--The whole world exploded?! [he yelps, because that is just too much to take.] How is that even possible?

It wasn't just me, it was me and the Avatar and a bunch of people. But... yeah, I think we did. It should be over now aside from a lot of politics and assassination attempts. [He says this relatively matter-of-factly. Zuko might not like politics, but they were a fact of his life, and the assassination attempts even moreso.]