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[jerkbends]

You have no idea how weird this is. I'm-- he's eighty-seven years old. That's seventy-one years from now, in the future!

First you keep me behind ten years while everyone else is aged up in this place, and now you let me-- him in that head of yours. Can't you just... agh--can't you just put him... away?

Don't get me wrong, with everyone showing up as they are ... from the future ... this shouldn't even-- I don't know-- be that big of a surprise or weird. But it is! The new Avatar I can handle, the fact that I have a daughter who takes my place as the Fire Lord- not a problem, but this.....................................?

( Defeated sigh. )

Some days... I really don't understand you...

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[downer]

What for?

[ Although she almost doesn't want to know. Sometimes he ends up apologizing for more than he needs to. She tucks her limbs tightly into herself. ]

[jerkbends]

For... thinking what I did. ( Not that they ever talked about this sort of thing, still being 'young' and all. )

[downer]

You didn't know. [ Besides, as much as she likes to think she could raise her own baby right, she can't even handle Tom-Tom half the time.

Her face droops briefly as she looks for a way to change the subject. And then a sigh. ]

You think I aged well..? [ She doesn't want to see herself... old... ]

[jerkbends]

I bet you're still as beautiful as the day we met.

( Normally not one to say such SAPPY GUSH WORTHY things-- he does mean it. Just like he meant it when she's so beautiful when she hates the world.

He gently nudges her arm with his elbow. )

[downer]

[ Mai rubs her arm where he nudges it, but WHAT A NICE, SAPPY THING TO SAY..... so she doesn't seem to mind all that much. ]

We were pretty young then, you know.

[jerkbends]

( Zuko slips an arm around her shoulders, pulling her in against his side. He's smooth that way. )

We were... but look at where we are now.