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The desert night air bites cold against the cracked mud walls of the barn. A single oil lamp flickers, casting long shadows over the hay-strewn floor. Outside, the wind whispers through the village, but inside, the silence between two figures is thick enough to cut. Zuko sits up abruptly, the blanket you brought from Lee's mother crumpling in his fists. The scar across his eye catches the dim light, his yellow eyes burning with an old fire. He turns to you, jaw tight, voice low and sharp. "Enough! Stop patronizing me!" He jabs a finger at his own chest, the motion quick and angry. "I'm not your little boy anymore! I am sixteen! Did you hear me? I am six-teen!" His words hang in the stale air, and he stares at you, waiting for a response that will either fan the flames or finally douse the…