Falling for the Enemy (Sun and Moon Book 1)

Chapter 53 - Snowstorm

Outside, snow whirls through the air and lashes against the windows, but inside we are encased in silence. Winter is almost over, but the gales are nowhere close to slowing. Hila says they'll last for a few months still.

I don't mind.

I'm still not entirely recovered from the sickness, and I couldn't leave anyway. Not until the baby comes. Erga seems certain that it will be a girl, and a powerful bender. I hope so, but I've learned not to entirely trust Erga. She's a little crazy sometimes. But I don't mind.

I'm not really sure what to think about this- about having a baby. I don't know if I'm ready, and even then...I never expected this.

It didn't even occur to me- not once.

And now that it's happening, I have no idea what to do. And what's worse, even once she's born, I'll have nowhere to go.

It's late winter- the comet has already come. Either the war is over or it isn't, Aang is dead or not, and the fate of the world has already been decided. And I am no longer a part of that world. We don't get any outsiders here, so there is no news. And there won't be until the passes clear, maybe not even then. Most people sail around our island. From the maps I've seen, we're a couple of islands over from Kyoshi Island, and the Southern Air Temple in the other direction.

But we're the only civilization here. Erga's mother and their village came here on a ship, near the start of the Hundred Year War. Here they are safe.

And so too, here I am safe, and so will my daughter be.

I probably won't leave. I've been staying with Erga's daughter, Hila and her husband, Tok, helping however I can with the tavern. If they'll let me, I'll stay. It's not like I have anywhere else to go.

I can't return to the Southern Water Tribe, not with a baby and everyone thinking I'm dead. It's better this way, anyway. The girl I was before is dead, or may as well be. I am nothing like her. And that's the worst part- that knowledge.

I don't even remember how to be her. I don't remember who she is. Was. Whatever. And Zuko- I don't even want to think about how he fits into the world now. There is so much that I don't know.

So much that I don't want to know. Because what I don't know can't hurt me.

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Poor Katara- oops I mean Kiri- she's so lost!! But 0.o a daughter.... hmmmm... ;)

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