"No," Azula says, "I won't forgive you, Zuko, you stole everything I had!"

Zuko is nowhere near her as she says this, but her mind believes him right next to her, an echo she sizes upon, because to admit that he is not there would be to admit to the defeat that she cannot bear to acknowledge.

"I forgive you, Azula," Zuko says to her, "even though you turned out just like father did."