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glass_icarusScrapping the current draft of the Azula fic as it needs a total rewrite, but I think this bit stands on its own. (Also goddamn, I need an Azula icon. *g*)
title: appetite
fandom: A:TLA
rating: G; no warnings.
She devours knowledge the way lightning strikes: quickly, and heedless of any obstacles in her path. The day she learns to call it down is the day she feels the sky itself expanding within her, burning ice-cold and endless, a perfect blue.
She looks up to see her father's brilliant smile, but Uncle Iroh has a faint crease in his brow. "Fire is life, too, Azula," he tells her afterward, "and life is not only hunger."
Azula smiles and nods, but she has the most irritating feeling that she has no idea what he's talking about. At least, looking at Zuko, it's apparent that her brother doesn't know either.
Later, she sneaks out with Mai and Ty Lee for a celebratory drink, and in the haze of shared alcohol and warmth that follows, Azula decides that Uncle Iroh must be wrong, his mind confused by the loss of Lu Ten. What is life for, if not to taste and savor and swallow whole?
title: appetite
fandom: A:TLA
rating: G; no warnings.
She devours knowledge the way lightning strikes: quickly, and heedless of any obstacles in her path. The day she learns to call it down is the day she feels the sky itself expanding within her, burning ice-cold and endless, a perfect blue.
She looks up to see her father's brilliant smile, but Uncle Iroh has a faint crease in his brow. "Fire is life, too, Azula," he tells her afterward, "and life is not only hunger."
Azula smiles and nods, but she has the most irritating feeling that she has no idea what he's talking about. At least, looking at Zuko, it's apparent that her brother doesn't know either.
Later, she sneaks out with Mai and Ty Lee for a celebratory drink, and in the haze of shared alcohol and warmth that follows, Azula decides that Uncle Iroh must be wrong, his mind confused by the loss of Lu Ten. What is life for, if not to taste and savor and swallow whole?
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