[Well, what the hell, I keep thinking of these riffs on - I'm not sure why - Marvel movies; might as well not fight it.]

>--from "Boomerang Diplomacy: A Water Tribe Swordsman in Lord Zuko's
>Court", Prof. Hong Fuzoku
>Royal Fire Academy; Fire Nation, 250 ASC

As an aside, this is an excellent work on the subject with much to recommend it in terms of its scholarship and the delicacy of its innuendo, but Sokka's own memoir of his time in the Fire Nation, Crazy from the Heat, is much funnier and has considerably better illustrations. It's tied for the title of "Sokka's second-best book" with his chronicle of his travels with Toph, The Adventures of Snow Savage and Dirt Girl.

First place, of course, goes to his all-time classic memoir of the end of the Hundred Years' War, Love in the Time of Space Sword.

"I don't think we should be focusing on Azula," Aang mused. "That girl's brain is like a bagful of cats, you can smell the crazy on her."

Zuko glared at him. "Mind your tone, Avatar. Azula might be beyond reason, but she's still a princess of the Fire Nation, and she's my sister."

Katara wasn't impressed. "She killed 80 people in two days," she said flatly.

Zuko hesitated, unable to argue that, and then said lamely, "... She's adopted?"

"Zuko, you lying sack," I jeered. "She is not."

--G.
Admittedly, Love in the Time of Space Sword may not be entirely historically accurate, but it's a good read.
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