Sokka was beginning to worry about Katara. Not because there was anything wrong with her, but because everything seemed so right. After they found the burnt patch of Earth, she was the one to make Aang feel better. Then when they got to the village that needed help, she was the one there to tell Aang that he could be the bridge between the spirit world and the real world, while Sokka had her doubts. Above all, Sokka is worried that the loss of their mother's necklace is weighing down on Katara more than she wants to let on. But until her sister tells her so, Sokka doesn't want to remind her of the loss.

Later while they watch Aang try to talk to the spirit by the center building, she focuses her worry on Aang rather than her sister. As soon as the actual spirit shows up and starts to hurt Aang, Sokka can no longer heed the villagers requests and she exits the building.

"Hei Bai, over here!" She yells before she throws her boomerang at the spirit. Aang yells at her to go back, but instead she yells back. "We'll fight him together, Aang." Before she can hear what Aang was going to say, she is taken by the Hei Bai.

"Aang!" Sokka yells when she sees the airbender. "Over here! Help!"

"Hang on, Sokka!" The Avatar tried to pull her hand out to free her, but the spirit suddenly fades, taking Sokka with it.

While Sokka is trapped wherever she ended up, she thinks. As far as she can tell there is no one else around her, so she is free to say what she feels without fear of anyone over hearing.

"I don't understand why I went to fight the spirit." She admits. "It is not as if I could've done anything. I don't even understand why I have come along on this journey. To protect Katara? She can protect herself. I keep thinking that she's going to have a melt down because she lost the necklace, but she doesn't even seem to care. She has other bigger things to focus on I guess."

Sokka takes a deep breathe. "Why do I keep fighting? Why should I? Is it even my place to do so?" She pauses again, the words in her mouth feeling unfamiliar. "Why do I think that?"

The sound of silence is her only answer.

Sokka sits there trying to collect all her thoughts again. She thinks of Katara. She would never tell Katara to stop fighting. But Katara is different from her. Katara can waterbend. And on top of that Katara is the second born daughter of Hakoda. There's less of a chance she'd be used for an arranged marriage. Her water bending talents make her more than just a bride. But there's also little chance Sokka would ever be used for an arranged marriage. "Even if the warriors ever came back, they all have wives and families already. There's no people in the Southern Water Tribe for me to marry." She pauses. "Not that I even want to marry. I'm not sure I would want to have a family knowing that it could be taken away from me so easily. Even with the Avatar back, it might take a long time to actually defeat the Fire Nation."

Sokka huffed and tried to get back to her original train of thought. Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors fought. But they had trained for a long time to fight. They were probably smart enough to know not to get into a fight with a spirit. They were truly warriors. Sokka couldn't help but wonder what their parents had been like. Had they wanted their girls to fight? Had they been proud that their girls decided to take that path with their lives? Did their parents wish that they had been born boys? "Am I right? Does Dad really wish I was a boy? Does he wish I was a better daughter, like Katara?"

Sokka sighed. There weren't gonna be any answers in this pitch black.

Finally she made a decision. "There's not point wondering what he wants. I might as well do what I can to help end this war, and then I can ask him after that." She paused for a second. "I think any dad would be proud to have a war hero as a daughter."

After what felt like a long time, Sokka sees a light and follows it. "Sokka!" She hears her sister say before she's embraced by the water bender.

"What happened?"

"You were trapped in the Spirit World for 24 hours!" Katara explained.

"Well it was pretty boring for a mythical place." Katara rolls her eyes at her comment. Sokka overhears the village leader saying he would like to repay the Avatar for what he did. It doesn't take a second though before Sokka says "You could give us some supplies, and some money." Katara reprimands her, but Sokka is determined to get them what they need. The leader agrees to help them prepare for their journey, and then Aang reveals what the next part of their journey will be.

They're headed to an island in the Fire Nation.