An alter with a cloaked statue

They saw a large stone altar with a life-sized statue stranding cloaked beside it in the middle of a dark-blue colored room. The same leave-no-wall-uncovered mindset applied here, it seemed, when it came to erotic portraits. As they examined the art, (Oh come now, you wouldn't do the same?) they noticed a few common features, aside from the nudity and obviously sexual nature. They had an abundance of older women, often with round or even plain breast-shaped objects and motherly figures looking after their young in the background. The altar also had four statues of mothers with children, wearing clothes of air-, water-, earth- and fire- nation origin. Zuko was about to suggest leaving, he had a feeling a room like this in the middle of nowhere with an alter in the middle might just be bad news, but before he could warn katara, what they thought was a statue beside the alter started moving and spoke in a feminine voice under her hood: "It'd be best if you stayed, Zuko and Katara."

Slowly the figure removed her hood, revealing a beautiful face.

She was older but still retained her beauty, with long blonde hair, blue eyes and fair skin. Her eyes flickering from one to the other and a smile formed on her face and grew. A smile filled with lust and desire.

"I know you both lost someone...someone very precious to you both." The old woman began to chuckle.

Both of them felt the urge to walk towards her, almost a physical shove from behind, and slowly approached.

"Both of you had your mothers taken from you." Said the woman, both Zuko and Katara nodded.

"Well, would you two like to have them back? I've got an offer that perhaps you'll see value in..."

Both nodded again. Katara began to imagine her mother hugging her close, Zuko began thinking of caring hands on his cheeks..phantom memories of days long passed when he didn't have the scar that defined his destiny for so long...

"I can bring them both back. All you two have to do is perform a very specific kind of ceremony on this here alter...I happen to know exactly how that's done." The woman smiled and patted the stone surface.

"What do we have to do?" Asked Katara, curiosity and doubtful hope welling up inside her.

Zuko gulped, looking at the alter and remembering old scrolls he used to peruse in his spare time...they had spoken of alerts in ceremonies, dark rituals in the night with fire tearing through the fabric of reality to bring back impossible things. Things that no sane fellow would try summoning, no matter the cost...

The woman merely smiled at Zuko's doubt and continued, "Well first, you two need to...."