everything changed the day the fire nation attacked

He was so conflicted inside. He was supposed to have loyalty to his family but he felt so… disregarded. Not by Pyrrhic, not by Eligos, but knowing his whole goal in life could so easily be ripped out from beneath him… Iroh looked to his paws, he felt uncertain for the first time in his life. He wanted to run to Banshee, surely she could offer him sound advice or at least a shoulder to lean on.

When he heard paw steps he was half certain he was going to look up and see her white marked face. Iroh didn’t mean for his face to fall as heavily as it did when he recognized his cousin. Blue and lavender eyes fell back to his paws as his cousin padded over quietly and settled down in front of him.

”Hey,” He answered more softly than his voice ever got. His cousin was right, there was something wrong with the yearling. But Iroh wasn’t even sure he could put his paw pad on it. ”I don’t know.” Iroh admitted, not knowing if he was alright or not. He didn’t feel like it. He felt broken. ”Nothing feels right.”