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Fractured Minds
Chapter 8: Ashfall

The Fire Nation, Royal palace; early morning.

"Where exactly are you from?" His question had no visible effect on his Uncle's friend. That's her sixth steak. How can she stomach that much blood?

Frustratingly he saw her wave his question off. "Here and there. And blood is a dietary requirement in the aftermath of extreme use of my abilities." This too was frustrating for the fire lord. Her propensity to read minds, her claims against doing that weren't very reassuring for him.

"You won't be able to help Azula." He said in the hopes of dissuading her of her fool's errand. He should have known it wouldn't work.

"You're interfering again, fire lord."

"Azula deserves to be locked up." He sighed and shifted in his seat, trying to get comfortable for the ensuing argument. "There's no point in reasoning with you, you'll never understand, could never, understand what it was like to have a malevolent spirit for a sister."

"She's manipulative, controlling, cunning, blood thirsty, terrifying, excessively violent, and doesn't possess a single ounce of empathy for others." She paused to burn his astonished and gobsmacked expression into her memory. "Trust me I do understand."

It took him a moment to snap out of his speechlessness as he watched her devour another steak. That makes seven.

"Are you always eating like this?" He asked curiously. He was still a little distrustful of Raven despite learning why she'd collapsed four days ago.

"Not very often. After today I doubt I will eat much of anything because I won't need too." She answered him automatically. He really did remind her of Robin. But back when the team was just starting, back when Robin made bad judgment calls.

"I was wondering, how do you plan on helping Azula?" Up until then Mai had been silently enjoying the show. It wasn't every day that Zuko was needled relentlessly by someone who wasn't her.

"Its difficult to say," Raven took a sip of tea attempting to stall for a few more seconds. "I'll need to taste her insanity with my empathy. That will be my starting point for her treatment."

"Why not just use your healing ability?" The fire lady would be lying if she said she wasn't confused that Raven wouldn't just start with that.

"That is not an option. Physical aliments yes, an unstable mind, no. If I did just waltz in and wave my hand in front of her, curing her instantly...she won't learn anything. Whose to say that she won't fall back into the pit of insanity again? She needs to face the problems that pushed her that far in the first place." While the two royals wrapped their minds around her answer, she grabbed another steak from the tray that sat in front of her and started in on it.

The fire lady could detect a dark undercurrent in Raven's tone as she spoke. I wonder if she's experienced insanity on the same level as Azula. Before she could voice her question, the dinning hall's doors burst open and a guard captain hurried into the room.

She bowed low and didn't wait for permission to speak. "A mayday from Obsidian Island arrived by messenger hawk five minutes ago. The report is of a unique creature ransacking the villages and towns there. 28 people have been killed, 16 of them were soldiers and 12 were non-military firebenders."

Almost before the captain had finished speaking, the fire lord was already at the doors, issuing orders to the guards at the entrance of the dinning hall, "Find General Shen and tell him to ready four hundred of his best men, they'll be flying for Obsidian immediately. Their orders are to bring the creature down by any means necessary. Captain Rojo," The captain was before the fire lord in a flash. "Draft a message to Admiral Kozen, she's to take her fleet to Obsidian and evacuate the citizens. Then place the island under quarantine until whatever this thing is, has been neutralized."

'A unique creature? Plasmus or Monsieur Mallah. It could be either of them.' The sheer anticipation in Courage's tone was expected.

'Either way, a lot more people are going to die.' The green cloaked emote's enthusiasm deflated a bit, her mistress sounded bone weary. They'd be accompanying General Shen and Admiral Kozen to Obsidian.

Almost as if he was reading her mind, Zuko turned to face the occupants of the room, but his attention was focused solely on her. "Your assistance won't be necessary, Raven. I have the situation well in hand. Besides I believe your reason for traveling to the Fire Nation was to help my sister."

"If you're sure?" She asked having no desire to force the issue and if she were honest; she didn't have the energy to expend even after four days of rest.

"Quite. General Shen will take you to Crescent Isles before he continues to Obsidian." With that he turned and proceeded out the door.

Crescent Isles, Port Shiver; three hours later.

Her first experience with the asylum staff left much to be desired by Raven. The man that met her and General Shen at the port was as repulsive as he was rotund. His voice was like gravel and it was headache inducing, "Do ya honestly s'pect me to believe that this 'Raven' woman was sent by the Fire Lord to treat his bat shit sis?

The surly general shoved the fire lord's letter at the doctor as an answer. As soon as the letter was no longer in his possession, the general spun on his heel and marched past Raven. Heading directly for his waiting airship.

