(Focused is better. I tend to grind up my sicklier fics for drabbles. Which is most of them.)
"Suki asked me to come in early."
Mai stopped polishing.
"For... private lessons."
The hand that gripped the knife now held it with new purpose.
"It's all right," said Ty Lee.
The acrobat looked around their room, divided straight down the middle. A bucket caught raindrops leaking in from the roof. Servants had slept in better conditions back home, but it was theirs and it was safe.
In which Mai and Ty Lee totally misread the situation b/c of previous life experience...
"Suki asked me to come in early."
Mai stopped polishing.
"For... private lessons."
The hand that gripped the knife now held it with new purpose.
"It's all right," said Ty Lee.
The acrobat looked around their room, divided straight down the middle. A bucket caught raindrops leaking in from the roof. Servants had slept in better conditions back home, but it was theirs and it was safe.
"I'll be fine. Okay?"
Head bowed, Mai resumed polishing her knives.