As the now elderly Aang rode on Appa, he noticed a young man and woman who were looking at antiques together. They pointed to 1, smiled at each other, and kissed. More memories came back to Aang as he saw himself and Katara right there kissing, but he shook his head and he saw the people again. He only turned away to hold on to the jewelry box and make sure Appa was heading for the cemetery.
Meanwhile The people of the Opera House were sleeping silently into the night. All but 1 person! Katara just lay in her bed thinking about Zuko. She was too disturbed by what he had said to her at the masquerade. She couldn't figure out what he planned to do with her and she wondered when it would happen. Katara realized that she needed to talk to a lost friend of hers.
With those thoughts in her head, she got out of the bed revealing the night outfit she had worn when the Firebender had first captured her. She silently walked to the door and opened it to reveal a sleeping Aang in his old airbending clothes (from when she first found him) who had stayed to guard her door. He was leaning against a pole! Katara gently touched his cheek and quietly snuck past him.
She then walked downstairs and met with a man whom would take her to the cemetery. She gave the man 4 gold pieces and while he prepared the carriage, but as he was getting ready, a fireball connected to the back of his head and he fell unconscious.
Katara came back to the carriage dressed in a long shoulder sleeved black gown that trailed behind her and a black cloak was draped over her shoulders with the hood down. Her long, wavy, hair was down with black hair loopies and she clutched a bouquet of roses. She was also wearing black gem earrings and her mother's necklace still hung around her neck.
She got into the carriage, unaware that the man driving the carriage was Zuko.
"To my mother's grave please." she asked
The man whipped the horses into action and they sped off into the night. Suddenly Aang awoke with a jolt and ran into Katara's room to find her bed empty. He then ran to the window to see the carriage pull away with Katara in it. He ran out just as the man whom was supposed to take Katara to the cemetery was just regaining consciousness.
"Where did they go?" he demanded quickly
"Who? What?" the man asked
"The waterbender and the other man. Where did they go?" Aang was frantic
"To the cemetery!" the man replied tiredly
Aang called for Appa on his bison whistle and Appa came down. Aang hopped onto Appa and headed to the cemetery.
Meanwhile Katara was thinking and singing in her head as the carriage rolled on
In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me
And speaks my name
Just then, they arrived at the cemetery and Katara left the carriage as the man rode off and walked into the big, black, open gates of the cemetery. She walked in, no tears, just sorrow on her beautiful face.
"Mother, I miss you so much and now is the time that I really need you. So please, if you can hear me, answer my prayer." Katara whispered. She began to sing
You were once my 1 companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and mother
Then my world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seems if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could
Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle
She walked past old and new graves searching, in her opinion, for the best 1.
Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die
Wishing you were somehow here again
The tears were now freely flowing on Katara's face as she remembered the good times that she had with her mother
Knowing we must say good bye
Try to forgive
Teach me to live
Give me the strength to try
She reached a huge sculpture of light blue ice shaped into house-like grave with stairs leading up to it.
No more memories no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
She carefully sat down in the snow, not caring that her legs might freeze or she could have easily waterbended to help herself as she sang the last of her prayer
Help me say good bye
Help me say good bye
At the very top of Katara's mother's grave was a waterbending symbol and underneath it were the words:
Kya of the Water Tribe
Wife, Mother, Friend,
