Azula Flickering Hope

Warmth

Azula POV

The food I threw on the walls slid down and hit the floor I wasn't going to eat that garbage anyway

eventually the large man with the short left leg came back in to clean it up

Your more trouble then your worth you know that

You don't get to talk to me like that

Your a prisoner now princess I can talk to you however I'd like

He finished cleaning and I almost made it to the door when he went to leave but he Shocked me again and I fell back smacking my cheek against the floor feeling like my spine was being burned from the inside

I tasted blood on my teeth from biteing my tongue and squinted until the pain went away

Eventually the pain Fades leaving only a slight stiffness in my neck

I looked over the room there was absolutely nothing to do

My throat was sore from screaming and it cracked when I tried to speak

I counted each of the padded squares in the room there was 270 squares 45 on each wall the square root of 270 was 16.431 and the square root of 45 was 6.7

I liked doing math equations in my head to help me relax, It was easy once you memorized your tables

Years of private math tutors led to some good I suppose

Of course that meant I was always an amazing student who excelled in all my classes

Father gave me the best teachers in the whole nation to tutor me in every subject except for the arts of course

He considered those a waste of time
" aimless feminine activity's " he called them unless it was learning to play an instrument he didn't want me to take part in it

there was a time when I wanted to be an actress but it would have been an incredible waist of time if I had ever taken acting or theatre classes

I wanted to play the dragon emperor in the play love amongst dragons

it was a play mother would take us all out to see on Ember island. Me and Zuko would reenact the final battle on the beach afterwards

but of course I new that I was going to be firelord one way or another so that dream was short lived

and the sad thing is I'm not the fire lord so I could have become an actress....
but that would have taken betraying my father

I could never have done that

I practiced my hand stands and I admit it was easier to do on the padded floor I balanced myself on each arm

I tried to remember what Tylee told me about arm strength and keeping yourself from getting lightheaded to fast

Gymnastics where good for helping you think I couldn't do anything extraordinary but i could hold a handstand and to a back flip if I needed to.

When I escape I'll need to take out that gaurd grab his keys and then start some kind of distraction a Riot or a fire maybe.

Can't start it from in here or I'll die and I need to think about father's safety I can't risk him getting hurt either

I wonder if he knows I'm here what would he think of me getting captured so easily I'm not even sure if he's aware of kiyis existence

by now It should be around 4:00

Amasi would usually be here by now but I geuss I don't get a therapist in prison