Failure
"Like this." Ty Lee swung down from her sitting position on the branch to hang from her knees.
Azula leaned against the trunk and observed; it looked extremely easy.
Mai called up from the ground, "You'll break your neck."
"No, she won't. Stop being such a downer," Ty Lee snapped, and Azula crawled across the branch.
Mai sighed and corrected herself: "Maybe she'll just break her leg. Optimistic enough for you?"
"I will not break anything," Azula said, aligning herself. "This is easy. If she can do it, I can."
She swings down, and does not break anything. Until she starts to fall, and Mai waits, and Ty Lee lunges out to stop Azula from breaking her neck or leg, and Ty Lee hits the ground.
Crash. Yelp.
Azula looked down at the girl who just rescued her, unimpressed. She turned to Mai while still dangling from the tree.
"You were wrong. Ty Lee fell and broke a limb. Ha."
Ty Lee does not know why she does this kind of thing for Azula.
Something about how she makes her feel so much happier than usual, even when she is biting on her lip to hold back her tears of pain.
