Authors note 5/24/06 : I don't own Avatar, but i wish i did. Anyway I haven't updated in like two months, two causes for that. School, and sickness. Mostly school with finals kicking my ass. DAMIT!

Ok now on with the story

Kerry

Part 3: Dinner

The dinning hall of the ship was full of many soldiers and other fellow crew members chatting loud to one another as they ate their food. Yet soon as Rose was as lead in to the dinning hall by Iroh the whole room fell quite, which made Rose feel uneasy. As she pasted each table the men whispered and pointed at her, but after a few moments as Iroh got them to the table where Zuko was seated the room were just as loud as it had been moments before. The table was in back of the room with only Zuko there and already eating his dinner. Iroh sat her down at end of the table with himself in the middle between her and Zuko. A few seconds and two servants came out of nowhere and placed two steaming bowls of the calamari curry in front of Iroh and Rose.

She quickly looked over at Iroh and Zuko who were quietly eating their meals, then looked down at her curry, which looked like a brownish red stew on top of white rice. I guess it has to be good. Rose leaned over her bowl of curry taking in the smell of the food, which made her mouth water. She picked up her spoon taking a big bite and finding it very good, where it spicy but very good none the less.

“How’s your curry Rose?” Iroh asked.

She lifted her head up and smiled, “Very good, thank you.”

Iroh smiled back at her, and then turned to Zuko who was pushing what he had left in his bowl around. “And you Zuko how is your curry?”

“Good,” He answered not looking up from his curry as seemed to be deep in thought about something.

“Just good?” Iroh asked.

“Yep, just good,” He answered this time placing his spoon in his bowl and standing up. “Excuse me uncle, and um…Rose. I have some things I need to take care of.”

Before Iroh could say anything else Zuko had starting walking towards the door. Iroh let out a sigh, “I apogees for my nephews behavior.”

“It’s alright he probably does has something important to do like look for the Avatar as you mentioned before,” Rose said.

“Yes, I suppose that might be true,” Iroh lifted an eyebrow in her mention of the avatar

“Why does he need to find the Avatar?” Rose wondered. “I am mean from the stories my father told me about the Avatar he always said that he or she was the balance of the four nations, where his job was to make sure no one tribe was stronger than the other.”

“Well, many of things have changed from the times from which you’ve told about. The fire nation, where we are from are on a campaign to unite this world under one ruler my brother the fire lord,” Iroh informed her.

“Did the avatar do something wrong?”

“No, he is just someone who Zuko need for him to get the right to return home.”

Rose looked down. I wonder why he needs him to go home? She wanted to ask more, but by the look in Iroh’s eyes she knew it was too much to ask in only knowing him for a day.

A few minutes passed then Rose placing her spoon down as she had finished eating all of her dinner. “That was delish, now I am so full and manam Itired.”

“Rightfully so after the day you’ve had my dear,” Iroh said. “If you like I will have one of my guards take you to your room for the night if you like?”

“That sounds great,” Rose answered getting to her feet.

Iroh waved over a young man no older than twenty-five or so came over. He had tanned white skin with dark brown eyes hidden behind his black and red helmet. “This is Ryu, he’s one of my finest men,” Iroh introduced. The young man leaned over as Iroh whispered something to him. “He will take you to your room, so until later my dear I wish you a good night sleep.”

Rose nodded and followed the young guard out of the now very full dinning all out into the corridor. After a minute or two of walking Ryu stop at door and opened it. “Here we are,” He opened the door waiting for Rose to walk in. A bit puzzled Rose knew that this wasn’t the room she had been in before, but walked in anyways. The room was much larger than the one before. It had two small windows at the far side of the wall above the bed that had many red pillows on it. On the right side was large fire place with a roaring fire in it and at the left side of the room Rose saw a bathing room. “If you need me my lady I will just outside the door.”

As soon as the guard left her alone by shutting the door Rose walked to the bed to find her old cloth nicely foiled pile and next to them was red kimono dress with a note on top of it. It read:

I hope that this room is to your liking, and that this new dress fits.

Prince Zuko

PS. The dress was my uncle’s idea.

Rose smiled sitting down on the bed. That was nice of him. She laid out the bed and let out a sigh. This is so unreal why did this have to happen to me? I am nothing real special. Sighing again Rose got to her feet and went to the bathing room to find a bath already drawn for her. She touched it to feel it was warm she got undressed and got in. The water smelled of some type of flower that she could not identify.

After getting clean Rose put the robe that she had on and laid on top of the covers of the bed closing her eyes as sleep swashed over her.