Night fell like a curtain on the world, the extras took their spots behind it. The prima diva stepped forward as the spotlight fell upon her. It trickled and then poured through the bars to light her pale face. It was smeared with dirt and filth but as the light fell upon her it seemed to melt. As she opened her eyes they burned.
A true diva is not marred by the external, only truly lit by the internal.
A queen is neither hampered by shackles, nor contained by bars.
Azula stands in her cell, looking through her bars at the night sky, through the bars. The filth covered red of her lips were suddenly ripped open in a smile, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
"What was that?" An extra says behind her. Futility incarnate, a flesh covered void.
"How I wonder what you are..." A flash of flesh, shredded cloth like streams, a wavering of the candle's flame, the snap of vertebrae.
"Up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky" The muffled jingle of the expired guard's keys.
"When the blazing sun is gone, when he nothing shines upon," The sizzle of the hallway torch as it is extinguished. The sound of many boots as guards rush to her cell.
"Then you show your little light" A crisp snap of fingers. A tiny flame blossoms at fingertips.
"Twinkle Twinkle all the night" Flames explode forth, like a dam unleashed. The screams of guards.
"Then the traveller in the dark" A flurry of soft foot pads quickly dart through the shadows.
"Thanks you for your tiny spark" A flash of fire leaps into a gaping mouth as a guard breathes to call the alarm.
"He could not see which way to go." Another torch dies in the already bleak and shadow riddled prison. The darkness begins to constrict and suffocate.
"In the dark blue sky you keep, and often through the my curtains peeps" The veil of a guard's hat falls across a pale filthy face as a pale specter garbed in tatters. A phantom war and woe walks through the high stone wall, stepping over the charred rubble vomited by the gaping hole.
"For you never shut your eye, till the sun is in the sky." A whip of flames immolates a foolish guard as he approaches from behind. None shall lay their flesh upon the ghastly queen.
"As your bright and tiny spark, Lights the Traveller in the dark" The alarm bells ring out from the prison as guards scramble and message hawks take wing. Eyes watch in horror as the dark specter disappears into the dark forest, taken into the shadows like a wayward child.
"Though I know not what you are"
A superior in a tower roars "What you MEAN she just WALKED OUT! No one just WALKS OUT!"
"Twinkle Twinkle little star" The monsters in the dark eye the girl, all alone. An easy snack they think.
"Twinkle Twinkle little star How I wonder what you are" A flash of light and creatures begin to drop to the forest floor. The stench of charred flesh and fur blooms.
"Up above the world so high Like a diamond in the sky" Cruel eyes look up as the freezing smile curls ever wider. The predators beat a hasty retreat deciding to find something else to eat.
"Twinlke Twinkle little star..." Sharp pearly teeth make a menacing grin, even in the dark. A mark of madness and evil.
"How I wonder what you are." A terrible laugh tears through the forest, chills to the bone.
A whispers so soft it is almost not to be heard, "How I wonder what you are..."