[ Despite his encyclopaedic repertoire of rejoinders, there's nothing Hei can say to that. ]
[ Instead, he feels the chill glazing her expression, her voice, and thinks: oh God. He keeps thinking it, in every inflection possible, his mind struggling as if through bracken and nettles, splashing through a muddy stream of doubt, cresting one hill and then another. It begins to beat with his heart: oh God, oh God. ]
[ Because suddenly, the rationales and reason burn it down to the bare bones. One way or another, she knows about the arrangement between him and Korra. What follows is a flare of ... more shame? No, it isn't even that. It is something more desultory and cringing. It is embarrassment. (That, in itself, is bizarre. He and Yin are comrades. Friends. They've made no promises; the loyalty he feels for her is of a different kind. The I will fight for you kind. The I'll always have your back kind. In her state, so fragile, her mind scooped of all but the faintest traces of independance, anything else would be wrong. Exploitative. So why --? ) ]
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[ Instead, he feels the chill glazing her expression, her voice, and thinks: oh God. He keeps thinking it, in every inflection possible, his mind struggling as if through bracken and nettles, splashing through a muddy stream of doubt, cresting one hill and then another. It begins to beat with his heart: oh God, oh God. ]
[ Because suddenly, the rationales and reason burn it down to the bare bones. One way or another, she knows about the arrangement between him and Korra. What follows is a flare of ... more shame? No, it isn't even that. It is something more desultory and cringing. It is embarrassment. (That, in itself, is bizarre. He and Yin are comrades. Friends. They've made no promises; the loyalty he feels for her is of a different kind. The I will fight for you kind. The I'll always have your back kind. In her state, so fragile, her mind scooped of all but the faintest traces of independance, anything else would be wrong. Exploitative. So why --? ) ]
[ So why did I kiss her? ]