"Zuko, I'd hope that were true, it's just..." How to explain things he wasn't there for? It wasn't even that she'd be enacting some evil scheme, just that the last time he met her - well after Zuko's timeframe, it seemed - she was...well. It had likely been better when she was categorically insane.

Who knew what waters she had found on the other side of seeing their mother again?

"I want to believe that, Zuko. I really do. But after all the times I've dealt with Azula..."