While the asylum doctor was engrossed with the letter, Raven decided to familiarize herself with, what she believed, was going to be her place of residence for some time; Crescent Isles. There was vegetation everywhere she looked, trees, flowers, and vines hanging off of the houses that dotted the mountain side. What she didn't see was the Asylum itself. But she could feel it, as wave upon wave of emotions crashed against the shield she used to temper her empathy; lest she be a liability in a fight. Desolation, rage, anger, hatred, apathy, pain, uncertainty, and terror were the strongest of them that threatened to drown her in their ocean.

"Yer already lookin' pretty green there and despite what this says," He shakes the letter in front of her face. "I'd bet you never even set foot in a madhouse 'fore today."

She jerked back from his proximity and growled low in her throat, feeling very much like a cornered animal. He laughed, at her reaction and then tucked the letter into an inner pocket. "Easy little girl. Don't mean to offend ya. And that was the fire lord's imperial seal and orders are orders. Come on and we'll get cha settled in."

For such a plump individual he was fairly swift and it was then that she saw the narrow path in between two of the houses to their left that he was heading toward. She followed silently in his wake hoping to avoid any conversation. She'd never taken such an immense dislike to a person within such a short time before, not even Terra inspired this much malcontent; not even after she betrayed the Titans to Slade.

Her hopes for avoiding conversation were dashed fifteen minutes later as her guide piped up with, "I don't know what ya think yer gonna be doing with the princess but whatever it is, it ain't happening soon. Sun touched as she is, her royal highness suffered one of her episodes yesterday and will be unavailable 'til she's calmed some."

She gave him a thoroughly un-amused looked and gestured for him to continue.

'He's good at lying but not good enough.' Intelligence was smug as she deciphered the man's lies. 'And this one he's got down to a finite science.'

Raven nodded in agreement.'Tell the others that we're going on the unofficial tour tonight.'

That brought the emote up short. 'Are you serious? I thought we decided...'

'You said it yourself, he's lying and I don't have a very good feeling about him. He reminds me of Dr. Leads from Arkham.'

At this any further protestation on Intelligence's part died swiftly. Dr. Leads was responsible for one of the worst mass patient escapes from the Gotham based asylum in its entire history. So much so that Batman requested their help because Dr. Light had been transferred to Gotham and Batman wanted to meet his apprentice's team. To say that that had been an eye opening experience is an understatement. Though they were leery of meeting another member of the Justice League. In the end they gained a potential ally.

"There it is; Ashfall." His voice was entirely too smug as he grabbed a unlit torch from a barrel that was full of them. "Course this place was cleared out by a couple 'o lavabenders after Roku bit the dust. Fire Lord Sozin wanted a place to put firebenders that were Sun touched with them never coming in direct contact with the sun. It took forty years into Fire Lord Azulon's reign to get the caldera and the lava chamber to a point so folks could live inside 'ere."

After he got the torch lit he gestured for her to follow him down the stairway set into the side of the caldera. "Only the staff for the madhouse and stationed guards are allowed into Ashfall. The other islanders are family of the staff, they grow food and other necessary materials to keep this place..."

Raven was barely paying attention to his prattling as she directed her focus to the shadows far below them. More specifically the asylum. The entire structure was black with an arched roof that was eerily reminiscent of Japanese architecture. Two massive dragon statues sat to either side of the building's entrance, almost like they stood guard. The sheer number of windows was staggering and what was worse was the fact that none of them had bars to prevent the patients from escaping.

"Huh, you did pretty well for yer first time on the stairs. Most docs are horribly coddled and collapse half way down." She gave him a flat look. "Right, yer sharing with the new blood that we got on staff 'bout two years ago. Least til I have a chat with the boss and if he's feeling generous maybe you'll get a place of your own."

With that he held the torch up and led her toward a cluster of buildings on the far side of the asylum. They passed several buildings in various states of repair before stopping in front of a small two story house that looked better than the others that they passed.

As her guide brought his hand up to knock, the door swings open and Raven saw the person she'd be housemates with. The woman wasn't very tall but strangely, had fire filled dark blue eyes and unnaturally pale skin. Long black hair framed the woman's heart shaped face that was currently wearing the meanest scowl that she had ever seen.

"Jang I thought I told you to stay the hell away from me."

"Still playing hard ta get eh?" At that the woman made to slam the door in his face but he stopped her. "Now, now, there's som'un whose 'ere to fix her royal highness."

