[ Hei doesn't answer her right away. Glass crunches under his boot soles as he takes a step back. Leans against the edge of the shattered bartop, his hands shoved in his pockets. His face is blank when he stares at Korra. But it's neither shields nor shuttering. Instead the gaze unspools, vague and unbroken as if some switch inside him has been flipped; he seems far away, lost in his own depths. The expression might as well be the glassy dead eyes of a corpse. ]
Chekov -- [ He struggles to focus, to let the foul memory of just seconds ago fade; but it clings around him with a palpable sizzle. The vein in his temple throbs. But what she's asking is more important. He blinks, then points a single finger at the rooftop. Up there. The past few evenings since Yin's absence, replaying themselves in his mind, make him cringe. What kind of a venal jackass is he really, to be so unkind to this girl? Sure, she's pugnacious and annoying, and makes him want to smack her sometimes ... they don't make punk rock songs out of circumstances like that for nothing. But there's something to it that isn't all bad. At least, when one party is an Avatar and the other a ... monster. Stands to reason. ]
[ Why keep fucking that up? Why be so cruel to her, over and over? It's himself he's condemning, not her. ]
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Chekov -- [ He struggles to focus, to let the foul memory of just seconds ago fade; but it clings around him with a palpable sizzle. The vein in his temple throbs. But what she's asking is more important. He blinks, then points a single finger at the rooftop. Up there. The past few evenings since Yin's absence, replaying themselves in his mind, make him cringe. What kind of a venal jackass is he really, to be so unkind to this girl? Sure, she's pugnacious and annoying, and makes him want to smack her sometimes ... they don't make punk rock songs out of circumstances like that for nothing. But there's something to it that isn't all bad. At least, when one party is an Avatar and the other a ... monster. Stands to reason. ]
[ Why keep fucking that up? Why be so cruel to her, over and over? It's himself he's condemning, not her. ]