Genre: Scenery
Rating: Gen
Summary: Mai finds a place where no one else is.
The edge of the skyscraper isn't really made to keep people from falling, but people aren't meant to be up here anyways. Not like that ever stops Mai. Strong winds whip the ends of her hair around, but Ty Lee's braids are tightly fastened to her scalp and the parts that hang off don't do much more than bat at the back of her neck. Her jacket is securely zipped up.
She likes being up here. No one else ever is, and the sound of the city below is drowned out by the wind. It's a fantastic place to sit and think. Plus it reminds her of Zuko.
She walks over to sit just before the lip of the roof. The drop down is dizzying, and there's that little annoying voice in the back of her head wondering what it would be like to jump, never mind that she doesn't actually want to die, thank you. It's an exhilarating feeling, and familiar. She remembers Zuko talking about what it was like to stand on the lip and try to figure out if he wanted to let the wind topple him over and wonders if this was anything like it. Probably not. She doubted that little voice could be remedied with antidepressants.
Her phone pings with a text, but with how windy it is up here she doesn't dare take out her phone. Still, it means that she doesn't have much longer up here. There's a rope over a side she's not sitting at and an open window that led into an empty office in Phoenix Co. She's been using that route for ages, and sometimes she thinks that Ozai might know. But anyways. It was time to go, she thought.
With a final look over the edge, she made her way over to the setup and prepared to reenter society.
And this is the last flash fiction for 2021! See y'all next year!