His face fell a little. "Oh. So you were deposed..." Azula's was an odd opinion to have about one's subjects, but Atom was kind of beginning to suspect Azula wasn't one of those fairytale princesses, anyway. She sounded more like she'd been part of the kind of royal family that Darius XIV had been a part of. Except that perhaps instead of another country, it was power struggles from within that she'd had to worry about.

"But you're free now, so does that mean he failed?"