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The Void is close to the edge of Mount Verla. The Pyrii refuse to leave and they have a week, maybe two at best, before they're swallowed by the Void.

They don't want to abandon their home. So I want to move it.

I need help. If you're willing to help, no matter where you are in the world, I can make sure you get here within a few hours. Respond privately and I'll tell you what needs to happen.

Please, we can buy them time. I just need help.

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The Void is close to the edge of Mount Verla. The Pyrii refuse to leave and they have a week, maybe two at best, before they're swallowed by the Void.

They don't want to abandon their home. So I want to move it.

I need help. I don't care what court you are. If you're willing to help, no matter where you are in the world, I can make sure you get here within a few hours. Respond privately and I'll tell you what needs to happen.

Please, we can buy them time. I just need help.

[Wan will not publically reply to public responses on either network.]

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And drown the world in darkness? That wouldn't help anyone.

[He says it in jest, but there's a slightly manic edge to it. He knew this was next to impossible with his power as cut off as it was. But it was all he could think of. It was a chance. It was hope.]

The Void is going to keep moving. Wherever you put Mount Verla, you're going to have to move it again.

[ stir, repeat; zuko's cynicism hasn't been burned away by wan's own attempt to get him on board. given all wan has to say is zuko, i need your help and he's there with bells on, he's a little difficult to convince when it comes to moving a volcano at the possible expense of the avatar. ]

What if it's tomorrow? What if you move the volcano and the Void just picks up speed because it has nothing to eat?

The void has a lot of land to eat first. And we can walk faster than it's moving.

[Assuming they could get the mountain off the ground, anyway.

He paused, but when he next spoke, his hopeful words were finally broken. All he had was the sad reality of truth.]

If the void gets so far south that we have to move the mountain again, then I don't know if we'll be able to stop it.

[ and this is why zuko wishes katara was here. she would be able to fix where zuko so easily breaks another's hope. ]

[ he doesn't mean to, though. so often, the best ideas comes from his negativity and refusal to have any hope. and, he's found, having someone to prove something to always does help with one's motivation to do better. maybe he's helping wan in the long run, but he can sense he isn't right now. there'll be enough time for him to be negative in the near future when he sees this plan implemented, but for now, he supposes he should act more like a friend and less like the prince who had been exiled for three years. ]

[ zuko sighs audibly, rubbing his fingers hard against his temple. he wishes uncle was here, too. he'd give wan some hope. but where he thinks to try and impersonate him, zuko opts for being himself this time. his voice is softer, no longer low. ]

You're the Avatar. You can do anything. [ he's seen it, first hand — his reincarnation in aang doing incredible things. it had to have stemmed from wan. he wouldn't have agreed to lend him a hand if he didn't believe in him. ] But we have to pick a good place to move it. You're not ... [ he hesitates for a moment. ] You're not at full power. You have to be careful.

We'll have to cross the Cul Lairid Orc. Bring it as close to mountains between Caer Scima and Baron Edgar's spire as we can.

[The confidence in his voice rose as he focused on the task at hand. He couldn't let this get to him. He couldn't give up. He had to try this.]

Can you cool the earth as we cross it? Take the heat out so we don't all burn our feet as we march?

I can try.

[ so often is he fighting fire with fire, he's sure he's once pulled it from a heat source to leave said source cold. it's another way for him to assist, when zuko feels as though all he can really do is bend any fire and teleport. bending the earth is far more important, but he realises that where he can't move rocks or even crack the earth and build tunnels like toph and wan, he can assist where wan's attention is fractured. ]

I wish I could teleport the whole volcano. It'd be easier.

[That got a smile to twist back into place on Wan's lips. Not a big one, and it remained sad, sober, but a smile all the same.]

I'm glad I can count on you, Zuko. You're the only reason this might be possible.

Me?

[ his own surprise is evident in the high pitch of his tone — and his own uncertainty. he's only ever really been given credit for being a failure. for pushing azula higher upon her pedestal, for opening ozai's eyes to how poorly he has grown. ]

You're the one who came up with this idea. I'm just making sure you don't get injuried ... too badly.

You can get people here fast. You can teleport. I don't think I know anyone else that can. We need to get as many here as possible that are willing to come help.

They could walk fast if they tried.

