I'm sure Jinora would've understood. [ A beat. ] If you'd tried.
[ Is Korra even capable of firmness with kids? He doesn't know. There's a lot he doesn't know about her still. A whole labyrinth of secrets it would curdle her blood if she knew about him. It's so risky, this whole arrangement. So much at stake. In so many ways, he's at her mercy. She'll be putting their affair, a highly volatile element at the best of times, out of the frying pan and into the fire. How would he do, suddenly confronted by her world, by a whole keep full of her friends and family? What would she do? The real world -- Korra's world -- would only begin to encroach on this private little illusion of theirs. Start to make it impossible. ]
[ So many doubts. So much uncertainty. But Hei isn't one to stop halfway. Reaching out, he helps corral the yipping pack of cats and dogs. A polite, human, absolutely normal gesture he'd have disdained to attempt before. In a neutral tone, ]
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[ Is Korra even capable of firmness with kids? He doesn't know. There's a lot he doesn't know about her still. A whole labyrinth of secrets it would curdle her blood if she knew about him. It's so risky, this whole arrangement. So much at stake. In so many ways, he's at her mercy. She'll be putting their affair, a highly volatile element at the best of times, out of the frying pan and into the fire. How would he do, suddenly confronted by her world, by a whole keep full of her friends and family? What would she do? The real world -- Korra's world -- would only begin to encroach on this private little illusion of theirs. Start to make it impossible. ]
[ So many doubts. So much uncertainty. But Hei isn't one to stop halfway. Reaching out, he helps corral the yipping pack of cats and dogs. A polite, human, absolutely normal gesture he'd have disdained to attempt before. In a neutral tone, ]
I hope that's everything.