008. Toy Fangs
"So, you don't see her as a monster?" asks Mai, touching her tea and finding, to her dismay, that it is still way too hot to drink. She needs to date a waterbender.
"No. Do you?" Ty Lee asks, smiling. They watch Azula from Lo and Li's porch with tea in their hands and Azula inside of herself in front of the waves.
"I see her as a bratty princess playing with her toy fangs," Mai says, shrugging when Ty Lee laughs. "That's what she is. She's stuck kind of somewhere between conquering Ba Sing Se and throwing a tantrum about eating her vegetables."
"That's treason," Ty Lee snaps angrily. Mai sees her angry so rarely.
"That's insulting the love of your life," Mai replies.
Ty Lee sighs because, "Yeah. She's that, but she can't be that, or maybe she can be, or, I don't know."
"Do you see her as part of your future?" Mai asks, now even more curious. It is a rare feeling for her, and she does not hate it.
"No, I don't," Ty Lee says.
"What?" bewilderedly asks Mai.
"I don't see her as part of my future because I see her as my future."