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The blacksmith posting paid four times anything Kaia had ever made. The prince it came with hadn't smiled in four years.
When General Iroh hires a scrappy, underpaid blacksmith for Prince Zuko's rusted warship, he's not looking for someone to fix the doors: he's looking for someone who might fix his nephew. Kaia of Sui didn't sign up for that. She signed up for the money, the adventure, and an escape from a father who stopped speaking to her years ago.
But somewhere between dragging Zuko to music night and lying to military officers on his behalf, keeping her distance stops being an option, and the Fire Nation's war stops being someone else's problem.
slow-burn, enemies to friends to lovers, angst, found family, a girl who will not stop talking, poor descriptions of metal working, straddling the line between Zuko being an awkward turtleduck and super hot