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“You know,” Sokka said slowly, “for somebody who acts superior all the time, you seem kind of miserable.”
The other man went very still. For one awful second, Sokka thought he’d crossed some invisible line. Then Zuko huffed quietly, almost like a laugh but not quite.
“Goodnight, Sokka.”
He brushed past him toward the door. Their shoulders collided lightly as Zuko passed, and he caught how cold he felt through the thin rehearsal shirt. Sokka stayed there another moment, staring at his reflection of the room in the mirrors. Then he looked toward the speaker, the discarded water bottle, the untouched food sitting half-hidden inside Zuko’s bag pocket before the zipper had fallen shut.
And for reasons Sokka couldn’t explain yet, walking away from the studio felt much more difficult than it should have.
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Zuko is the best dancer at Agna Qel Conservatory. He’s also exhausted, starving, and emotionally volatile. Sokka plays hockey, thinks ballet is ridiculous, and keeps accidentally running into Zuko while picking up his sister from rehearsals. Unfortunately, the more Sokka sees of the ballet world, the less he understands why someone would willingly destroy themselves for it.