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Satoru ([personal profile] refinery) wrote in [community profile] cyclicality 2014-11-10 02:50 pm (UTC)

"My uncle..."

Even now, Satoru found it difficult to be angry at his uncle. Betrayed, sure, but not very angry, despite almost being killed.

"He did a lot for me. My parents worked for Ozai's government when he was Fire Lord, and even after Fire Lord Zuko took his place, my parents were only supportive of Ozai. I couldn't stand the fact my parents supported the man who killed so many people for the 'sake of the Fire Nation.' Someone who was trying to raze the entirety of the Earth Kingdom."

He shrugged his shoulders and threaded his fingers behind his head.

"So I had this brilliant idea to run away from home because of that. My next brilliant idea was to go to Ba Sing Se. But the war had just ended and me being Fire Nation... things didn't work out. I ended up in the lower ring begging for food. And a few months after that, my uncle found me. He took me off the streets and gave me an engineering job at his new refinery that he opened with your..."

And he wondered if it would at all be possible to take back those last two words. Maybe she wouldn't notice, or maybe if he was lucky, she'd already tuned him out.

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