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    Caleb’s running a fever by the time the rest of the Mighty Nein find him.

    He was expecting that much – he’s done this before, after all, knows that it’s a bad idea and will not go well in the long run. However, bleeding out in the middle of a forest is also not a good idea, and will also not go well in the long run. The difference is that bleeding out in the middle of a forest will go exceptionally poorly in the short run, so it’s a lesser-of-two evils sort of thing. He’s well-versed in Faustian bargains, made both unwittingly and otherwise. It’s fine.

    (In which Caleb gets separated from the rest of the group, and then injured, and then some rather ill-advised DIY field medicine involving fire. The rest of the Mighty Nein are left to pick up the pieces when they find him.)

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    26 Jun 2026

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    The war is over, but the battles are not.

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    A victorious Sokka flies to the side of a badly wounded Zuko.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Tao fled the scene as soon as the words "Agni Kai" were uttered; fights between siblings were messy, fights between royal, firebending siblings were guaranteed to end in bloodshed if not death.

    So he did what any brother would do and started running to his childhood home to protect his family.

    He could be executed for his cowardice later.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    One of Nott's cell mates steals something little and shiny and stupid, exactly the kind of thing that makes her fingers itch almost uncontrollably, and the guards make him pay for it in blood. She knows better than to get close to any of the other criminals in here, but she also knows the man on the ground might actually be too broken to hurt her. (She decides Caleb is her boy well before he knows it.)

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Zuko wakes up the first time it happens to the smell of burning flesh. He at first thinks it’s just a lingering memory, the vestiges of a nightmare he’s had many times, but then he hears the shouts and clanging of metal that accompanies it.

    The telltale signs of a fight, right outside his door.

    So of course he does the sensible thing and rushes toward the commotion without a second thought, still in his loose bedclothes and bleary-eyed from sleep. He practically falls out of the door, stumbling right into the middle of both the hall and the battle waging within it.

    At this point, Zuko's no stranger to attempts on his life. He can handle it.

     

    Or five times Zuko's friends save him from an assassination attempt, and one time they're almost too late.

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    30 May 2026