Demeaning chores pt2

-----So last chapter had a fight scene, I don't think I can write very good fight scene, so feel free to tell me about how to improve them or something. I guess just more description maybe? Like 'I stepped a foot forward and blasted a bolt of fire'. Except I still feel like that misses something. Anyway onto the chapter.-----

The Maid girl was hella suspicious, and with how she acted. She was doing something strange. My guess were sex or she was an assassin. I doubted she was actually having sex though. Telling that she gave me this box of berries.

Making my way to the dusty unseen room that help the washing tub for Laundry. I dumped my clothes into the tub first. Finding some soup on the wall I threw it into the tub as well. The Tub had a hand crank to sort of rotate the clothes through the soup and water. I also cracked open the Cherry plum box to test my suspicious. I could heal myself from poison...Probably.

To be honest I knew even if these were poisoned they wouldn't kill the princess since she of course had a role to play. If she died that would just be sort of really fucked up. So I assumed some dues ex machina had her back. Truth of the matter was I was hungry suspicious and a little bored. So eating possible poisoned fruit like a food based Russian roulette. Where I would also be able to test whether or not I could heal poison. Seemed fine enough with me.

Cranking the laundry was incredibly slow so I just picked up Azula's clothes and dumped it into another tub. She had incredibly boring underwear. Thinking about it, The world of avatar didn't have any of the more advance type of underwear. Perhaps I should create some? Would I even know how to though...

I stopped cranking the two tubs to finally try one of the cherry plums. They still had the pit in them and were very wet. They didn't have the normal sour taste associated with them. They were definitely poisoned..."Well that was easy to find out. They still taste alright though..."

What should I even do now? Bring the poisoned fruit to Azula and tell her about it? Now I just felt weird, and excited. The fact she was in fact trying to assassinate Azula. Was really interesting.I ate a few more of the cherry plums and finished the Laundry.

I shoved all the clothes into one basket and ran up the stairs to Azula's place. Pushing open the door with a little too much force the door swung open and only for me to regret my excitement. Azula was standing in front of her bed putting on her shirt. She wasn't naked, however she was in the middle of putting on a nightgown.

I slowly backed out of the room and closed the door behind me. I sighed, this was regrettable. I needed to prepare myself to punch Azula, if she decided to kill me. I would need to scatter and just get rid of her entirely. I did like her, but she was also very much a obstacle. What to do...I checked my notifications seeing that she had a stat change.

I was a little terrified my self seeing her stats. I was even more worried what the fuck the +5 affection meant. Azula however opened the door seconds later. "Get in here NOW!"

"Sure right, well. Sorry about that, I was a little excited."

She slammed the door behind her and sat down on the bed. "Why are you excited? Are you excited enough to have your fingers removed?"

"Wow, not even trying with a subtle threat... Well these cherry plums are poisoned, your maid gave me them to bring them to you. However I ate them because it was suspicious as hell and I wanted to find out."

She looked at me with a completely dumbfounded expression and I saw her stats change and a sigh of relief left me.

The extreme change in her attitude worked out fine for me. "You were excited...to what?"

"Well its my first time actually seeing an assassination attempt. I mean that is what this is right? I realize this is a little stupid to be exited about. I still think its interesting, I mean is a very badly prepared attempt though. I think she she tried to pour the liquid on it and that didn't really soak in."

Azula just continued to glare at me, intertwining her fingers together. "I have now realized that...Let me get this straight. My personal maid Aragonia poured some kind of poisonous substance on my cherry plums. In which I eat as my personal snack. She then tells you to deliver them to me in her stead. You then take them down into the dusty laundry room, in which...You seemingly washed our clothes together. Placing them into one basket carrying them up here in a rush. In which you finally barge into my room without knocking. To see me thankfully not naked, but in the middle of dressing myself for the night. All because you were excited to see a possible assassination attempt on my life?"

"Well, I mean, It didn't really have to be your life to make me excited."

"I would've stabbed you in your eyes if I was actually still dressing."

"Cool, but what's gonna happen with the cherry plums."

She just stared at me, still confused. "Honestly, I am amused at your antics. However you will be punished for not only eating my snack, but also for washing my clothes with your rags."

"No punishment for the barging in?"

She sighed, "I feel like this conversation is punishment enough. I will handle my maid, just leave. Before you go however...Why would you eat something you think was poisoned?"

I couldn't legitimately answer that. Truth was I was confident it wouldn't kill me as long as I healed myself, However my healing abilities came from the water lion turtle, which I couldn't really mention. Since that would bring up the question of how was i blessed by a ancient and dead spirit.

Azula would likely see through my lie, but it was better to bullshit then to tell the truth. "I was worried I guess? If you died, I would've failed my job. So it was better to bite the bullet and take the risk."

She stared at me and more notifications occurred.

It was an interesting mixture of changes, however she spoke and continued. "Bullet huh? Well, Thank you Orin... Take this."

She pulled a drawer open from her nightstand and tossed it to me. "It is the antidote to the poison she used. I knew she was eventually going to do this. I just didn't suspect...your involvement. You amuse me Orin...Keep up the good work." I think I brightened slightly due to her words, because she added, "You will be punished tomorrow however."

Even with the added mention of my punishment. She seemed...Relaxed and had even thanked me. I rotated the antidote in my hands. A small vial of liquid, it was anti-venom. I guess this decided how I would treat Azula moving on. I would help her unconditionally, even if it meant attacking Aang and friends. She had a chance of redemption, hopefully I wouldn't regret this.