[ really tried. zuko knows he can — it may take a few days, but if someone was to really put their legs into it ... ]

[ it feels kind of nice, actually being of use. though he's not so sure if he could ever try and teleport with his bending, asking for it as a boon has been one of zuko's incredibly smart choices. he's just glad it can assist others, rather than only cutting out the middle man when it comes to travel times. ]

How many people haven't told you how horrible of an idea this is?

[ how many people does he have to hold hands with and play nice? ]

Six or seven.

[Which was actually a pretty decent number once he took the time to count.]

[ zuko pauses for a moment. ] Is that enough? Do they know how to bend — [ then he remembers how wan doesn't speak as hip as he does. ] move the earth?

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Some of them have earth magic. The ones that don't, I'll do my best to teach.

[Bending is such a strange word for it, Zuko! How can you not see that?]

[ he has really long bangs. ]

You can teach non-benders how to bend?

[ is that what he's saying? zuko's never heard of it — and if he has, he's forgotten it. benders are the only ones capable of manipulating their chosen element. katara could never manipulate fire just as he can never control water. but to think he could ... ]

[ his voice lifts from its low tone. ]

That's stupid!

[Wan gave him the most exasperated look he could manage across the Lockets.]

I can't give them the power of the elements. I can teach them to use magic in a similar way. It's not quite the same, but I spent a lot of time figuring out how to tap into the magic everyone in this world is supposed to have and use it to help give myself more power. And doing that, I was able to figure out how to use magic to imitate the power of the elements. I've already taught one person the basics of moving water. I'm pretty sure I can teach them earth, too.

[He just didn't think he could make it so they could use both elements at the same time. What he did because of Raava was not something he could pass on.]

[ it's amazing how cassie hasn't been here for over a year and that m word continues to haunt him. if anyone could assist wan in his pursuit to teach non-benders the ways of elemental movement, it would've been her. ]

And a quick lesson in how to move the earth with magic is going to be enough to move a volcano? [ where one would look at zuko and think he's being a negative nancy, he thinks he's simply being realistic. ] None of them are Toph. None of them are you. I couldn't even bend it like you and I know how to control an element.

Some of them already know how to move the earth. And even if the others who are learning can't do it well, every little bit of power that I don't have to find a way to drag out of myself helps. I don't know if it will be enough. All I can do is try.

[ trying. it's all zuko's done with his life — he's tried to be good, he's tried to be better, he's tried to be someone he isn't. where he wants wan to be prepared for the potential of being disappointed, zuko's involvement in this stems from that simple word. try. he can see he wants to try, and zuko, despite disbelieving this plan will work, can respect that. ]

[ he sighs. ]

I can't teleport seven people out of danger, Wan.

I'll tell them to leave before it gets to the point that you have to.

[At least as far as the void was concerned. The pyrii was another matter that Wan would deal with when the time came. For the moment, it was a potential problem he was willing to ignore.]

And if the Void moves quicker than they can run?

[ despite thinking he could, if he was to take two people at a time, zuko doubts he can teleport fast enough. that thing had snuck up on them without them even looking — and zuko's certain he's been facing that direction for the last few months of the previous year. ]

You can't bend it back. Nothing can stop it. You should just ... be prepared for the worst.

Then I'll build a wall to hold it's winds off long enough for them to run. It's powerful, but it's more like a tornado or a hurricane. And it moves a lot slower than one. The wall won't last, but it will block the winds long enough for them to get far enough that they won't be sucked in.

[Wan had already been close enough to it to feel the edge of those winds and he wasn't going to risk getting closer. If the void's approach got to the point he could feel it again, he wouldn't hesitate to send everyone else away.]

I'm not going to risk their lives against the Void, Zuko. I promise.

[ zuko rubs his temple really hard. but he thinks he knows wan would sacrifice himself if it meant those who had come in good faith to help him were spared. it's what aang would do; it's what zuko would do. ]

[ he sighs, but his voice is as strong as stone. ] The first sign of this failing, we're getting out of there.

[ he really means the tenth sign of them failing, as he's never given up in his life. even though it had appeared as though zuko would rather lay in defeat, he's always picked himself up to march onward. he knows wan has to be the same. why else would he take on such a great, impossible task if he wasn't keen on trying until his own fingers bled? ]

[First sign. Right. Sure. Wan could agree to that.

...]

You'll be here soon?

[No. He couldn't agree to that. So he didn't. He hoped the topic change wouldn't be terribly and completely obvious.]

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