Well whaddya know, you got this before floranna got her help_haiti fic after all. Bad Fish.
She stared at the letter so long her eyes stopped seeing it.
Messenger ships crossed paths with Azula’s ship from time to time, but Mai never paid attention to them. If it was important, Azula wouldn’t let her see it anyway. She never sent letters to her family. She never opened the ones her family sent her.
Now she was reading that her family was dead, that a bunch of Earth Kingdom rebel bandits had...
The Earth Kingdom had fallen to Azula.
Her family had fallen to the Earth Kingdom.
She was going home, finally.
Home would be empty when she got there.
The words in the message were measured and precise. She was glad they were. She was.
There were few places on the ship where she could be alone, and cry and scream where no one could hear her, but she knew every one. Azula would never intrude on her misery.
But Zuko didn’t give her the same courtesy. She didn’t know if the was glad of it or not.
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The Omashu Earth Kingdom resistance succeeds in killing Mai’s family (but not her)
Date: 2010-02-12 06:41 am (UTC)She stared at the letter so long her eyes stopped seeing it.
Messenger ships crossed paths with Azula’s ship from time to time, but Mai never paid attention to them. If it was important, Azula wouldn’t let her see it anyway. She never sent letters to her family. She never opened the ones her family sent her.
Now she was reading that her family was dead, that a bunch of Earth Kingdom rebel bandits had...
The Earth Kingdom had fallen to Azula.
Her family had fallen to the Earth Kingdom.
She was going home, finally.
Home would be empty when she got there.
The words in the message were measured and precise. She was glad they were. She was.
There were few places on the ship where she could be alone, and cry and scream where no one could hear her, but she knew every one. Azula would never intrude on her misery.
But Zuko didn’t give her the same courtesy. She didn’t know if the was glad of it or not.
She didn’t know if she was supposed to be.