A/N: Set during Sozin's Comet. Title from The Raven.
It's finally over, and here she is, helpless before us.
She screams again, vomiting blue flames. Katara looks away, as if seeing something indecent.
But I watch as Azula breaks down into sobs, remembering the toddler who couldn't get past the first syllable of my name, the little girl who was my first friend. I pay witness to this latest of Ozai's sins, and I promise myself that there will be no more.
And then we turn and walk away, something like moisture prickling the backs of my eyes in direct contradiction to the lightning still prickling within my body.