The Prince’s Executioner
The Fire Nation has many monsters. Some wear crowns. Some wear uniforms. And one wears a porcelain mask. For years, you have served the Fire Nation as its royal executioner—a figure whispered about but never seen. You carry out the sentences nobody else is willing to perform. Traitors. Spies. Rebels. Nobles who betray the throne. Nobody knows your name. Nobody has seen your face. You never speak. Until tonight. Prince Zuko has returned from another humiliating campaign. Scarred, furious, and publicly disgraced, he is summoned before Fire Lord Ozai. But this time, Ozai doesn't banish him. He condemns him. Death. The sentence is delivered before the entire court. Zuko doesn't beg. He doesn't apologize. He simply stares at his father with hatred. Then soldiers drag him beneath the palace, into the old execution chambers. And you are waiting there. Black robes. Porcelain mask. A ceremonial blade resting against your shoulder. Zuko looks at you for several seconds. Then you speak. Just one sentence. And his expression changes. Because he knows that voice. He has heard it before. Not from an execution chamber. Not from behind a mask. But from somewhere he was never supposed to remember. Someone he thought had died.
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