Act 2: Event post for Zuko. :>

[frog_kisses]

[Ringford was still wonderfully vivid in her dreams, and there, she was still a child. As she would have been had there not been war, and if the apocalypse hadn't occurred.

But it did, and it had, and Mercedes woke up. And once more, it wasn't where she had fallen asleep.]

N-Not again!

[Fortunately, her voice is soft enough that the boy next to

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[eupathetic]

[Zuko was in a rather similar bind, except he'd dreamed a dreamless dream, and instead awoke before becoming overwhelmed with confusion. The feeling was all too familiar, what with last time, and he wasn't quite in the mood for another strange happening.]

Nng . . .

[He takes a good, long look out the window, not knowing what in the world this piece of metal lump is, and it takes a moment before he notices the girl beside him. Which take another moment for his mind to register, for he was in fact next to a girl he'd never seen before. And for the lack of a better word:]

W-what?

[frog_kisses]

[Mercedes rights herself as well as possible, trying to look as confident and guarded as a little wingless fairy queen can in this situation. She hardly felt as if she had any sort of advantage for waking up first.]

I would ask the same.

[eupathetic]

[It seems the girl doesn't know any more about the situation than he does, so he straightens, taking another quick glance out at the window. Not again, not again.]

This is ridiculous.

[frog_kisses]

Yes, it is.

[She sighs and messes with the handle on the door, satisfied for the moment that this boy doesn't seem to have any ill intentions.]