AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

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week 3, sunday

[retellers]

[ someday i'll notice these on time. anyway, text! it says!! bridge. wolf is on the bridge again ]

What is it?

[cuedoves]

[ what's up... ]

Hey. I wanted to ask what you remembered. Both about the Realm, and... your own stuff.

[ straight to the point. ]

[retellers]

[ ... huh. ]

Why?

[cuedoves]

.. I want to know more about what's going on in the Realm. And about you. I won't tell anyone your personal stuff, if you want to trust me with it.

[retellers]

[ ... they look back out at the river. a mermaid waves probably. ]

Most of what I've remembered about myself I wouldn't share anyway. [ sometimes. you're like hm no about the concept of Being Known ] But I'm a mercenary.

[cuedoves]

Yeah, I get it. With the way memories come and go here, though... I just thought it might be a good idea to share. You know what I mean?

[ hilda's cyoa and the xion ending really left an impression on him... ]

Yeah, I can see that.

[retellers]

Seems like mine are less going and more coming.

[ i immediately regret this phrasing ]

You're not the first to say that.

[cuedoves]

Yeah, but... just in case.

[ he won't push it though, if wolf doesn't want to share. ]

You're pretty professional.... compared to some of these guys. A lot of people been asking about you?

[retellers]

[ wolf is not in a sharing mood today "are they ever" today ]

Constantly. Don't know what it is about me that gets everyone so interested.

[ just. genuinely. Why. ]

[cuedoves]

[ give zuzu the lore one day ]

The air of mystery, probably. The people here are pretty weird anyway, they all think I'm great and kind.

[retellers]

[ there's a half twitch of his lip ]

... Whatever you think of yourself, all they know is what you've shown here.

[cuedoves]

Yeah, and?

[ he's not great and kind here either??? ]

[retellers]

You're not exactly the biggest jerk around, kid.

[ emet is still, somehow, right there ]

[cuedoves]

I'm not a kid.

[ he's a man!! a sixteen year old man!!!! ]

Yeah, but that doesn't make me some kind of saint. That's what they all seem to think.

[retellers]

They're not treating you like a saint. [ okay, now theyre amused ]

[cuedoves]

They practically are. Every time I talk to someone, it's all about how good and nice and kind and brave I am.

Don't you get the same thing?

[retellers]

Not really. [ people say they're nice sometimes but it's mostly as a tease. which they do not say. ] But they might be saying it because it makes you squirm.

[cuedoves]

Lucky you, then.

[ he wants wolf's power!! ] Yeah, maybe I should stop reacting.

[retellers]

You think you can manage that?

[ zuko... your baby temper ]

[cuedoves]

What's that supposed to mean?

[ immediately proves wolf's point ]

[retellers]

[

gestures at zuko ]

[cuedoves]

.... I'm working on it.

[ i keep getting distracted from plot ]

Uh. So what did you remember about the Realm?

[retellers]

About the Realm?

[ ? ]

[cuedoves]

Yeah. You should have remembered about yourself, and something about the Realm. Right?

[retellers]

[ hm. ]

Why do you think that?