[For a long moment, she continues to hold herself taught with tension, poised like any moment there will be some kind of fight, like she wouldn't be completely useless if there was. The tension breaks, when he finally squats beside her, and moves to play in the water, her arms coming to circle her legs and draw them up to her chest in a loose hold. It doesn't happen immediately, and she won't look at him as she does it, but slowly she leans just a little bit towards him.
Once she can feel his arm against her shoulder, the side of his knee against the joint of her wrist, drawing strength from his presence, even as she beats herself up internally for the weakness, she chances a small apologetic smile]
Careful, Cool Guy, or you'll get frost bite and then where will you be? I can't even heal.
[The nickname is soft spoken, something she's only used once before. Back when she had first met him, and been in awe of his probending skills, back when he was just that firebender who drove her crazy and they had to search for Bolin. Back when Amon was a threat that meant nothing to her. Before she'd learned to be afraid.
It feels strange to miss it, when she doesn't want to go back to a time when she didn't know any of them at all. She feels a measure of guilt, and it soothes her temper at his next bout of encouragement. He took her help that time with more grace than she's ever afforded him.
She doesn't know what's wrong with her]
You have a lot of faith in me. It doesn't feel like anything's different, I'm working really hard at it! I practice- It's hours Mako and- It's like airbending all over again. [It took her sixteen years to even be able to bend it at all, and for all his faith in her abilities, she wonders if she's ended up disappointing him. Like she's done with the rest of the world.
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Once she can feel his arm against her shoulder, the side of his knee against the joint of her wrist, drawing strength from his presence, even as she beats herself up internally for the weakness, she chances a small apologetic smile]
Careful, Cool Guy, or you'll get frost bite and then where will you be? I can't even heal.
[The nickname is soft spoken, something she's only used once before. Back when she had first met him, and been in awe of his probending skills, back when he was just that firebender who drove her crazy and they had to search for Bolin. Back when Amon was a threat that meant nothing to her. Before she'd learned to be afraid.
It feels strange to miss it, when she doesn't want to go back to a time when she didn't know any of them at all. She feels a measure of guilt, and it soothes her temper at his next bout of encouragement. He took her help that time with more grace than she's ever afforded him.
She doesn't know what's wrong with her]
You have a lot of faith in me. It doesn't feel like anything's different, I'm working really hard at it! I practice- It's hours Mako and- It's like airbending all over again. [It took her sixteen years to even be able to bend it at all, and for all his faith in her abilities, she wonders if she's ended up disappointing him. Like she's done with the rest of the world.
No one had use for an Avatar that couldn't bend]