And that, Roxie has a hard time wrapping her head around. Not at a conscious level--she understands the idea, certainly--but at an unconscious one, where the message really has yet to sink in. Every fight she's ever had, until she was taken by the ship, has been life or death. Captured, she would be make an experiment and subject of torture, not a prisoner. And she can afford no mercy to the cho.

And beyond that, there's a little part of her that wonders how much easier it would have been if there had een someone around to just shoot this Azula in the head at the beginning. Lethal pragmatism.

But it's not something most people could understand.

And so she spends long moments silent.