The smoke had barely cleared despite the fires being out for much of the night. The inhabitants of the village knew that they had the Avatar and his friends to thank for extinguishing them and were glad for it.

Rebuilding had begun in earnest, neighbor helping neighbor, wood being brought in from the small forest, even the little ones lending a hand. The Kyoshi warriors were at the center of the process, hauling water, supplying nails, repairing roofs. They had been fortunate: their training building had been spared.

Suki told her girls to make sure that their families where safe before dividing up work among them. Suki's parents and younger sister had coped fine and had shooed her away to help those that had been less fortunate.

There was an old man who lived by himself near the edge of the village who needed some helping fixing his roof so she had headed over to see what assistance she could give.

Suki was just entering his storage shed full of tools behind the house when....