Katara eyed the bottles and nodded. "I saw him, and he said exactly what I thought he would, what he should have. He was hurt that I was with someone, that I hadn't waited. He would have waited, and the truth is, I know him: he would have. He doesn't think that I love him as much as he loves me. And even though he didn't say it, I could see the hurt in his eyes: he'll be hurting a long time."

She choked back a sob. "I don't...I keep thinking when we get put through all of these situations, we would finally be together. The ship captured him and kept him from us, the Nightmare King was attacking him, I saw him shot...they were all really hard things, and they all were heavy burdens to take. But I thought, after all that, wed be together, that the whole reason for having all of that happen way because we would finally be together. And then they podded him, twice."

She looked at her hands. "Why did it do that to us? What was the point of it all, to do this to us?"