Her eyes are purple...and she's hot. Damn...deep breaths Zen.

"Jang you can go now." Her tone was filled with ice and she glared at Jang's retreating back. Neither one of them spoke until they couldn't see the light of his torch anymore.

"Jang's an ass. I doubt he even introduced me. I'm Zen Ji its nice to meet you." Zen said while stepping aside to allow Raven to enter.

"It's Raven." She said as soon as she was inside the house.

"That's an unusual name. Are you from somewhere in the Earth Kingdom?"

With her back to Zen, she sighed and closed her eyes. "Somewhere yes. You seem very nice and I do find you attractive but I'm still trying to move past my ex."

She heard Zen wince. "That obvious then."

"I'm good with nuance." A laugh sounded behind her and before she knew it Zen was in front of her with a wide grin stretched across her face.

"You'd have to be. I'm as smooth as they come. But I understand some people leave their marks on you. So friends?"

"Friends."

"Alright enough excitement for now. Follow me and we'll get you settled. Is Jang bringing you, your stuff later or...?" Zen asked as she made her way down the hall to a flight of stairs.

"Or am I carrying it in a dimensional space that happens to be located in my head." Raven saw Zen falter on the top step and almost topple backwards but at the last second she managed to correct her balance. Zen's eyes seemed to bore into Raven's.

"When you know more about me that will make a lot more sense."

"I'll take your word for it." Zen shrugged and led her to a black and red door half way down the second floor's hallway.

The room was a lot bigger than she was expecting. It must be half of the entire second floor. The walls were dark red with black hardwood floors. There were a couple of light gray rugs spread throughout. A massive bed was positioned in between two just as massive windows, curtains hung to either side of the windows. Other than the bed and rugs, the room had a vanity, wardrobe, and sitting area with two comfy arm chairs and a low table in between them.

"I was just about to start on dinner when you and Jang arrived, I'll call you down when its ready. If you need anything don't hesitate to ask. With that she turned and exited the room but paused just outside the door, "Oh and welcome to Crescent Isles."

'Azarath Metrion Zin- ompff' A blur of hot pink engulfed her as she materialized inside the library. Before she could do anything to retaliate another pink blur slammed into her from her other side.

'Told you I'd give you two hugs when you got here mistress.' A band of yellow energy peeled the two apart as Raven dragged herself up from the ground.

'Time to Rock 'N Roll!'

'Candy!' Not the least bit cowed by madam Snark the pink emote was busy zipping around the meeting room bursting with enthusiasm.

'Happy just watching you is making me tired.' At this the emote abruptly stopped in her tracks and hung upside down in the air, her cloak was an inch from the ground.

'Guess I got carried away.' Grumbling and snickering erupted around the room as the others heard Candy say this.

Once everyone settled down as one they intoned, 'Azarath Metrion Zinthos.'

Their soul detached from their body and the world shifted. When they used astral projection inanimate objects turned opaque and semi solid, colors were lighter shades, and her empathetic and psychic abilities were twice as potent.

Her tour would begin on the top floor and she'd work her way down. The first floors were plain and held the least number of patients. As she got nearer to the ground floor the rooms were a little different and more patients were in them. It was when she reached the ground floor that that wave of emotions from earlier hit her again; desolation, rage, anger, hatred, apathy, pain, uncertainty, and terror. She was drowning in them and it took all she had to fend them off until she felt the tugging. When she focused on it the emotions intensified turning her vision black.

Azula age 5

Perception in darkness was something that she was very familiar with and it was this familiarity that allowed her to hear the patter of rain. She opened her eyes slowly and found herself in a place she didn't recognize. She swept her eyes around the area hoping to determine where she was. There was nothing but rain and a black sky. Before she gave in to her frustrations a flare of bright red at the edge of her vision caught her attention.

As she moved in the direction of the red flares, she saw eight hazy figures standing around a flat stretch of ground, strategically positioned throughout the area and the two figures in the center of said area.

"Azula." The voice held a harsh edge and very little patience.

"Yes father." Her voice was a whisper among the rain, the voice of a child. Moving closer still the hazy figures were suddenly lit up by lightening as it snaked across the sky. What she saw stopped her cold. Azula looked no older than five. The same age that she was when the monks of Azarath began forcing her to lock her emotions away.

Azula shifted her stance and rapidly moved through a series of punches, kicks, and flips. But with each successive motion the flames were still only bright red. While Azula was focused intently on her movements, Raven saw her father's face contort as the flames burst forth. It wouldn't be long before he snapped. "My patience is wearing thin Azula! You will produce blue flames on your next try or I will fire whip you until nothing but black scorch marks remain on the paving stones in this courtyard."

