn't willing to give...Mielia said it was awful the way he acted...trying to seem romantic when really it made her skin crawl.
Mielia sent him away pretty quickly...although I don't know how long she can keep doing that! I mean they are married...it isn't going to change...she can't deny him forever! I curse her Aunt! Mielia is backed into a cadge from which there is no escape...her spirit will be broken if she doesn't get out soon!
I hope I never end up like her...I won't...I mean lying in bed with a man I cannot stand? No...there will be no such fate for me.
Mielia is still awfully sea-sick. She was never any good on boats.
Lee has got me something for my birthday. He won't tell me what it is! I threatened to burn him but he laughed and jumped over my head and ran...alas running is not my strong point...trying to out run an airbender is pure stupidity, still I'll find out tommorow.
I can't believe it's an hour until I turn sixteen!
It makes me feel sad...I'm leaving childhood behind. I feel strangely empty at that thought...for here on end I'm in the world alone...I wish Kari were here...and Chen...they would make me feel happy. All I have is a sick grumpy friend and a hyperactive airbender.
Still...Lee is a good friend...I like him...he's funny and smart...and he likes me...He likes me for the stubborn ignorant girl I am...
And Mielia will always be with me.
Still theres one person I really wish for...I wonder if she's watching me now...
Mother...if you're watching...I miss you.
I can't wait for Friday! I saw a clip of Sozin and Roku...yay! It's really helped me map out how things are going to go! Also next chapter is good...Lee's present isn't what Maeko expects...also BIG forshadowing in this chapter if you look close enough.
Anyway I've mapped out ages for Maeko.
First book- finishes when she turns eighteen...apart from the epilogue when she's twenty.
Second book- Starts when she's 25 and ends when she's 32 (three years after Aangs birth)
Third book- Starts when she's 33 and ends when she's 41...lets say the ending is dramatic.