Flash Fire

by CuteCat213

Chapter 1: It's sometime, a year into his banishment, that Zuko gets his last piece of mail. Chapter 2: The royal family is Fire, and fire- Chapter 3: Zuko's scar marks the people around him as much as it marks him. Chapter 4: At thirteen, Zuko's voice doesn't sound like a child's. (Flash fic almost-drabbles about Zuko.)

2. Chapter 2: Burns

Azula burns cold. Like ice-burn. Like lightning.

Which means Father should burn cold, too. Because lightning.

(But he doesn't. Zuko knows he doesn't, Zuko knows—)

Father burns hot, like—

(Hothothot against his face hot burning—)

Father burns hot.

Zuko's not sure he burns at all.

(Except all the times he does, burns burns burns down to ashes until there's nothing left to burn.)

Zuko burns.