A short chapter, but hopefully, it says all it needs to...
Disclaimer: Don't own the series, don't own Iroh, and thus,I am unhappy. (sighs)
2. Anger
"What is that!" the division commander demanded, seeing the breach blossom with a raging inferno.
"Gone!" A soldier, his green uniform scorched, his eyes wide with terror in his blackened face, almost barreled into him, shrieking, "They're gone! They're all gone!"
"Sir!" One of his lookouts, positioned on a great block of stone above, "The two regiments you sent into the breach to support the counter-attack - they're not there!"
"What? That's impossible!"
"Sir, they're not there!"
'Those bastards - I was right, it wasn't a diversion!' "How many?"
"… "
"How many are there, dammit!"
"One, sir…"
It's not justice! It's not right! Why did you take him? Why did you take him and not me?