SHINY
Ty Lee didn't love dancing until she dances with Azula for the first time.
As a little girl, Ty Lee twirls and twirls with beautiful, shiny silk that she wishes were real fire.
She takes these boring dancing lessons that she does think are for pretty girls, but the prettiest girl gets to take firebending lessons. Ty Lee shines when she spins as a glittering blur of scarves and her dress and her swaying, graceful movements. But Azula is a blue supernova that is blinding in her glow.
Ty Lee watches her from the window, sitting with the sunshine warming her back.
Azula looks oddly like Ty Lee does when she dances, except there is so much more passion in her. The way she breathes, the way she steps, the way she shines; Azula loves firebending. Ty Lee does not think she loves dancing.
Ty Lee didn't love dancing until she dances with Azula until the first time.
"It's like firebending," Ty Lee whispers as she feels Azula begin to tense up. She knows the princess will flee if she doesn't succeed. "It's exactly like that."
Or they could really just sway and the lights at Katara and Aang's wedding would focus solely on them. Because they glow when they are together no matter how well they dance or how stunning Azula is surrounded by fire.
"I suppose it is," Azula says, shrugging it off as casual and easy as she finally falls into the steps that Ty Lee takes. "Where did you learn this bending dancing anyway?"
From watching you.
"Just figured it out one day," Ty Lee lies.
Azula doesn't bother asking for the truth as they sway and shimmer.
