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Struck by inspiration when I should be doing my homework, I read a line from the story we're supposed to be analyzing and had to write. Enjoy!
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"About the truth, if you give it to a person, then he has power over you. And if someone gives it to you, then they have made themselves your slave. It is a strong magic. You can never take back." (Chaq Uxmal Paloquin)
The only truth Azula has ever spoken is when she says she always lies. An honest word has never slipped passed her red painted lips and in all likely hood never will. To speak truth, her father has always told her, is to give away power to another, and of course power is reserved for the royal. One from the Fire Lord's family, cannot give up power no matter how minor, it is dishonorable, and punishable. Watching the pathetic excuse for an Agni Kia and seeing her idiot brother burned had driven this home. Her brother had spoken the truth in a room full of generals. He'd given his power to them, and he'd been punished severally.
It was for this reason 'truth' was never spoken by any of the house of Sozin.
She looked down at the girl beside her, yet to wake even as the sun rose and warmed the blankets covering them both. The girl beside her couldn't have been more different in this way. She couldn't remember a time the acrobat had ever lied to her. Even with all her expertise in the field, and natural suspicion the fire bender had never detected the girl lying to her.
Low, unintelligible mumbling left the still sleeping girl, followed by three words that struck cords in the princess's heart. The girl in her arms never lied, so those words had to be truth by simple logic, but it wasn't possible. Her arm tightened around the acrobat, she had to be lying this time, but as sleep blurred gray eyes met her own any accusation of distrust she might have said left. It wasn't possible for the sleepy girl to lie.
With a low sigh she replied to the girl's sleep drunk words, "I love you too, Ty Lee."
The acidic taste of lies still hanging in her mouth from years of use twisted through her words, and even her ears could not tell if they were truth or lie.