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It was really Ursa who had been crueler. She had been the woman who pulled the strings on everything, and she had been the catalyst for everyone's downfall except her own. She was good at that.

He had loved her though, just as much as she had loved him-if not more. He had loved her enough to spare her life-though he wished he had killed her, because knowing she was out there made him sick. When she left, she had laughed and said: "You'll see."

When the war was over, it wasn't Ozai's mistakes that cursed him, but his wife.