Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Too many thoughts, too many regrets. Things long buried and carefully ignored clawed their way to the surface and from her throat in anguished sobs.
Her mother's murder; the smell of her burnt flesh. The crack of Azula's lightning hitting Zuko and watching him fall, his body prone and lifeless like the last time she'd seen Jet. The weight of Aang's lifeless body in her trembling hands, cursing herself for not paying better attention to her healing lessons, and praying the oasis's water would be enough. Watching Aang fly away without her, again, just as her father had sailed away.
