a thought from my mom, re: Ardis

( about going through her house, sorting things and shutting it down )

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She's right; that would feel horribly uncomfortable and intrusive. I mean, there are some rooms in Ardis's house that I am quite familiar with, because they were the public rooms -- the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, the den, the guest bedroom -- but even in those places, I did not go poking around her closets and boxes and cabinets. And I never went into her bedroom, and hardly ever down to her basement.

And now somebody has to go through all those places and open all her cabinets and boxes and figure out what to do with all her possessions. We are not sure what all Ardis owned, let alone what she wanted done with all of it.

I wonder if this is one source of the idea of haunted houses. Ardis is gone, but her home is not just suddenly open and empty; it is still hers, in a very real, emotional way. I am sure poking through it would feel like a violation, and that is the sort of thing that could lead people to think of vengeful spirits.

[Fic] "What You Wish For" -- Avatar: TLA/Enchanted Forest Chronicles

This is another prequel piece to the Avatar/Enchanted Forest fusion that I am not writing. Katara is nine in the first section and eleven in the second, so it ends three years before the main story starts.

Katara and Ursa: families, loss, and compassion. (Also laundry.)

( The War of Secret Flames: What You Wish For )

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That was really kind of random. I was not expecting Ursa to be involved in Katara's backstory at all, but at least now I know what became of her after she had to leave Veritand in a rush.