Exasperated. Zuko's grasped a still rather clouded understanding of how digital currency works, and while he understands it's not actual money physically inside the phone, he doesn't exactly get that it's attached to the account, rather than the particular phone. If he lost all his money by accidentally burning it back home, the money is gone, right; that's his logic. So while he knows it's immaterial, he still can't take that final leap of logic. He's protected his phone from two dragons in the many months he's been here, and Iroh burned his to a crisp on his second day. He doesn't have hopes that the cell phone store workers can give Iroh back all the money he just burned, in Zuko's mind, but he at least needs a new phone to start earning more again... He pulls up directions to the nearest cell phone store on his own phone and turns on his heel to leave, waiting for Iroh only after a few paces down the hall if the man doesn't follow him immediately.
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Exasperated. Zuko's grasped a still rather clouded understanding of how digital currency works, and while he understands it's not actual money physically inside the phone, he doesn't exactly get that it's attached to the account, rather than the particular phone. If he lost all his money by accidentally burning it back home, the money is gone, right; that's his logic. So while he knows it's immaterial, he still can't take that final leap of logic. He's protected his phone from two dragons in the many months he's been here, and Iroh burned his to a crisp on his second day. He doesn't have hopes that the cell phone store workers can give Iroh back all the money he just burned, in Zuko's mind, but he at least needs a new phone to start earning more again... He pulls up directions to the nearest cell phone store on his own phone and turns on his heel to leave, waiting for Iroh only after a few paces down the hall if the man doesn't follow him immediately.