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A stunning woman with waist length brown hair and beautiful blue eyes knelt down, gazing sadly into eyes as blue as her own.
"Mama, why are you sad?" the blue eyed chubby six year old asked, patting her mother's cheek.
Kya for that was what the woman's name was smiled at her extraordinarily perceptive daughter as she smoothed her child's hair back before pulling her fur lined hood up.
"Katara, I want you to promise me something."
The child tilted her head to one side blinked once then "Sure Mama, whatever you want"
"Promise me that you'll stay here whatever you may hear or see. Don't move from here till that ship goes quite a distance away and stay as silent as you can without making any noise whatsoever. Okay?"
The child nodded vigorously holding out her little finger which was clasped by her mother's much larger one. Maybe this was one of Mama's new games. Sokka was going to be so jealous.
The mother smiled as her vision misted over though she willed it such that the tears didn't fall. Kya removed her mother's necklace tying it around her daughter's neck.
The child though was confused and asked "Mama but you said that I'll get it only when I am older and when I can marry a prince like how you married Dad."
Kya still smiled "My little snowflake. You have a great destiny ahead of you child. Do what you have to when the time comes. I am proud of both you and your brother. Take care of your father and brother for me. The necklace is to remember me by, just know that I'll always be with you."
"Silly mummy you'll be with us always. Why should I forget you? People remember only if they forget." And was puzzled when her mother gave her a real tight hug and a kiss on her cheek before she got out from behind the huge pile of snow where they had been sitting and walked towards the mean man who was shouting.
"Are you the water-bender?" How dare that fellow shout at her mom? Dad was going to spank him later on. And why was he asking for her?
She saw her pretty mother stand straighter look the man in the eyes and say "Yes, I am."
Katara was confused. Why was Mom acting strange today? She'd just told a lie. Everyone knew that Water obeyed only her in their family. Mama had said that Tui and La had blessed her and that she should never lie.
Katara then saw the bad man give a mean smile then saw a great ball of fire come out of her Mom's back before she fell down into the snow.
Katara watched wide eyed as her mother fell down and didn't get up. The bad man who had hurt her mother laughed before boarding his huge ship and leaving
Katara though didn't move from her spot till the ship was quite far even though quite a few people were started coming from where they had been standing and many of them were crying. Mama will get up after she kept her promise. Why was Gran-gran crying though?
Katara then stumbled through the snow towards her mother. Mom was lying on the snow smiling, smiling like she did when they had once thrown snow balls at Dad and Sokka and then played hide and seek with them. Smiling like she had when she'd built a snow castle with her bending and had hugged her and said how proud she was of her and her gift.
"Mama!" little Katara cried shaking her mother's shoulder. "Wake up. I kept my promise. See. Lets play something else Mama. Come on, wake up." And hadn't understood till much later why everyone had cried harder when she'd said that "Mama! Mama…"
"Mama!" Katara shot up in her bed clutching the carved pendant on her necklace as she woke up from her nightmare of remembering the day her mother had died. She looked towards her brother's room and saw that he was sleeping.
She then went outside and took great gulps of air to settle her terror and saw that the moon was full and in the wind, what sounded like her mothers voice saying the same thing as her dreams for the past few weeks
'It is time…. To fulfill your destiny'