Lu Ten is about five years younger than Ozai, so he's about fifteen-sixteen here. Not one of his shining moments.
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Uncle Ozai has a lover, and it's not Lu Ten. Which is probably why three-quarters of the guards cower away from him, his mother isn't speaking to him, and the servants walk on glass around him.
Lu Ten is miserable of seeing Ozai with his guardsman, of their little not-very-secret touches, of the fierce delight in Ozai's face when he and Li Kazai spar together.
It's made him a snarling horror to be around, and he can't even tell anyone why he's behaving this way. Because Ozai is his uncle, and that means it doesn't matter that Ozai is his only equal or that Ozai is beautiful like a dragon in flight.
Lu Ten hates Kazai for having what he cannot. He'd love an excuse to challenge the older man to an Agni Kai, but he is never less than utterly respectful to Lu Ten.
It's Mother who gives him the answer in a note, because she is still not speaking to him but she wants him to be happy. 'See that your grandfather hears that Ozai has a male lover, and that your father hears the lover's name.'
Ozai/Lu Ten
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Uncle Ozai has a lover, and it's not Lu Ten. Which is probably why three-quarters of the guards cower away from him, his mother isn't speaking to him, and the servants walk on glass around him.
Lu Ten is miserable of seeing Ozai with his guardsman, of their little not-very-secret touches, of the fierce delight in Ozai's face when he and Li Kazai spar together.
It's made him a snarling horror to be around, and he can't even tell anyone why he's behaving this way. Because Ozai is his uncle, and that means it doesn't matter that Ozai is his only equal or that Ozai is beautiful like a dragon in flight.
Lu Ten hates Kazai for having what he cannot. He'd love an excuse to challenge the older man to an Agni Kai, but he is never less than utterly respectful to Lu Ten.
It's Mother who gives him the answer in a note, because she is still not speaking to him but she wants him to be happy. 'See that your grandfather hears that Ozai has a male lover, and that your father hears the lover's name.'