Clearly it's not the view that Zuko holds. She's seen too many fragments of other worlds and too many ash statues to hold out much hope. And as much as she'd want his version to hold true, for the sake of all those lives, that's not a pretty picture either. Her nation thrown into disarray without her there to take the throne. The apparent attack on the palace could easily trigger more fighting. There was still her uncle, maybe, but a lot could happen in the time it took him to return home, and he'd have to give up the life he wanted to do it, and do it thinking she was dead.
No, she really doesn't want to think about that either.
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Clearly it's not the view that Zuko holds. She's seen too many fragments of other worlds and too many ash statues to hold out much hope. And as much as she'd want his version to hold true, for the sake of all those lives, that's not a pretty picture either. Her nation thrown into disarray without her there to take the throne. The apparent attack on the palace could easily trigger more fighting. There was still her uncle, maybe, but a lot could happen in the time it took him to return home, and he'd have to give up the life he wanted to do it, and do it thinking she was dead.
No, she really doesn't want to think about that either.