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[restoringhonor]

I'm not sure what's worse. Being a kid or being a ferret.

Or an old person.

... I'm not affected. How often do floods affect our ages, anyway?

[Private to Vanessa and Narvin, separately. Narvin's comes much later.]

I have your knives.

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[restoringhonor]

Katara wasn't a part of the Agni Kai. Azula attacked her because she knew I'd try to save her.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Which wasn't an honorable thing to do.

[It would be sarcasm but really she's been so consistently snarky that there's no difference.]

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[restoringhonor]

No. But that's not why I did it.

[He loves his friends, okay. :c]

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

[She thinks that if this Katara could trap Azula afterwards, she could probably take care of herself in a fight, and therefore... Zuko "saved" her because he was being an idiot. Not that she didn't think that before.]

If you'd been prepared, you wouldn't have had to let someone finish your fight for you.

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[restoringhonor]

I guess. I thought Azula would be so focused on killing me, so she could be Fire Lord and get revenge, she wouldn't consider attacking Katara too. She was unstable. And I didn't realize Katara was that close, there was no way she could get out of the way in time. I know how to redirect lightning, I didn't want to watch my friend get killed by my sister, and so I intercepted it.

I don't care who stopped Azula. We're alive, and she's not in control. That's all that matters.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

But when I say that I don't care what I had to do to keep my Brotherhood alive, that it was the only thing that mattered, somehow it's a problem for you.

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[restoringhonor]

Loyalty to the people you love isn't why you're here, Vanessa.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Then what is?

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[restoringhonor]

Your methods.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

My methods were only what I had. If all I'd had to do was challenge one person, if I'd had the chance to...

[Her grip is shifting slightly on the knives before she trails off, forcing herself to calm again.]

If I had even had the chance to learn to fight like my father could. But they took that all away from me. How can any method of ending that be wrong?

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[restoringhonor]

Maybe you can get a second chance at it here. You were obviously brought here for a reason.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

A second chance. You still believe that.

I'm here, stuck in a cage with a monster like Arthas, for a reason, while the man who threw tournaments and feasted in Northrend while we starved to death walks free as a warden.

Tell me, what reason is that?

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[restoringhonor]

I don't know. Your file only has information about your life specifically, not a comprehensive history of your world.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

Right. [This is the sound of Vanessa not believing a word of that.]

Fine. You want history? Arthas was the prince of Lordaeron before he betrayed his people, slaughtered cities, murdered his own father, and tried to kill every living thing. Everything. He raised his enemies from the dead to make them serve him and watch them suffer. There are countries where nothing is left but the undead.

And he was the King of Stormwind's oldest friend.

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[restoringhonor]

And now he's here as an inmate. He'll either vanish, graduate, or you'll leave before he does.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

And I am here with him, in the same place, the same hell, for my own second chance. [Even heavier sarcasm than usual.]

Forced to crawl to wardens for my own things and skills to have against the next time he or someone else like him [Sveta] decides we should all be dead.

With you sitting above it all, ruling that what I do just isn't good enough.

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[restoringhonor]

I know it's not fair. But you're not the only inmate in that position. People like Arthas [People who it's like lol they are never getting out of here. :|] seem like they're in the minority.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

People like Arthas. [It's not really a smile, just... snark given form.] Sveta's a warden. Howie was. Tirion Fordring is. You are.

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[restoringhonor]

[Frownnnnn.] You don't think I should be?

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

[Um, duh, you're a King...equivalent.] Why should you be?

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[restoringhonor]

I don't know why the Admiral chose me. But I'm not my father. [That is the opposite of what he wants to be. :|]

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

And your father wasn't his father. And I'm not mine. [BUT SHE WISHES SHE WERE.]

What's your point?

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[restoringhonor]

I'm not the person you've assumed I am.

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[lifeafterhope.livejournal.com]

You don't know what I assume. Or did the Admiral hold your hand on that too?

[Still glaring at him, she drops Narvin's knives deliberately to the floor and heads for the door, stopping for a moment to say:]

Don't talk about me to the Wardens. I'll hear about it and so will everyone else.

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[restoringhonor]

I understand. [So much concealed grump towards the person who told her. :\ Also you're free to leave if you want, you've handed over the knives and that's good enough for him.]