Avatar // Betony // Part 1 of ?
Title: Betony
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: K
Word Count: 330
Summary: Ty Lee knows that the universe will do what it will do.
Other: For may_flyer's request for "Ty Lee; flirting with disaster" and fanfic100 #20 - Colorless. Companionish fic to Orchid. Language of Flowers ficverse. Also, I'm in love with colorblind!Ty Lee.
flirting with disaster
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Ty Lee knew things. Among them, how to touch the heels of her feet to the top of her head, many efficient and effective ways to stop bodies in motion, the way color creeps around the edge of her vision, so faint but stark against the almost-gray world around her.
Not how to quit, though. She did what she did when and because she was ready to. Neither would she ever want to know how to give up hope.
She regarded the shackles on her wrists and ankles, leaning back on the bed. In a quick motion, she took her left hand in her right and popped her thumb out of place. The joint cracked; she thought of chipmunk-chicken soup. Ty Lee slid her hand out of the shackle, popped her thumb back and repeated the process on her right hand.
There was no helping her ankles - Ty Lee's feet just didn't bend that way. She had tried it once, and spent two weeks on crutches.
Her eyes stung, her nose was stuffed and she assumed her face was blotchy. Maybe it wasn't; she couldn't check without a mirror and there was a first time for everything. Azula had looked so ... surprised, just before she closed her eyes.
The two of them had shared that - nothing surprised Azula, because she always expected the world to do as she told it. Ty Lee couldn't be surprised, because she expected nothing of the universe: it would do what it would do.
The secret about free will was that everyone had it, that you could never account for it, and that it was what made life ... life.
She supposed that if Zuko was going to execute her, he would have had it done already. Ty Lee let her lips curve upward as she pulled a pin that had been missed in the search out of her hair. She'd always wanted to learn how to pick locks.
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Rating: K
Word Count: 330
Summary: Ty Lee knows that the universe will do what it will do.
Other: For may_flyer's request for "Ty Lee; flirting with disaster" and fanfic100 #20 - Colorless. Companionish fic to Orchid. Language of Flowers ficverse. Also, I'm in love with colorblind!Ty Lee.
flirting with disaster
*
Ty Lee knew things. Among them, how to touch the heels of her feet to the top of her head, many efficient and effective ways to stop bodies in motion, the way color creeps around the edge of her vision, so faint but stark against the almost-gray world around her.
Not how to quit, though. She did what she did when and because she was ready to. Neither would she ever want to know how to give up hope.
She regarded the shackles on her wrists and ankles, leaning back on the bed. In a quick motion, she took her left hand in her right and popped her thumb out of place. The joint cracked; she thought of chipmunk-chicken soup. Ty Lee slid her hand out of the shackle, popped her thumb back and repeated the process on her right hand.
There was no helping her ankles - Ty Lee's feet just didn't bend that way. She had tried it once, and spent two weeks on crutches.
Her eyes stung, her nose was stuffed and she assumed her face was blotchy. Maybe it wasn't; she couldn't check without a mirror and there was a first time for everything. Azula had looked so ... surprised, just before she closed her eyes.
The two of them had shared that - nothing surprised Azula, because she always expected the world to do as she told it. Ty Lee couldn't be surprised, because she expected nothing of the universe: it would do what it would do.
The secret about free will was that everyone had it, that you could never account for it, and that it was what made life ... life.
She supposed that if Zuko was going to execute her, he would have had it done already. Ty Lee let her lips curve upward as she pulled a pin that had been missed in the search out of her hair. She'd always wanted to learn how to pick locks.