Azula flinched and bit back a complaint. "Yes Father."

The princess halted her motion and took seven measured deep breaths, coaxing her fire chi back into order. On the seventh exhale bright azure flames spewed from her mouth executing a master level technique Dragon Breath. Azula held it for four seconds before her exhaustion overcame her. Prince Ozai rushed forward and scooped his precious daughter into his arms, a proud smile on his face. "Daddy's so proud of you. You're nothing like your mother or that weakling of a son of mine."

Azula age 7

The shadows crept in on Raven and momentarily turned the world dark once more. In the next moment she had to blink bright spots from her vision to bring the world back into focus. When her eyes adjusted to the light she found herself in a garden. One of the royal palace's gardens. There were too many gardens for her to narrow down which one it was but the one she found herself in; had a huge pond with turtle ducks swimming on the surface in a lazy circle.

"Princess I'm sorry. It will never happen again." The terror filled plea's source was a palace servant whose lungs were on fire as she ran through the garden. The servant was followed into the garden by Azula whom was a little older than she was previously.

"Oh you're sorry," A laugh rent the air as the princess pushed herself to run faster. "You'll be even sorrier when I set you on fire!"

At the other end of the garden, the servant pushed uselessly against the locked door. "Dead end for you. Ready for a lesson you won't soon forget?"

The servant girl was quivering where she stood, despite being seven years the princess's senior. The princess huffed petulantly at the servant and created a fire dagger in one hand. "You're suppose to say yes Princess or no Princess. Don't they teach you peasants any manners these days?"

"Yes Princess and no Princess." The servant couldn't believe that the princess's face could get even more irritated, it did.

"You're not supposed to answer rhetorical questions..." Azula sighed. "Both of those were rhetorical."

With that Azula closed the distance between them and was just about to touch the bright red dagger to the servant's skin when her arm was torn away from the other girl's skin. At this the servant collapsed to the ground in relief at being rescued, she hoped.

"Azula!"

"Yes mother." Her tone was pure innocence and honey.

"Don't you 'yes mother' me."

"She deserved it. She's the reason why I'm late for training with father." She's see what happens when I'm late every day and she makes promises she can't keep. The princess can't quite bring herself to voice those words but she knows her mother wouldn't believe her. She never believes me.

"And burning her is the solution? Maybe keep better track of the time." Here Lady Ursa paused and let out a frustrated sigh, "Go. Just go to your room. I'll be speaking with your father about this mark my words Azula."

Head held high and walking like every bit the princess that she is Azula left. Father will pretend to be angry and agree with you, but what he's really saying is that he's proud of me.

"Are you alright Shong?" Ursa's tone was gentle as she pulled the girl up from the ground. Unknowingly the two were being observed by Azula.

"Don't trouble yourself over me, milady. I'm f-fine. The princess is who you should worry for." She wasn't injured but she was shaking very badly, despite that Shong managed a winning smile that only felt a little forced.

"My own daughter has a monstrous side to her personality and its as bad as her grandfather's is. But right now I'm worried about you, a loyal servant, whose been scared half to death by one of my children." Her words were kind and helped still the tremors in Shong's body but for Azula hiding in the shadows, they cut like a fire dagger going straight to her heart; no one saw her tears as she ran for her room.

Azula age 13

Flashes of red and the sound of clanging metal drew Raven's attention and as a much older Azula came flying past her head, the garden was replaced with a flat expanse of stone.

A low hiss escaped Azula as she rolled to a stop on the ground in the training yard. My head feel's like its been split open.

"Your right side reflexes are still too slow." His reprimand did little to encourage the princess whom was making no effort to stand and address him.

"I understand father. Do you have time for another match or is Admiral Zhao hounding you for another war council meeting?" The steadiness in her voice betrayed nothing of the pain that she was in.

"No. Unfortunately I have granted that fool one more chance to convince me. He's been laboring under the delusion that he holds the key to the Northern water tribe's demise. I am tired of his repeated failures. If he presents a feasible plan in today's meeting I will assign him command of a fleet to finally take the North. Should he fail I may have to send someone who can get me results." The fire lord signaled to his guards and as he left he said, "When I return I want to see improvements in your reflexes on both sides."

The princess was on her feet faster than he could blink and bowed low. "Yes father."

