“You can’t possibly think that any of us would trust you, can you? I mean- how stupid do you think we are?!”
“I don’t.” The girl stands there, voice low and husky, ragged travel-clothes clearly of fine Fire-Nation make.
“I do think you’re smart enough- to realize that you have my daughter in your hands. You need a firebending teacher- I need my daughter, safe and unharmed. And I’ve realized, in my time at home- that the only way I’m going to get that is through you.”
“How do we know you’re not gonna just- run off and leave her with us?” Sokka exclaimed, grasping to put the turmoil Zura aroused into words.
The princess’s knuckles went white.
Katara’s eyes narrow, and her grip on the toddler in her arms doesn’t change.
“How do you know we won’t hurt her?”
The silence rings slowly outward through the group at that. Zura sinks slowly to her knees, ram-rod spine bending at last to bring her forehead to touch the ground.
“Then you’re not the people I’ve come to know chasing you. And I’ve made a terrible mistake trusting my child- and the fate of the world- to you.”
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Plea to Join the Avatar, WAT
Date: 2010-10-21 06:56 am (UTC)“You can’t possibly think that any of us would trust you, can you? I mean- how stupid do you think we are?!”
“I don’t.” The girl stands there, voice low and husky, ragged travel-clothes clearly of fine Fire-Nation make.
“I do think you’re smart enough- to realize that you have my daughter in your hands. You need a firebending teacher- I need my daughter, safe and unharmed. And I’ve realized, in my time at home- that the only way I’m going to get that is through you.”
“How do we know you’re not gonna just- run off and leave her with us?” Sokka exclaimed, grasping to put the turmoil Zura aroused into words.
The princess’s knuckles went white.
Katara’s eyes narrow, and her grip on the toddler in her arms doesn’t change.
“How do you know we won’t hurt her?”
The silence rings slowly outward through the group at that. Zura sinks slowly to her knees, ram-rod spine bending at last to bring her forehead to touch the ground.
“Then you’re not the people I’ve come to know chasing you. And I’ve made a terrible mistake trusting my child- and the fate of the world- to you.”