[She tucks a strand of hair behind her ear in a familiar gesture.] Well - we got to go home for a little while, but it was only a very little while. Zuko wanted to set out to look for his mother, but before he could do that we had to hammer out the details of the peace - and everyone was always very anxious to have Aang 'Be Seen.' We were practically run off our feet for the first few months... but eventually everything got hammered out. The Fire Nation colonists could stay in the Earth Kingdom if they'd swear allegiance to the Earth King - who we had to dig out from a circus, believe it or not. And then we had to set up an adviser we could trust so the Earth King wouldn't turn the Earth Kingdom into a circus... And that was all before the Fire Nation started sharing their technology with the rest of the world.

It was a very busy time - I kept wishing for when things were simpler and we could just beat up the people who were in the way instead of smiling at them.