Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Tatsuo was waiting for her. Again. "People are going to start talking Lord Tatsuo."
"Only of how painstakingly slow our new government moves."
"I've put the paperwork through to reinstate your mining contract Tatsuo. The council is reviewing-"
"A true Fire Lord does not require approval-"
"Perhaps if you and your friends had not fought so hard to label me an illegitimate Fire Lord, such formalities wouldn't be required. Had you accepted my reign from the beginning, as Fire Lord Zuko had instructed, then you wouldn't now find yourself at the mercy of the very people you set against me."
