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She doesn't look innocent when she sleeps. Far from in fact, she's curled far more akin to a hound than a human, cheek cradled on her towel. Her wet hair is spread in the grass like blood, her scarred back turned towards a small fire that leaps and jumps tiredly in the growing night.

There's a plate with lunch on it as well, a sandwich with a few bites taken, a bit of fruit...it seems that the call to sleep was too great after her swim though...so, Rachel is asleep by the lake, there's room enough at the fire for more though.

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"You don't really PAINT the iron ships. You can, but..." he shakes his head. THEY never bothered t pain them. IT was silly! They were ugly and fearsome without paint!

"The iron ships in my worlds were painted" she teased "Mainly to keep them from rusting I think, but also they had their names on them and usaully a symbol or two so the sailors could have team spirit I guess..."

"Team spirit?" Yeah, he looks at you a little funny for that. Who needs team spirit on a BOAT? "If you say so."

"Nope, no idea" she admitted happily "Just can't really think of another reason that each boat gets a seperate symbol, and the guys on the boats cling to such...like flags. Flags are weird too"

He shrugs simply. "I had my nation's flag in my room," he says. But that was sort of a punishment-- always reminding him that he wasn't home, that he was... far away...

"I never understood them. It's just...a symbol. It doesn't breath, it doesn't speak...anything a nation is based on should be ingrained. No one should have to look at a piece of cloth to remember" she sighed.

"They make decent shirts though"

Zuko can't agree here; he knows what it stood for. The people he loved, he wanted to protect. The Land he wasn't allowed to see anymore.

"Symbols are important to people," he says after a minute. "It can help them visualize and look toward a lot of things."

But, wait. "Shirts?"

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