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[grayaura.livejournal.com]

So, after finally getting pod-popped and being allowed to go on her merry way, Mai is wandering around the living area. She does have what appear to be throwing knives strapped to her arms or concealed as best she can in her bio-jumpsuit. She's idly twirling one of those knives in her right hand and looks positively bored with her life and surroundings. She pauses to run her free hand through her hair. Yeah, Mai's going to need a mirror and some hair-clips to get it looking anywhere near decent again.

Not that she cares that much.

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[found-myway.livejournal.com]

"It was -"

Well, it's not as though Zuko hasn't been alone before. He's been a stranger in a strange land before, but being a Fire Nation Prince in the Earth Kingdom was a few steps down from being the only person from his entire world on a starship.

". . . it was pretty lonely," he admits. "Nobody here even knew what Bending is."

He smiles, thinking of Brainy and his scanner. "Some of them didn't even believe me when I showed them what it was. It's crazy here. There are green people, and people made of light - people who fly who aren't airbenders . . ."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

Mai actually looks surprised. People don't know about Bending? Everyone knows what Bending is. Don't they?

"Nobody? How can they now know what Bending is?"

She pauses, listening to him for a few moments, "Sounds pretty crazy. At least it makes life a bit more... interesting."

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. A lot of them can do strange things, but they don't call it Bending. I wouldn't, either."

"Interesting. Yeah, that's about the best that can be said about it." he smiles a bit. "It's better now that you're here."

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

Mai shrugs and then smiles. It's one of those smiles that's reserved for Zuko and only Zuko, "Yeah. I'm glad I'm not here without you."

[found-myway.livejournal.com]

His hand finds hers. He squeezes it, gently.

It's a good thing nobody else is around, because if they saw Zuko smiling like a sap, his carefully crafted image of perpetual angst would be sunk.

[grayaura.livejournal.com]

She squeezes back and then moves forward to give him a hug.

The same is true of Mai as well, except it would be her perpetual indifference and apathy.