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The Fire Palace is techincally a series of much smaller buildings grouped together and locked by walled footpaths and ornate gardens. The Imperial audience chambers are in the centre, near where the Royal family live in a smaller, heavily walled domicile. Guests are quartered in expansive rooms in one of the outer rings, a short walk away from the temple, used by all who live in the Palace.

One of the low buildings in the temple itself is dedicated to memorials to the departed. Smoke rises in thin worms from a thousand incense sticks, set before rolls representing the dead, individually or collectively. At the front, facing the worshipper as he enters, are twin rolls representing the parents of the current Fire Lord - one handsome king with his face marked by a hug burn scar, and one exotic looking blue eyed woman, sporting a scar of her own. As only four people in the world have ever met Melaka Fray, no one's arguing the likeness.

The victims of the recent border attack are in a temporary position next to Zuko. Each name is written out in perfect and careful calligraphy grouped by nation, and not one is left out, no matter who they might have been or which element they subscribed to. The sand in front of that scroll burns with more sticks than anywhere else, today.

Date: 2007-05-21 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
"No, but she does think I can't wake up in the mornings without her shining presence to start my heart up again."

Date: 2007-05-21 08:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
"The only reason fits weren't thrown about me leaving for this long this time," Sokka points out, his voice soft, "is because of Miki. Even if my tribe said nothing about their chief being in the Fire Nation for months, every other leader of every other nation would have plenty to say. I can't ignore all of it.

"...no matter how much I want to."

Date: 2007-05-21 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
"And entirely too tempting for me to honestly consider." He sighs once and leans over to kiss her hair again, squeezing her hand once before releasing her arm, coming up on his door. "If I could figure out how, Loo, Hana never would have left, you and your brother, all of your children, all of mine, me, Steph... we'd be living together in some remote Earth Kingdom village.

"Until then, we just have to deal with reality."

Date: 2007-05-21 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
"Well, I can at least try and include that pony Kanna's been asking for," he points out, smirking at her.

Date: 2007-05-21 08:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
"She doesn't like birds - bad spill on a penguin when she was eight months old. Just a regular pony should do it."

Date: 2007-05-21 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
"Sure, I'll just teleport Shenzi over. Shouldn't be too hard, really. Got Steph here, didn't I?"

Date: 2007-05-21 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
"Will do." He grins and squeezes her shoulder again before reaching back to push the screen to his room open. "See you at your fancy dinner, miss Louise. Don't forget to let Ursa show off right next to Issarok."

Date: 2007-05-22 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] not-goingback.livejournal.com
Hugging her back tightly, Sokka drops a kiss to her hair and grins when he releases her. "See you there."

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