The-Creative-Female

Aguya would ordinarily have been sent to recuperate from her injuries in her room in the servants' quarters. Except Fire Lord Sozin insisted she stayed in the infirmary for better care. He did allow her family and best friend to visit her in the evening. Again, everyone else believed Sozin was being nice and attempting to be an acceptable leader to his people. The royal physician had estimated it would take at least six weeks for her cracked ribs to mend, so she was on strict bed rest until further notice. When she'd initially woken up to see the first bouquet of blossoms, they noticed a get-well card inside. However, as she read it by candlelight that night, she found a hidden message. It was a poem! "Red and gold bleed like the heart, and souls ache just as it rains. Soul fragments, like flower petals, wither and die, leaving nothing left on either inside. Lonely and forgotten, but both in pain, they rot. Blackened and dead from the help they received not, a little love, tenderness