yet more background for this story
Remember that request on a meme I posted back in... September? That never got finished. Well, I finally got my rear in gear and wrote it.
This isn't it. The actual request is here .
This is actually the Zuko POV of some related events, because I felt the need to include his viewpoint and demonstrate exactly why there were problems.
The sun was bright.
He was standing with a large group of other people. Other prisoners, was how the tall boy had described them. Prisoners, people in a prison. He supposed that was accurate. But they weren't in the prison anymore, so were they still prisoners?
The tall boy was traveling with a girl, a short bald boy, and a short person in green that he thought was boy, but wasn't sure. They had come running in, opened up doors that shouldn't exist, and now the world was a lot bigger.
The world had sunlight now. That was definitely important, even if he wasn't sure why.
The bald boy looking at him now. Perhaps he could explain why the sunlight was important?
"Uh oh."
The girl and other boy (the tall one) looked up.
The boy said "Lee!" as the girl said "Zuko!"
Which one is it?
He thought it was Lee. Kinda hoped it was Lee, actually, because the girl looked angry, and he didn't really want to be this Zuko person when she caught up to him.
Lee was an Earth Kingdom name. Zuko was a Fire Nation name. It was like the sunlight, he didn't know how he knew, but he did. And he was wearing green, so he was probably Earth Kingdom. So he was probably Lee.
With this realization came a stream of memories: stone walls, a teashop, the tall boy yelling (about what, he wasn't sure), an old man who smelled like tea. Uncle.
Meanwhile the tall boy and the girl and the short girl in green were arguing about... something. Whether he was a Lee or a Zuko? But he'd already figured that out. Maybe they didn't know that yet.
"My name's Lee."
They all looked at him, and they all looked worried and a bit confused, except the short girl, who just looked worried.