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BraveGirlsWearBoots: EpilogueAN:  For this, I’m gonna go with something sad.  Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata or the “Sacrifice” suite from the BtVS soundtrack.  Anything that makes you sigh.

Epilogue – Beginning of the End

“Eeow!  This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!”

Of all the things he could have complained about, somehow it didn’t surprise Song that it was the tea that upset Iroh.

She swallowed with difficulty.  It truly was awful tea.

“Uncle, that’s what all tea is.”

It also didn’t surprise her that Zuko still couldn’t distinguish between the former and the latter.  Mind you, his tea was tBraveGirlsWearBoots: Epilogue by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 6AN: While you read this, listen to something…epic.

Chapter Six – Signs of Separation

“I said no.”

Song watched the hurt enter Jet’s dark eyes just as the temper entered Zuko’s brilliant ones.  Too similar, she thought, too stubborn.

“Fine, have it your way.”

They watched Zuko stride away, Jet bitterly, and Song turned back to the others, a sigh and an apology on her lips.

“I’m sorry guys, he’s just –”

In a dizzy instant, Jet’s hand was gripping her wrist, fingers white-knuckled.  The pain was blunt and immediate.  Dread pooling in her stBraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 6 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 5Chapter Five – The Jasmine Dragon

The wind combed dark, sightless fingers through her hair, whispered in its cool voice, belled the skirt and sleeves of hanbok and pressed damp kisses of lake-spray to her cheeks and forehead.  Overhead the gibbous moon rode high and bright.  Song closed her eyes and basked.

Footsteps upon the boards of the ferry deck.  Only a little familiar…  She opened her eyes and glanced over her shoulder, one elbow lifting from the railing with the movement.

Jet smiled as he settled beside her, that ridiculous grass straw twirling between his teeth before he gazed up at the blanket of stars overhead.  The smBraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 5 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots:Interlude3Interlude Three – Field of Fever Dreams

As they waited, she watched him sleep.

The world felt smaller here in the flower shop, small than it had that morning, filled as it was with discoveries of wanted posters and the torment of the Rough Rhinos.  Not since his niece almost shattered Iroh on the living blades of her lightning had Song felt such crippling terror.

She remembered the how Mongke’s men had leered at her as she clung to Zuko, feeling his rage seethe beneath his skin in physical heat.  She remembered one man’s attempt to grab her, and the Prince’s wrath as he repelled the rider, wrapping his own swing-chains BraveGirlsWearBoots:Interlude3 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 4Chapter Four – The Hidden Prince

The shrine was still covered in early morning mist when they arrived, still making their way back to civilization and away from the haunting hills surrounding the ghost town.  It stood, like many in this area, at a crossroads.  Song smiled when she saw two of the little figurines sitting within the shelter of the alcove; a brass Kirin, badly tarnished and a little wooden speckle-hawk.

Iroh was surprisingly solemn that day, rubbing the still-healing wound on his chest; but then she learned later that he was always like this around sacred places.  Song thought that perhaps it was because of his son, just BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 4 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots:Interlude2Interlude Two – Lives (Extra)Ordinary

There were no words, no voices, nothing of the corporeal that could express a pain like this.  It was terrible in its familiarity; she had felt this twice before, and though she didn’t know if she could put just one name to it, she knew exactly what it meant.

Someone she cared about was being taken away from her.

She had stayed hidden in the wreck of the ghost town’s buildings, shivering and clinging to the ostrich-horse’s bridle.  Zuko had said to stay hidden, and there was real fear in his eyes when he told her he didn’t want his sister to find her.

So Song had stayed, and wBraveGirlsWearBoots:Interlude2 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 3Chapter Three – The Lake of Lost and Found

Song found him atop one of the rocky hills, itself now an island amongst the roiling mist.  Above, the storm tore apart the sky, the clouds hanging and shifting like rank upon rank of air ships, each releasing great salvos of rain.  Lightning glowed and shattered overhead, followed by the huge voices of thunder and it was then that she truly feared for him.

Zuko did not give up, not without a fight.  She didn’t doubt that he would find his own lightning, but she hoped, perhaps a little selfishly that the lightning wouldn’t find him.

And there he was, shoulders hunched, as defeated aBraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 3 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots:Interlude1Interlude One – Run, Kitten, Run

She arrived just in time to hear him say it.

“My name is Zuko.  Son of Ursa and Fire Lord Ozai.”  He sheathed his Dao.  “Prince of the Fire Nation and heir to the throne.”

She hardly heard what they called afterwards.  Their voices were merely blurs of sound upon the heated air:  “…liar…outcast…father burned…disowned…”

Song did not care.

Zuko took the dagger back, approached the boy.  A woman slipped forward, between the prince and the child.  “Not a step closer.”

SoBraveGirlsWearBoots:Interlude1 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 1Chapter One – The Tea Shop of Scars and Secrets

They traveled for two days, almost non-stop, but she remembered almost none of it.  Lee wouldn’t let her ride by herself, and so she rode tandem with him – in front, because when she initially sat behind him, she forgot to hang on, and nearly fell.

“You could’ve been killed!” he raged, shaking her shoulders.

“Nephew,” Mushi tried to interject.

She simply gazed back at him, blank, uncomprehending, the grief raw and hovering just beneath the surface of her face.

Lee gripped her shoulders a little tighter, then silently guided her back to his ostrich-horBraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 1 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 2Chapter Two – Those Girls from Ba Sing Se

When he put the bag in front of her, she didn’t know what to say.  It was open, and spilling from it were the silken hems and sleeves of a noblewoman’s clothes.  Very slowly, she drew the first item from the bag and spread it cautiously before her.  It was beautiful, as she had expected; the silk was dense and dyed a rich amber to emulate gold, embroidered with a pretty dragonfly and cattail design, while the buttons were elegantly made knots of black cord.  She recognized the pattern; northern loveknots.

He couldn’t have possibly realized BraveGirlsWearBoots: Chapter 2 by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
BraveGirlsWearBoots: ProloguePrologue – Grave of the Fireflies

They got as far as the out most lying farm – fields of koala-sheep, rice paddies nearer the river, paddocks with sleeping pig-cows – before the ostrich-horse began to flinch and shy, and Zuko heard the telltale rumble of komodo-rhinos.

Iroh whispered one word.

“Raiders.”

Zuko turned, eyes widening.  “They’re heading for the village.”

Song…

The Dragon of the West looked at his nephew.  His nephew looked back at him.

Then the prince wrenched the reins around and drove their squalling mount back the way they came.

~~~

There was only a brief rumble in the distBraveGirlsWearBoots: Prologue by ~Beloved-Stranger More Like This
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