Xion only bites her lip, hard, when she sees the written message. She'll miss Suki, her teacher, a girl -- a woman -- to whom she owes so much ... but her thoughts rest with Sokka. What he must be going through. What he must be feeling.
He's been there for her so, so many times in all her years here. It's time she returned the favor.
If he doesn't want company, he can tell her to leave and she'll go. But she wants to try. Has to try.
When she finds him, gets to the house, he's in the middle of burning that mattress. And the memories slam into her like an ocean breaker, just a little chilling, of the last time she saw something so ritualistically burned. Standing on the road outside house 5 watching Asch and Luke and the house that had once been a home burning. In tribute, in mourning, in recognition that everything once beloved had gone.
It's so very similar.
She approaches, slowly, not coming in too close too quickly. But her eyes move from the mattress to him, and she can't keep the sadness off her face. ]
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Xion only bites her lip, hard, when she sees the written message. She'll miss Suki, her teacher, a girl -- a woman -- to whom she owes so much ... but her thoughts rest with Sokka. What he must be going through. What he must be feeling.
He's been there for her so, so many times in all her years here. It's time she returned the favor.
If he doesn't want company, he can tell her to leave and she'll go. But she wants to try. Has to try.
When she finds him, gets to the house, he's in the middle of burning that mattress. And the memories slam into her like an ocean breaker, just a little chilling, of the last time she saw something so ritualistically burned. Standing on the road outside house 5 watching Asch and Luke and the house that had once been a home burning. In tribute, in mourning, in recognition that everything once beloved had gone.
It's so very similar.
She approaches, slowly, not coming in too close too quickly. But her eyes move from the mattress to him, and she can't keep the sadness off her face. ]
Sokka.