AUDIENCE: ZUKO

[retellers]

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[cuedoves]

What about the other leaders? Do you know anything about them, or what happened to them all?

[ aside from this dead one obviously ]

[retellers]

It was still us. Though I doubt that [ taps the paper ] was the only time one of us died.

[cuedoves]

WHAT?!

[ in hindsight this is pretty fucking obvious since they keep recalling memories, but it's hard for zuko to wrap his head around ]

So... for every cycle...

[ it's been them? ]

[retellers]

... Yeah.

[ duh. ]

[cuedoves]

That's... I thought...

[ give him a second. ]

How long has it even been for you?

[retellers]

[ ... shrugs? ]

Not sure. Same length of time has the rest of you guys, though.

[cuedoves]

But we've only been here for one cycle.

[ .... ]

Haven't we?

[retellers]

Group's stayed the same. [ ... ] It's a cycle. It repeats, with... different mistakes.

[cuedoves]

So it's---

[ all this time, he's been thinking it's different people, but... ]

Us? All of us?

[retellers]

... Yeah.

[ zuzu out here thinkin this is the avatar cycle ]

[cuedoves]

[ yeah bitch they're just reincarnating into dumbasses ]

So we've just been doing the same thing over and over again, and being really bad at it?!

[ maybe that's not such a big surprise ]

[retellers]

....... Yeah, kinda.

[cuedoves]

I can't.... I can't remember any of it.

[ but then again, even the last few weeks..... he can't remember much of anything that happened ]

[retellers]

No one can. Don't put it on yourself. Even we didn't remember.

[cuedoves]

[ he does chill a little, but ]

How do I know what to avoid if I can't even remember my mistakes in the first place...?

[retellers]

Follow your gut. Just because you've made mistakes doesn't mean you don't know what the right thing is deep down.

[cuedoves]

I'm.... not great at doing the right thing.

[ just. traditionally. ]

[retellers]

[ they never said he was but they just sigh instead of pointing that out ] If you can't trust yourself, ask for guidance. There's got to be people here who's judgment you trust on that stuff.

[cuedoves]

[ sorry wolf you triggered the manpain. ]

.. Yeah. Though I guess I don't know how right they are, either. Or... what the right thing to do is in this situation. It's just.. bad... all around.

[retellers]

[ the manpain is terrible. stop it. ]

You're on this path now. Stop looking at what the best direction might be and just follow the one in front of you. Either you figure it out, or you don't.

[cuedoves]

What if this really is our last shot, though? Like Sora heard?

[ listen he's trying. kind of. ]

[retellers]

Then what's spending this entire shot second-guessing yourself and looking back going to do?

[cuedoves]

... You're right. I just don't know how to move forward.

[retellers]

I've heard saying it's one step at a time.

[ wolf. ]

[cuedoves]

... Yeah. Usually Uncle gives me advice on how to do that.

[ now he has to go at it alone!!!! with only wolf to guide him???? no jk ]