But the creature had more to say. Now that he met a happy family and seen and a beautiful woman, he could not bear to live alone. He wanted to give and receive care, tenderness, love.
He asked Sokka to make a female creature to be his wife. He promised that they would live far away, in a wild, empty land, where they would harm nobody.
"I demand it of you as a right." asked the creature.
Sokka was appalled by the idea.
"Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world?" asked Sokka.
"Oh! My creator, make me happy! I am malicious because I am miserable. If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." replied the creature. "Have a care, I will work at your destruction. You shall curse the hour of your birth!"
With great effort, the creature calmed down.
"Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from misery. What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate, do not deny my request!"
At last, Sokka agreed to make a monster wife for the creature, on one condition.
"Leave the Earth Kingdom forever, and every other place in the neighborhood of man." said Sokka.
Delighted, the creature promised, and bounded away down the mountainside. Sokka watched him go, with a heavy heart. His mind was in a whirl. Should he keep his promise, or should he kill himself?
"Begin your work. When you are ready I shall appear." told the creature.
At home, the next day, he could hardly speak. The others were worried about him. But to Sokka they seemed like ghosts in a dream. Only his new task was real.