Disclaimer: Avatar the Last Airbender copyright Dante Dimartino, Brian Konietzko and Nickelodeon Studios.
Stagnant heat pressed against clammy skin; sweat beaded at her forehead, trapped between the wrinkles fear carved into her flesh. Wide eyes followed the blue tendrils streaking across the sky, stalking unwary prey.
Once, that deadly light had pointed its sharp claws at her heart and found Zuko's instead.
His flesh carried the scar, though she'd been marked too. Years later and her wound still festered, feeding off her guilt and paranoia. Had Azula miscalculated that day, or had she truly intended fratricide? Now another possibility surfaced. Perhaps a more sinister force squatting within Azula had made a preemptive strike.