As soon as his intimidating presence disappeared the princess's legs gave out and she hit the ground for the second time that day. But this time she didn't bother trying to quiet the grunts of pain. Every bone was sore and every muscle ached. She heaved a sigh as she watched the clouds drift by. All day every day its the same thing. Faster, stronger, hotter, higher, and repeat. Training. I wish Ty Lee was still here. If she was things would be a little more bearable.

Anything less than perfection on her part was dealt with harshly; intensive personal training sessions. When I break and its only a matter of time before I do, a lot of people are going to burn or die, I haven't decided yet. Perhaps I'll start with the cruel ones that make promises that they have no intention of keeping.

Azula age 14

CRACK

The world turned white as a bolt of lightning sailed through the air. Thunder echoing loudly around the semi-lit underground cavern. A kaleidoscope of emotion swirled through the air, as she saw a boy with arrow tattoos fall to the earth. Before he hit, a wave of water washed the scene away. Replacing it with another eerie scene that was all to familiar for Raven.

Azula lay, tossing and turning on a mattress mumbling about something.

"You can't be alive. I killed you. Zuzu wouldn't lie to me. You're not real. You're not real. You're not real." Azula's voice rose in pitch and oozed pure terror as the avatar appeared in her nightmares, alive.

"Father I didn't fail you. No, please no. Stop, its Zuko's fault he's-" A scream tore from her throat as tears streamed down her face.

The door to the room opened by an unseen Dai Lee agent as he saw the approach of the princess's friend. When the acrobat crossed the threshold, the door was shut. Ty Lee ran for Azula.

"Zula! Wake up its just a dream." There was no visible change in Azula. Slowly she reached out to rouse her thrashing friend. The moment her skin made contact with Azula, the princess grew unnaturally still.

"Zula tell me what's wrong."

As soon as Azula heard her speak the acrobat found herself being pulled down onto the bed and being squeezed to death. It must have been a bad one for her to react like this. The acrobat had to fight back a laugh as the situation dawned on her, the princess was latched on to her like she was a stuffed animal. But considering what she knew of Azula's life, it shouldn't have been that funny.

"I k-keep seeing the avatar's face as the lightning hits him etched in agony; I can still hear it, the crackling. He never goes a-away." Ty Lee didn't have to see Azula's face to know that the princess was crying, she felt the tears on her neck.

Night changed to day as several dozen figures surrounded the three of them. "I will deal with this myself. Leave us."

"But princess-" A blue fire ball slammed into the prison guard with enough force to knock him to the ground. Immediately the guards holding Mai released her and dragged their unfortunate comrade with them as they made themselves scarce.

"I should have expected this from you." Her voice was cold and dripping venom but beneath it all, was fear. But Mai wasn't as good at reading Azula as Ty Lee was.

"Tell me why," Nothing but silence hangs in the air after she says this. So she's lifts her head up and locks her gold eyes with Mai's amber ones. "why would you do this to me. You're not stupid surely you know the consequences..."

Mai's countenance shifts and she readies for the attack that is sure to follow Azula's whispers. But instead of flames Azula just glares.

Eyes narrowed to mere slits, Mai says, "I guess you just don't know people as well as you think you do." She watches Azula intently waiting for the right moment, when she see's it, and with a smirk on her lips, she goes in for the kill. "You miscalculated. I love Zuko more than I fear you."

In a haze of pain the princess falls to the ground. She barely heard herself telling the guards to lock Mai and Ty Lee away as Mai's words echoed all around her.

"You miscalculated, I love Zuko more than I fear you. You miscalculated. I love Zuko more. I pick Zuko. Zuko." Mai's words were like a rock covered fist to her face.

The crackling and heat of a wall of azure flame obscured the view of a figure on the throne. "None of them could be trusted. Sooner or later, they all would have betrayed me. Just like Mai and Ty Lee did."

"What a shame, you always had such beautiful hair."

"What are you doing here?"

"I didn't want to miss my daughter's coronation."

"Don't pretend to act proud. I know what you really think of me. You think I'm a monster."

"I think you're confused. All your life you used fear to control people. Like your friends Mai and Ty Lee.

"But what choice do I have. Trust is for fools. Fear is the reliable way. Even you fear me. Fear is all I know."

"No. I Love you, Azula. I do."

Before the apparition of her mother had finished speaking her lower lip started quivering and as her head sinks lower tears escape from behind closed eyes. Her knuckles pop as her grip on the brush turns them white. And when the pain begins to suffocate she throws it with all her might, hoping to toss away her pain as well. A rain of fractured mirror fragments fall around her. The shattering mirror is drowned out by her sobs as the pain intensifies.

