[AUGUST 25] [AVATAR] GRIN LIKE A DOG

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Title: Grin Like A Dog
Day/Theme: August 25 / Grin Like A Dog
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Azula
Rating:G

 

Azula smiled. And picked up the hairbrush, lining it precisely in place on her vanity. She was, after all, perfectly capable of putting up her own hair; a commander had to be prepared for such exigencies in the field. She smiled a little wider, carefully, neatly. Briefly the thought of her uncle, at siege for two years outside Ba Sing Se, came to mind, the even, level fields stretching between the city and the outer wall, the loop and dive of the great stone monorails. Her city. She wondered what it would look like from the air.

 

She smiled and twisted her hair up, stepping carefully across the floor, holding up her robes. A Fire Lord must expect certain standards, of course. But a commander might even have to sand and oil her own armour, if the war demanded it. There was no excuse for any lapse in order. She settled the silk around her shoulders.

 

The corridors of her palace swelled and looped around her. She stretched out a sheet of paper, ground her brush into the ink, poised herself over the page. She should record the occasion for posterity, for her father. She allowed the ink to lap at the paper; she licked her lips in the silence. She wondered what the palace looked like from the air. She smiled.