[Video]

[daughterofursa]

I hope that's right.

[Viewers may recognize the view from balcony on the Tower of Winds as the backdrop. As Zuko draws back from setting up the camera, she doesn't completely position herself inside the frame, but for someone who's never really done this... at least you can see most of her head.]

I know everyone's looking forward to the festival. I think we've earned it. But I also think we need to keep taking advantage of the Queen's inaction.

Some of us are more prepared for a fight than others. While I don't think anyone should be forced to fight if it isn't in their nature, for those who choose to, I can teach sword techniques and hand-to-hand combat. You can find me out on the bridge every morning.

I think it would be a good idea for others to share what they know, too. We could use more healers--

[If she was going to conclude with anything else, she's interrupted by a tiny growl. The video shakes violently, coming to a stop pointed skyward. A blurry dragon face noses the camera and then the whole view is blocked out as Kizuna sits atop her defeated foe.]

Kizuna. Did you switch it off?

[Some scuffling and indistinct images follow before the feed actually does shut off.]

Comments

[Voice]

[break_the_ice]

I'm happy to offer advice on Marksmanship, but I don't know if we've actually got many firearms besides my own... And mine will only fire for me.

But I could probably use a few more lessons with a sword besides "hit the guy with the sharp end."

[Voice]

[daughterofursa]

I could definitely give you more pointers than that.

What do you mean by "firearms"?

[Zuko isn't familiar with all the terminology for guns. She knows... "guns." Also bazookas.]

[Voice]

[break_the_ice]

Firearms are long range weapons. Pistols, Rifles, that sort of thing. Like... advanced crossbows?

I'd forgotten that you're not from a world where they've been developed.

[Voice]

[daughterofursa]

Oh. The ones that fire bullets?

Are those any good against shadows?

[break_the_ice]

Mine haven't failed to drop anything yet.

But... mine are a little special. Relics of the golden age, and designed explicitly to fight the Darkness. I can't be sure if a regular gun will do anything.

[daughterofursa]

We should find out. Having a ranged weapon might be better for some people.

[break_the_ice]

Guns are easier to use than swords, much easier. Difficult to master, but it doesn't take an expert to point a gun at what you want to kill, and pull the trigger.

But it requires a lot of training to be safe. There's nothing more dangerous than someone waving around a gun that doesn't know what they're doing.

[daughterofursa]

You could say that of any weapon.

[break_the_ice]

Yes, but not just any weapon can accidentally kill someone half a kilometer away because some idiot can't keep their finger off a two centimeter piece of metal.

[daughterofursa]

...

I guess not.

[break_the_ice]

I'm not trying to dismiss you, Zuko. That came out harsh. It's just something everyone in the vanguard gets drilled into them early.

Know where you're aiming. Know what you might hit. And keep your finger off the trigger. Because anywhere you point your weapon, you have to assume that anything in front of it will die. Whether you want it to or not.

A gun is a dangerous weapon even to people staying away from the fight.

[daughterofursa]

At least it's a weapon you can take away.

[break_the_ice]

That's very true. Just as a gun can kill anything in front of it, it cannot harm anything except what it's pointing at. ... With a couple of exceptions if you've got a very specialized one.

But I don't know if we have many guns here besides mine. I haven't seen any.

[daughterofursa]

Ikuri has a really huge one.

Yukio uses guns when he's older, but- the one here is just a kid.