[ Well, it's better than Wu's plan, which was to make Varian firebend, but clearly that isn't happening any time soon. He lets out a cry as a crab starts climbing up his arms, and he throws them off with as much strength as he has before he grabs Varian by the arm and tries to haul him up with his arm around his shoulders. ]
We can try! We can, we can get there. We can get out--
[ The panic isn't ebbing at all. In fact, it's growing, because the fire was a boon, it was hope, and now Wu is pretty sure they're going to get eaten by carnivorous crabs and he's not ready for that.
He holds back a shaky sob, doing his best to drag Varian up-- but that's when something strange happens, at least for Varian.
Wu's being taken back to the last time he had to escape, with little hope of succeeding, when he was hurried out of the palace in Ba Sing Se the day that Zaheer killed Queen Hou-Ting. He was terrified then, too, and trying his best to be quiet, to hold back his tears, to do what the Dai Li told him and get out of the city. The scene flashes in Varian's mind, from Wu's perspective of being shushed and hidden. He peered around them to see chaos, to see flames licking ancient tapestries, to hear shouts of "the Queen is dead!"
Then the scene abruptly ends as Wu takes another shaky breath ]
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[ Well, it's better than Wu's plan, which was to make Varian firebend, but clearly that isn't happening any time soon. He lets out a cry as a crab starts climbing up his arms, and he throws them off with as much strength as he has before he grabs Varian by the arm and tries to haul him up with his arm around his shoulders. ]
We can try! We can, we can get there. We can get out--
[ The panic isn't ebbing at all. In fact, it's growing, because the fire was a boon, it was hope, and now Wu is pretty sure they're going to get eaten by carnivorous crabs and he's not ready for that.
He holds back a shaky sob, doing his best to drag Varian up-- but that's when something strange happens, at least for Varian.
Wu's being taken back to the last time he had to escape, with little hope of succeeding, when he was hurried out of the palace in Ba Sing Se the day that Zaheer killed Queen Hou-Ting. He was terrified then, too, and trying his best to be quiet, to hold back his tears, to do what the Dai Li told him and get out of the city. The scene flashes in Varian's mind, from Wu's perspective of being shushed and hidden. He peered around them to see chaos, to see flames licking ancient tapestries, to hear shouts of "the Queen is dead!"
Then the scene abruptly ends as Wu takes another shaky breath ]
We can do this. Come on, Varian! Use your leg!