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ACT ONE. a game of cat-deer and mouse! CHAPTER xvii. ❛ A GOLDEN CAGE IS STILL A CAGE! ❜
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zuko's ship, earth kingdom waters.
WHEN JING-HAI WOKE THE MORNING AFTER HER FEVER, she feared she may still be hallucinating. Because waking up in the spoiled Prince's arms? That was certainly not real. It couldn't be. With sunlight in her eyes and ginger in her mouth, the girl begun to slowly comprehend where it was she was. His hammock. The events of the storm come raining down on her almost as hard as the hail and the lightning. Zuko had almost drowned. That was the last she remembered, as well as that terrible chill. She knew not how to qualm it. But Iroh did. The mystery tea had cured her. And not only that, it had replenished her entirely. She was glowing. Oh, how she loved that ridiculous old man!
But the boy whose chest she was currently laying on?
That was a whole other tale.
Making sure she didn't wake him (it'd be far too awkward otherwise), Jing-hai untangles her limbs from his and creeps out onto the lower deck.
