Aang's reaction did little to make this any easier, but it did give Zuko a bit of pride and an off-kilter joy that he still garnered such respect and shock and it manifested as a brief smirk across the the ex-prince's face.

Smirk intact, Zuko did his best to defuse the situation, "Relax, catching you wouldn't do me any benefit, here or anywhere."

However, he lost that smirk once he realized that he was asked what might possibly be the most obvious question and Zuko switched back to his traditional, slightly-miffed self.

"You think I wanted to come here? Everyone just wakes up at the city gates and gets stuck here, there's people complaining all over the message boards or did you pass up that or and just 'avatar' in here?"

Actually, He hadn't thought about that much, but there was a very high chance he was stuck in some sort of spiritual mix-up and that the Avatar would have just avatar'd in here and maybe he knew a way out.

Zuko dropped his tone just in case he was ruining his chance at escaping and continued the conversation, "I don't remember her name just that she was some earth kingdom girl with a big mouth and no vision."