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[For anyone that's paying attention today, there's a weird video that comes over the network. The closeup of a face that looked clearly irritated, along with a large burn scar on one side. The perspective of the view turning back and forth as the young man turned around his device a few times. Making an annoyed sound in the process.]

This is so stupid!

[Hopefully no one gets sick as the landscape zooms by in all directions before being turned to the ground. Giving a view of brown boots with a gold stripe going up the front, the toes of the shoes curled upward.]

How can they call this a smart anything! It's not smart at all!

[Someone might have not read his instructions thoroughly out of impatience and is now doing this wrong.]

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[ Weiss is working on her summoning- making it happen faster. So when he does find her, he's going to find her standing in front of a very large, white glowy boar-looking monster, approaching it slowly as she focuses on controlling her emotions. Doing that while knowing Zuko is coming is difficult, which is why now is a good time to focus on it. She's had issues accidentally summoning while emotional, so she works on it whenever she can to make sure she no longer has that problem. It's gone well so far.

The Grimm seems to be alerted to Zuko's presence before Weiss is, huffing in his direction before Weiss turns her attention up to him. A couple moments later, the monster seems to dissolve into thin air. ]

If you needed a shirt that badly you should've let me known. It isn't like I didn't have spare time.

[Well that's... interesting. Zuko just blinks and stares at the glowing white boar. Such creatures were not unheard of where he's from, but this looked more like a spirit instead of an actual creature.

Which only sealed that in his mind as the thing disappeared. His attention then turning to the girl.]

I'm fine.

[He didn't see his shirt as being all that important to take care of immediately. Besides, he wasn't about to ask that of someone he doesn't even know. Even if she knows him.]

Let's just get this over with.

[ He's not wrong, but Weiss doesn't bother to explain. She doesn't have a problem explaining, and has come out multiple times about it because of some of the issues people seem to have here with any connection to the dead at all.

Still, she rolls her eyes. ]

Look, you don't have to like me or hang around me or anything. I'm not expecting you to, but I didn't want to lie either. I just want you to know that you have someone you can trust here if you need someone. It's the least I can do.

[ She moves over to a tree where she'd put a long dufflebag, kneeling down to unzip it. She highly doubts that he's expecting her to pull out what she does- his swords, and the Blue Spirit mask. She picks up the mask and holds it out to him as she stands up. ]

[Hearing that, Zuko just sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.]

All right, fine. I'm sorry, okay? This is just a lot to take in.

[It was overwhelming, especially after what had happened before he and Katara were suddenly yanked over here. Plus he was injured, sore, and cranky. It wasn't Weiss's fault entirely. But the info bomb hadn't helped. He shouldn't be taking it out on her though, and he knew that.

Thus Zuko tried to compose himself... and then he saw what she pulled out. His eyes going wide. Seeing the mask, he slowly took it from her. A flood of memories passing through his mind.]

... How?

[And the question stopped there.]

Last time, you... [ No. ] The other Zuko trusted me. Azula was here at the time, and we were dating, and she was trying to tell everyone all sorts of things about the Blue Spirit. So he found me, and told me in the most infuriating way possible.

[ But she won't go into that. It's besides the point. ]

I.. didn't understand at first. Despite how I am now, I used to be a much more difficult person. [ Stubborn, argumentative, snobby, strictly lawful. Rather thankfully one of her positive attributes is that she's adaptive and willing to at least try to consider others points. ] But the other Zuko taught me that sometimes people can do awful things and it doesn't mean they have to be bad people. That sometimes you have to break everything you grew up being told was right to become a better person, too. [ She draws both swords from the duffle next, clearly comfortable with them, then holds the hilts out to him. ]

When he disappeared, I went to clean out his apartment and make sure they were safe so no one else would find out. I've kept them in a safe in my closet since. I think it's about time I returned them.

[ A beat. ] For the record, I was 17 when we met. Not 22. [ Because now that seems like a much bigger difference. ]

[Zuko actually fell quiet as he listened to what Weiss had to say. A pensive expression on his face as his eyes turned to the dual dao swords that were now being held out to him.

There was a moment's hesitation, but he then took the weapons. He knew he would probably need those. Holding the swords together in one hand, he then looked at the blue spirit mask in the other. Considering it for a moment before looking back up at Weiss.]

I'm sorry that I'm not the person you knew.

[He knew he didn't need to apologize, but it just felt right. He didn't know what it must be like for her, but he knew it couldn't be good. Despite how she seemed to have moved on. Zuko then held the mask out to her.]

If he taught you that, then he didn't need this anymore, and neither do I. You can keep it.

[ Weiss reaches for the mask to take it back gingerly. Part of her is relieved, that she still has something that she and her Zuko shared together. She'd been prepared to give it up, because this person was Zuko, even if he wasn't the Zuko with memories of her. ]

Thank you, Zuko. I'll keep it safe.

[ For probably the first time since they've started talking, an earnest smile pulls to her lips. ]

I know it's terrifying being in another world, especially one where there's a lot of technology you haven't got experience with, but just know you have someone you can trust and rely on here.

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