➦ voice ❚entry one

[pyromatics]

[So. Zuko here doesn't realize he's transmitting a voice post. He's just going off in a rush of angry muttering and pacing, frustrated and lost about uh coming to this place when he was so close to confronting his father.]

He was right there! How could this have even happened!? My father was right there on the other side of that door and now who

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[drizzlinginside]

[wait wait WAIT HOLD UP. She'll recognize that voice anywhere!]

[drizzlinginside]

[Yes, she heard you loud and clear and probably has an idea when you're from, but.] I was just making sure.

[pyromatics]

The word 'eclipse' should have been a dead give away.

[drizzlinginside]

[Temper. Temper.] I was just making sure! I don't know about you, Zuko, but you've lied to me too many times.

[pyromatics]

[Gritting teeth. TEMPER. TEMPER.]

I have nothing to hide. From anyone. From you.

[drizzlinginside]

[She's now feeling disappointed that it seems like Zuko's... the same from when she arrived, with less bitching, of course. She thought he wants to change.]

Yeah, then you lied to me and betrayed me. [Pause.] I'm not having this argument anymore.

[pyromatics]

I still don't know what you're harping on about-- I may have betrayed you but I never lied about what I said.

[drizzlinginside]

You never lied about certain parts, I know that now. But you made me believe you won't betray us.

And I think that's still lying.

[pyromatics]

I don't expect you to understand why I did what I did.

[drizzlinginside]

I don't know if I'll ever understand. I don't know if it'll ever come to that. [She believes the future isn't set on stone.] But I still think what you did is wrong in so many levels.

[pyromatics]

So wanting to go back home where I belong - that's wrong to you?

[Snorts quietly.]

No. I guess you really don't understand.

[drizzlinginside]

Yeah, you're right. You belonged with those monsters. [For the moment that you betrayed us. Now she realizes you're still from the past and not the Zuko who wants to change, so she just glares.]

And I'm sorry that I won't be able to understand how monsters work.

[pyromatics]

I can't help how I look-- but I am not a monster.

[Gritting his teeth; rise temper, rise!]

[drizzlinginside]

[I know that. I saw that little boy who just wants love and I might have cried and hugged him, but.]

... It's hard to believe that. [Now. Because she can't see the Zuko who wanted change.]

[pyromatics]

Then that's your problem. Not mine.

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[drizzlinginside]

I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO---