Reflection

[lady_azula]

Broken. Impossible! All the training! All that time plotting and scheming! It has all boiled to being here, by myself, losing every inch of edge that I have. NO! I refuse to believe it! I will not! I cannot sit, sobbing, fallen, losing everything to that, that peasant! It cannot be

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[waterfell]

Azula? What's happened?

(and why yes, this is lingering-hope-plotted!Mercury XD She therefore believes she's back in her world enjoying the loveliness that is Perfectverse -- and part of that is apparently being able to still communicate with Econtra friends.)

[lady_azula]

This...I'm...I lost. I lost everything, even my sanity and my friends.

I have nothing.

[waterfell]

You're wrong. You aren't just alone.

[lady_azula]

This...this premonition. It is troublesome. I've seen it in dreams, in passing, but it is here now, clearly. I see myself without Ty Lee, without Mai, and still fighting in vain for my father as I abandon everyone and battle Zuko and the water peasant one last time. I overcome Zuko but am defeated by the water peasant.

I've lost it all then. No friends, no trust, no family around except Zuko watching me coil in defeat.

It is horrifying. How can I not be alone at that instant?

[banishment]

Azula...

What are you talking about?

[lady_azula]

...

YOU.

I can't talk to you right now, Zuko. I've had a very upsetting dream in which you play part.

[banishment]

I--

Whatever it is I did in your dream, it was just that: a dream. It wasn't real, Azula.

[lady_azula]

Then why have I dreamed this before? Why do I see YOU and that peasant beating me and taking everything away from me?

[everhungrysage]

Azula? What's wrong?

[lady_azula]

I had a bad, bad premonition.

[savedthejerk]

Azula?

[lady_azula]

Is THIS what happens after I'm betrayed?! I turn into a maniac and get beaten so utterly I'm a gibbering mess?! IS IT?!

[savedthejerk]

...

I couldn't say, Azula.

I haven't seen you back home since the incident at Boiling Rock.

[lady_azula]

Hmph. It seems no one has. But apparently, I become to close to being Fire Lord and am beaten during my coronation. I also apparently become crazy.

Not a happy ending.

[spaceflyboy]

You haven't posted for a while so I figured I might just give a casual 'how are you?'. You know, good will and all that.

So how're you doin?

[lady_azula]

I've been training. I'll admit, that has a tendency to sap up most of my time. That, and I've been involved in other affairs as well, specifically involving a friend of mine.

I am well, though I wonder why you ask.

[spaceflyboy]

Cos you're my friend's sister? Might as well at least try to get along, I figure.