Note: A 50 Sentences Prompt that was never completed.
Prodigal Son Idiom
#13 – Death
He finds himself in front of the empty Jasmine Dragon, standing in the architectural shadow of what might have been a life if only he'd allowed it to be.
#44 – Heaven
"Father will be proud, Zuko."
#45 – Hell
Ozai does not love you, The old dragon thinks as he sits alone in the jail cell, wondering if things would have been different if only he'd had cruelty to say it.
31 – Home
But he's not like Uncle, and he can't be a man without a country anymore.
35 – Bonds
The light wooden tile is a heavy weight in his pocket.
#37 – Technology
Whatever was broken inside of him, Zuko hopes his father finds that it is fixed now (because he's never really been very good at repairing things, and he's so tired of trying.)
#25 – Devotion
Mai finds almost everything to be boring – except, Zuko learns with increasingly acute terror, for him.
#49 – Hair
It's almost long enough for a topknot, he notes, and fights the impulse to reach for a knife.
#46 – Sun
The only light in the chamber is the glint of the twin blades juxtaposed against his sister's throat.
#50 – Supernova
"It's okay," are the last words Iroh whispers as he embraces his nephew, so very glad that the words are finally true.