That night, we found ourselves in a private booth of the Ember Island Theater Company. Everybody filed in with smiles on their faces; Toph, Katara, and Aang were in front of Suki, Sokka, Zuko, and me. For some reason, Aang made a big deal about sitting next to Katara, so much so that a blush crept up his neck.

"Why are we sitting in the nosebleed section?" Toph complained. "My feet can't see a thing from up here."

"Don't worry," Katara comforts her. "I'll tell your feet what's happening."

The lights dim and the curtain rises, reminding me of the plays we put on at my school. Of course, they were much more technologically advanced that this one. I pull some candy out of my bag and pass it around as the dialogue starts.

The play opens with a guy and a young woman in a boat in the arctic, which I assume are Sokka and Katara. Of course, Sokka's gasping and pointing help this inference. Katara's character speaks first.

"Sokka, my only brother, we constantly roam these icy South Pole seas, and yet never do we find anything fulfilling."

Sokka's character speaks next: "All I want is a full feeling in my stomach. I'm starving!"

The entire audience laughs at the lame attempt at a joke.

"Is food the only thing on your mind?" Actor-Katara asks.

"Well, I'm trying to get it out of my mind and into my mouth. I'm starving!" Well I found Actor-Sokka's catch phrase of the night. Sokka was evidently angry about it.

"This is pathetic!" he whisper-yelled. "My jokes are way funnier than this!"

Toph laughed. "I think he's got you pegged."

Actor-Katara rises to say her next line. "Every day the world awaits a beacon to guide us, yet none appears! Still, we cannot give up hope, for hope is all we have. And we must never relinquish it, even unto our dying breath!" The actress breaks down in stage sobs.

The four of us in the back row stifle our giggles.

"Well, that's just silly," Katara grumbles. "I don't sound like that."

"Oh man," I gasp. "This writer's a genius!"

Suddenly, the stage lights up and the actors begin their dialogue again.

"There appears to be someone frozen in ice," Actor-Katara recites. "Perhaps for a hundred years! But who? Who is the boy in the iceberg?"

A cardboard iceberg floats by with a rocking boy-shape inside. These are the finest special effects? I thought.

Aang leans forward to see his character's appearance. Actor-Katara karate chops the iceberg shape and, in a flash of stage lights, a bald-headed girl appears.

"Who are you, frozen boy?" Actor-Katara asks the 'frozen boy,' who is obviously a woman.

"I'm the Avatar, silly!" the young woman says, dancing across the stage. "I'm here to spread joy and fun!"

"Wait," Aang asks our group. "Is that a woman playing me?"

Suddenly, a Chinese Dragon shaped thing painted like Appa appears behind the cast onstage. Actor-Katara jumps back in fake fright.

"An Air Bender! My heart is so full of hope, that it's making me tear bend!" The actor breaks down in stage sobs again, hugging the 'Avatar.'

Actor-Sokka joins his cast mate. "My stomach is so empty, that it's making me tear bend! I need meat!" And he breaks down in tears as well.

Actor-Avatar points in the distance. "But wait! Is that a platter of meaty dumplings?"

"Where, where?"

Actor-Avatar giggles loudly. "Did I mention that I'm an incurable prankster?"

Aang looks about ready to blow a fuse. "I don't do that! That's not what I'm like! And I'm not a woman!"

Toph laughs again. "Oh, they nailed you, Twinkle Toes!"