During the summer of 100 AG, Yon Rha's mother ordered her son to buy food from the village market, as the tomato-carrots in his garden were too hard for her gums. While there, he suspected someone was stalking him. Unable to detect an imminent threat, he ventured further down the road that led back to his house until Zuko and Katara, who were seeking revenge for Kya's murder at his hands six years prior, ambushed him. Katara was on the verge of impaling him with a great quantity of waterbending-made icicles, but found herself unable to commit such a violent act after discovering the hollow human being that Yon Rha had become. She relinquished her need for revenge and walked away with Zuko, leaving Yon Rha to grovel and weep on the muddy road in the rain.