A self satisfied smirk played across his scarred face as his smug voice carries across the empty courtyard, "No, lightening today. What's the matter afraid I'll redirect it?"

Psychotic laughter sounded and sent chills up both Zuko and Katara's spines, "Oh, I'll show you lightning."

The ominous static crackling is heard and the motions of her arms generate enormous trails of electrical sparks. There's a brief pause as a grin reminiscent of the Joker's crawls across Azula's face. The boom of thunder pierces the air.

Eyes wide Katara watched transfixed as the bolt of deadly energy raced for her heart. Suddenly, impossibly she watches Zuko intercept the bolt of light. "No!"

It hit's the tips of is fingers mid leap. A Blinding flash of light and Zuko crashes to the ground grunting in pain.

"Zuko!"

She'd never known water to burn before but as the water turns to ice, it does. She's helpless in the block of ice and watches as her opponent chains her hands together. Once the chains are secure she's shoved painfully into the metal grates of the canal. And for the first time she shivers but it doesn't register as blue-white rage explodes across her mind.

Blue fire spews from her mouth like it would a dragon's, she directs the flames into the air and at the ground, hoping to quell the helplessness, despair, confusion, shame, humiliation, pain, and rage surging within her; all that's left is the aching emptiness, that's always been there. With the last dregs of her energy spent she lands on her side, tears cascading, sobs being torn from her throat.

Both Katara and Zuko walk away from the pitiful sight. As they walked away neither heard her speak, "Why couldn't anyone love me? Why couldn't mother love me? I-I'm not a monster. I'm not a monster. Not a monster. A monster. Monster…"

The tugging sensation pulled Raven from the maelstrom of images and emotions into a world of dreamless sleep.

'I thought I told you not to damage her. And what did I say about taking it slow.'

'And I've told you that we don't have the time to play nice.' The bickering sounded oddly familiar to Raven but she was still too out of it to place it. 'Need I remind you for the thousandth time that without me you'd be dead.'

'Oh my apologies princess Void. I shan't forget my place again.'

Before princess Void could speak further a voice cut across them.

"Why does my head feel like its on fire?"

'Because someone thought that you should take the scenic route.' It was then that Raven shot bolt up right and launched herself into the air. She was in another garden but the grass was red and the water in the pond was black. There were red, black, and white flames everywhere she looked.

A whistle from below caught her attention and when she glanced in the direction of it she saw two armor clad figures staring up at her. 'Impressive but perhaps you could come down here and talk with us.'

With little choice in the matter Raven slowly lowered herself to the ground. About half way there she caught sight of her cloak and was shocked to see that it was white. With a wave of her hand the cloak flew through the air and attached itself to her as it settled on her shoulders her powers pulled the hood over her head. When she landed on the ground she turned to face the two soldiers standing to her left. Her suspicions were confirmed."You're Azula's sub-conscious."

The black and red armored Azula took several steps back and took a few deep breaths. 'Agni you sound like Mai. Rage won't like that at all.'

'Ignore this one. She's grumpy that Azula is still out of commission and that she has to fend off the invaders.' Unlike the other emote, the white armored one stepped closer to her. As the emote did, Raven saw how fragile and loose the armor was.

"I take it you're Affection then." Stiffly the emote nodded. Raven held up a hand to stop the emote from venturing even closer. "I'm Raven. I can't help you like this. A mind is dangerous especially when it doesn't belong to you."

'You came to help us but you can't, how in Agni does that make sense?' The emote was exasperated but Raven felt off about this whole situation.

'How did she pull us into her mind?' Raven's question was met with a lack luster shrug from Intelligence.

'Check back in a week. We're still processing Azula's memories just go along with it. There has to be a reason for our situation.' She wasn't happy about it but she knew better than to go against whatever brought her into Azula's mind.

'Mistress we need to-'

'Not now.' Her mood was soured immensely by the turn of events and she could not focus on more than one crisis at a time. Whatever her emotions wanted would have to wait for later.

"I will assist you with the subjugation of your mind. The imbalance that I felt inside that roller coaster ride from hell was the worst I've encountered before." Raven braced herself for the collision as Affection rushed at her. "However once you've found and freed Azula, the fight is yours and yours alone."

'What exactly do you plan on doing?'

Raven gently disentangled herself from the white emote and turned to face Azula's sub-conscious. "I have a palace to lay siege too. Untold rage with be unleashed upon whomever sits on the throne."

Both Affection and princess Void stared in disbelief as the white cloaked Raven walked up the steps that lead into the palace proper.