how should it go?

"I love you, too, my dear." Kanna exhales a shaky breath. "I'd never forgive myself if you don't... if you left without knowing that."

Katara doesn't miss her grandmother's change of phrase. Kanna's unspoken words are a truth, an ice in her veins Katara has tried so very hard to ignore.

This might be goodbye.

("To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear." - Stephen Levine. A Katara-centric companion piece to "Forgotten Language.")