Day 285 [open]

[fireburn]

Who: Azula & anyone
Open: Open
When: Day 285
Where: Northern Bastion
What: Azula arrives in Bastion.
Format: bracket-action but happy to match
Warnings: n/a for now.

[Azula was angry. Whether or she actually believed that her world had been destroyed, blah blah blah was a different question entirely. It all sounded crazy (this whole world sounded crazy - maybe it was all just one giant hallucination and that's a terrifying thought), but more importantly she had better things to do. If this was some kind of spirit-world shenanigan, she wanted no part in it. She had been in the middle of something important, damn it.

Which is why, naturally, she gets herself quickly and fairly easily from the Skyway to Bastion. If anyone was capable of figuring it out, it was her. And when she's on a mission to get to the bottom of something, that drive can move mountains.

When she questions the person who told her about this "calamity" she doesn't get answers she wants and sets a tree on fire in retribution, but the action is...oddly taxing? And for the first time in her career she actually feels like it's difficult to firebend which angers her more, RIP patches of grass.

Since all of that is clearly getting her nowhere she proceeds to go question anyone who is around in the most tactful and personable way possible:]

You there! Tell me what is going on here immediately.

Comments

[fireburn]

Funny, I thought you thought that about everything I say.

[daughterofursa]

Not everything.

Almost everything. [Especially anything to do with Zuko.]

[fireburn]

That sounds a little paranoid.

[daughterofursa]

Are you trying to say it isn't true?

[fireburn]

Would it matter to you what I said?

[daughterofursa]

Well- maybe.

[fireburn]

Dependent on what?

[daughterofursa]

I'm not sure.

If you want to say something, just say it.

[fireburn]

Maybe I'll just wait until the time is right.

[daughterofursa]

[Because that's not ominous at all.]

... Right.

[fireburn]

[ :) ]

So what has happened in these four months you've been here?

[daughterofursa]

A lot.

[She's so descriptive.]

We've had some close calls, even if this is supposed to be the safest place around.

[fireburn]

They must have been pretty strong, for it to be a close call with you.

[it's not really delivered like a compliment, for all that it is phrased like one.]

[daughterofursa]

I-

[Wait, that's... not an insult?? Is she being sarcastic?]

I wasn't actually talking about fights.

[fireburn]

What were you talking about, then?

[daughterofursa]

...

There was the time the Bastion ran out of power and started sinking.

[fireburn]

Well, as you're still here, I take it you figured something out.

[daughterofursa]

Yeah. We managed.

[She's just the greatest at storytelling.]

[fireburn]

[....]

Great.

[daughterofursa]

Anything else you wanted to know?

[Because Zuko is awkward enough carrying on conversations with people who don't probably want her dead.]

[fireburn]

Seeing as how you're not exactly forthcoming with information and you don't really seem to want to talk, I will spare you the necessity in honor of our newly turned over leaf.

[daughterofursa]

...thanks. [She thinks?]

I'm sure I'll see you around. ... Try not to make trouble, all right?

[fireburn]

I won't make trouble.

[indignantly. also: she's not gonna forget how you ditched her, sis.]

I will "see you around."

[daughterofursa]

Right.

[Zuko gives her a flat look because Azula, you set a tree on fire.

...maybe she should go take care of that.]

[fireburn]

[enjoy :)))) ]