with wings
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sokka doesn’t know when he forgot what his mother’s wings looked like. he knows that the forgetting didn’t happen all at once, that it was slow and quiet and insidious, just like he knows maybe forgetting isn’t the right term, knows being replaced might be more appropriate because when he tries to remember mom’s face all he sees is katara’s, and when he thinks of her wings—
when sokka thinks of his mother’s wings, he sees sleek brown feathers laced through with dull silver. he sees soft white undersides and chalky down. he sees juvenile plumage so very like his own, quiet and unassuming, on two long, sharply angled wings. he sees katara’s wings when he tries to think of his mother’s, and it stings like betrayal.
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- Part 1 of with wings
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[a rolling crack! of thunder jolts sokka awake. he groans, reaching up to scrub his face with his hands before forcing himself to sit. two people stand silhouetted against one of the windows, looking out at the storm. lightning flares across the sky again, chased by a roar of rippling noise.
oh, shit, sokka thinks. zuko.]
or: zuko learns what it means to have a flock, and sokka learns what it means to lose one.
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- Part 2 of with wings