Folding her arms on the railing, she fixes him a look. “I think you know me better than that,” she retorts. Even if he doesn’t know her true reasons, he had spent the better part of a year chasing her, analyzing her, watching for her every move along with Aang, that he would have a good idea how she thinks.

And he would know that marrying him would give her a chance to help people. Help the people of the world rebuild, help his nation learn to become part of the world...help him through it all.

And she never turns her back on people who need her.