The Princess and the Peasant - (An Azula Epic)

The Chancellor's Scheme

The following day.

Azula sat in her throne with her arms resting on the side of her throne while she gazed ahead at the approaching chancellor.

"Good day, Princess Azula." Terak greeted as he prostrated himself on the floor while the princess stared at him with cold amber golden eyes.

"I can only hope that you are not wasting my time, Chancellor." Azula remarked in an imperious voice as she leaned into the palm of her hand while the man arose to his feet.

As she impassively watched the smiling man quickly make his way forward.

She knew that her father had grown to dislike him as of late.

But she could certainly see why.

He had a way of making every little interaction longer than it needed to be.

"Waste? I do not waste time. I came to tell you something important. Very important." Terak stated as he walked forward with a crafty smile on his lips.

"And what might that be?" Azula sighed in a bored voice as the man came to a stop before her.

"I come to confess that I have committed a grievous crime." Terak announced in a tone of feigned guilt while the princess turned to him with surprised amber golden eyes.

"What? A crime?" Azula asked with her brows furrowing in curiosity while she eyed the chancellor carefully.

This man was more complicated than she had once taken him to be.

Up until the last day she has always just thought of him as just another simpering politician slinking about in the background.

"I am crippled with guilt, Princess. I submit myself to your judgement. Whip me! Beat me! Execute me! I don't deserve mercy!" Terak exclaimed with a hand over his face while Azula now rolled her eyes against the palm of her hand.

"Oh, very well. I suppose I will play along. What is the nature of your crime?" Azula pondered with amusement in her voice while she observed the man retrieve yet another rolled up document.

"Oh! The guilt! I can't bear to live with it any longer!" Terak cried out in a theatrical voice while the princess sighed into her open palm.

Only to find herself gazing on in grudging curiosity when the document was thrust into her lap.

"If you continue annoying me with that feigned remorse than I really...is this the Fire Lord's seal?" Azula demanded with a more frigid look in her amber golden eyes while she stared hard at the man shifting on his feet.

"Hm. It is. I...may have taken it from his study by mistake. Punish me as you see fit! I deserve nothing less!" Terak spoke in a rushed manner as he took a nervous step back when the blue fire lining the room sparked with greater ferocity.

"You stole from your Fire Lord! My father! And then you come to tell me about it!" Azula bellowed with her amber golden eyes narrowing into a truly dangerous glare.

'Just what is the chancellor playing at? Why would he...what is this?' Azula thought as she found herself gazing down at the rolled-up document in reluctant curiosity.

The seal was already broken because the politician had already taken a peek at it.

Her amber golden eyes glared back at the recoiling man once more before she began to open it with an intuitive finger.

"I eagerly await your divine judgement, Princess. But perhaps...you would like to look at it first? You can always kill me afterward." Terak suggested with a finger under his chin while the princess's callous eyes burned a hole in his skull.