Looking into the fire I remember my past. As the candle sways back and forth in rhythm with the gentle night breeze coming in from the windows I see my mistakes. The gentle breeze grazes the back of my neck sending shivers down my back and I flash back and all I can see is a blood red sky and myself with the eyes the immense power. I don't see the eyes of immense power all I see are the eyes of immense terror. I remember the battle with Ozai; I remember how I almost lost control. The small flame, dancing its way across the wall of my room, wakes me from my memory and I see a shadow going down the hall.
I get up and follow the fleeting shadow as it stays just out of the candles light. It leads me out of the house to the patio and I look back into the house wondering if this is right but in my mind the shadow isn't a foe but neither is it a friend. As I step out to the patio I look down and I start to cry. My heart can no longer take the burden of my mistakes. I left them. I abandoned my people. I abandoned Rena. I betrayed them all.
Rena. She was the light of my life. We did everything together. We played, we trained, we ate, we fought, and we made up. She was the reason I woke up in the morning and the reason I trained so hard, I promised I would always be with her that I would always protect her. I failed on both accounts and that is the biggest mistake of my life. She loved me with all her heart. She was there when I got my tattoos, she was there when I declared the Avatar, she cried with me when they said I had to leave. She was even there the night I left. Encouraging me, loving me through it all and I still left. I betrayed my own family.
The candle light casts a soft warm glow on the patio wrapping me in the sorrow of my memories. Suddenly the little flame was out and the night reclaimed what my little space my candle had illuminated. As the night settles back in I walk back to the beach looking up at the shining moon and remember Yue and her sacrifice. I smile a sad smile of loss and happiness. The waves wash up on the beach the soft sound of the waves, with the cool sand beneath my feet, I think of me people. I think of Rena and her beautiful innocent face. The shadow appears standing next to me and then as suddenly as I recognize it, it disappears in the moonlight. In its place is an orange cloak. I pick it up and I start to cry. My candle drops from my hand and silently is taken away by the waves of the vast empty ocean.