"Are you all ready for bed?" Lady Ursa asked her six-year-old son Prince Zuko.
The young boy quietly nodded looking down at his feet. He was wearing his pair of red silk pajamas and holding his baby blanket. Zuko's father, Ozai, claimed his son was too old to still have his baby blanket; Zuko only brought it out of hiding when he was really upset since he risked his father finding out.
"What's wrong baby?" Ursa inquired, settling next to her yonug son on his over sized bed.
"Why am I such a failure?" tears streamed down the young prince's face.
"Don't say things like that," Ursa directed her son shocked at his words, but then softened, "What happened to make you say that?".
"Azula made fun of me in front of Mai, Ty-Lee, and Lu-Ten today," Zuko said quietly trying to hold back tears.
"What did she say?" The Fire-Lady gently pulled her son in for a firm hug.
"Azula and her friends were playing by the fountain since Lu-Ten was ordered by Uncle to watch us, then Azula got up and yelled 'Zuzu peed his bed last night, he's such a baby'. Then they all laughed at me, I had to hide until dinner time." Zuko pushed back a tear.
Ursa looked at her son sympathetically, "Did Lu-Ten laugh?"
"No, he is a good cousin." Zuko rubbed another tear from his eye with the corner of his well-loved blanket, "Why do I have to be such a failure. I am six, why do I still wet the bed like a baby, and why is my little sister is a better fire-bender? I can't even make a good flame," the young prince buried his face in the thick woolen fabric his blanket, too ashamed to look at his mother.
"It's alright. You can't help it, your bladder is still trying to keep up with how much the rest of you has grown. I know you use the squat-toilet every-night before you go to bed like you are supposed to. I know you are trying and well as you can. If it doesn't get better soon, I can call the doctor and he might have some medicine that could help you."
"It only happens when I have nightmares," Zuko said softly.
"I know dear, hopefully the nightmares will stop," Ursa whispered, "and abour the fire-bending you are still young, if you keep practicing you will become just as good as Azula."
"Azula is better at everything," the young prince sighed.
"She isn't better at everything, animals do not like your sister at all, but they adore you."
As if to prove her point the royal family's Siamese cat pounced on Zuko's bed and started rubbing and purring against the him.
"Miao-Miao doesn't do that for anyone expect you." Urasa smiles watching the slinky cat snuggle next to her son.
The firelady pulled bed covers over her son. She gave Zuko a light kiss on his forehead, "Goodnight angel, I love you and I will never stop being proud of you,"
"I love you too mommy," Zuko said softly as he started to drift off to sleep lulled by Miao-Miao's soft purring.