Embers of Healing

by clove7031

The war ended a year ago, and Azula's trying to cope with her mental breakdown. Takes place after The Promise and The Search comics. If you haven't read them, the story might confuse you. So I suggest you read them first. For those of you who have read the Avatar comics, read on!

POROLOUGE

"….I am sorry I didn't love you enough…"

We all stand, watching my mother get her face back from the Mother of Faces. My mother….how strange those words feel on my tongue. She left me ten years ago, and now she just wants to come right back into my life? She left me to become a monster. She left me to let me go crazy. Crazy, I went crazy….how long have I been crazy? I look down in the pool of water beneath my feet. I see her then, my old mother, not the new, clueless one. "Azula, you really think that I don't love you? Of course I do. I love you and Zuko the same. You never were a monster, Azula. You were my precious daughter…I love you Azula…I do…." She says. She is lying! She's got to be lying! She never loved me, she always loved little Zuzu….only Father loved me…..suddenly it's too much. She turned my mind against me, and she…she…she can't love me! I feel the tears running down my cheeks, and I do the only thing I can do at this point: I run.