"That's true," he considered. "You'd be within yer royal rights. But if the Fire Lady could arrest me without causing a serious shitstorm she'da trumped up a charge before now. The Fire Lord didn't send you here to provoke me. I'd be a martyr to all the courtiers you and your sibs have ever scorned, my investors would be pissed, jobs would be lost, the deal with the North would fall through, and Xi Feng'd have one helluva job on his hands."
The Fire Lord Zuko was a whole lot of thinga, mythical and majestic and even kinda frightening, but he was not capable of beating Ren at his own game.
"I wonder why he did send you," Ren mused, darkly. Princess Zhi was very beautiful and Ren studied her bone structure, trying to see what his mother had loved, the great Azula's sharp bone structure beneath all that pale skin. "I think... he sent you here to remind me of my place."
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Date: 2006-11-22 04:41 pm (UTC)"That's true," he considered. "You'd be within yer royal rights. But if the Fire Lady could arrest me without causing a serious shitstorm she'da trumped up a charge before now. The Fire Lord didn't send you here to provoke me. I'd be a martyr to all the courtiers you and your sibs have ever scorned, my investors would be pissed, jobs would be lost, the deal with the North would fall through, and Xi Feng'd have one helluva job on his hands."
The Fire Lord Zuko was a whole lot of thinga, mythical and majestic and even kinda frightening, but he was not capable of beating Ren at his own game.
"I wonder why he did send you," Ren mused, darkly. Princess Zhi was very beautiful and Ren studied her bone structure, trying to see what his mother had loved, the great Azula's sharp bone structure beneath all that pale skin. "I think... he sent you here to remind me of my place."