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    …is not [always] the real truth.

    Truth-compelling artifacts in the hands of an enemy to one side, SYSTEM-mandated silence on the other, and Shen Qingqiu caught between the two. Is it too late to go back to the Water Prison?

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    The Sun and Moon Dew Flower is ready - but the timing is off. Binghe is still in the abyss, and will be for another two years. Shen Qingqiu had wanted to see him one last time before he died, even if Binghe was no longer his little white lotus disciple anymore.

    But the body will rot long before Binghe gets out. So Shen Qingqiu must shut away that sentiment and move forward with the plan. He has the suicide note written, and letters to everyone - including a heartfelt apology to Binghe. Shen Qingqiu has the poison that will painlessly stop his heart.

    But a death on Qing Jing peak would be suspicious - perhaps it would look faked to Luo Binghe, once he got out of the abyss. It would be better to have Shen Qingqiu’s death occur somewhere more public, so that his body would be witnessed by strangers wherever he died and as it was brought back to Cang Qiong.

    Jin Lan City seems like a good opportunity.

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    Agni has stood by as his children have used their gifts to burn the world, consumed with despair but reluctant to interfere. When the one who is meant to act as his intermediary in the mortal realm burns his own son in a shocking act of cruelty in front of a crowd who fail to step in, that is the final straw.

    The Fire Nation descends into chaos at the sudden loss of firebending, & the war becomes bloodier still, as the troops fight on out of sheer desperation, terrified that a reckoning is now due.

    And then Iroh, tending his injured nephew while trying to keep him safe from a vengeful father who blames him for this calamity, realises that Zuko's inner flame still burns...

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    Zuko had never excelled at anything. Azula was a prodigy. Uncle always knew what to say. And Father... Father was strong, iron-like. But Zuko had only ever been good at surviving. Putting one foot in front of the other in a grim show of stubborn determination, gritting his teeth and bearing it. Survival was all he had ever been taught. He knew how to do it. So when he was kidnapped by the Southern Water Tribe, he expected to fight as he always had. He didn’t expect to be taught instead how to live.

    In a warring land, the Water Tribe forgave the enemy in an act of defiance. For this, he was torn from them, and this time, his wounds won't heal so easily.

    Forced back into nothing but survival, the last person Zuko expected to see was Hakoda's son. Hakoda was a promise of safety. The relentless blue of Sokka’s eyes was a promise of happiness. Zuko could have both if he just reached out his hands, but he found them clutching into fists. After all, he’d been burned one too many times.

    But hey, at least between Hakoda and Sokka, Zuko could appreciate the family resemblance of pure, asinine stubbornness.

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    It was a mission of revenge. There weren't supposed to be any survivors, but Chief Hakoda couldn't bring himself to kill the Fire Nation boy. Against his better judgment, he brought him home. A Zuko joins the Water Tribe story.

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