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Words
Azula

Azula had heard those words before as a child.

They floated across the room, like a poisonous perfume.
Rushed over plush tatamis, soaked though the crimson tapestry.
They torn through cloth, cut past skin, struck and resonated through her bones.
Words that found her though she was hidden in the darkened corner of a darkened room.

Words spoken with the same absolute and chilling defiance.
Words she was not suppose to hear
she heard again

"I love Zuko more than I fear you." Mother had said to father
"I love Zuko more that I fear you." Mai says now to her

And for a moment her breath catches in her chest. Her heart explodes, her mind screams

You were suppose to love me too.
You are suppose to love me more.