[ It's a jarring contrast, but it's also a reminder that this is the way friendships are built and torn apart. In tiny moments, in secrets shared or swallowed down. Since he's chosen Korra, he's aware that something has passed between him and Yin -- a subtle split, an inelegant falling away. Maybe it is necessary, maybe not, but it's happened. He knows they both sense it. ]
[ Even so, something shutters and falls closed in his expression. On anyone else, it might look like sadness, but Hei doesn't do emotionally compromised, he doesn't do blatant disappointment. Not in Yin, especially when she owes him nothing. Not in this. ]
[ He slips his hands into his pockets, regarding, not Yin, but the shimmering glow of the pool, pink sunlight falling along the ghostly wavering contours of the fish. ]
I'm leaving Air Temple Island in two weeks. There's too much of this place we don't know about. It's high time for a reconnaissance-run.
[ Terse and matter-of-fact, because that priority hasn't changed either. Hei hates being in the dark about anything. Hates feeling flat-footed. He needs to immerse himself in the intricacies of Korra's world, to let its history and present politics steep into him, if he's going to make the successful transition from newcomer to native. ]
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Date: 2014-05-02 12:45 am (UTC)[ Even so, something shutters and falls closed in his expression. On anyone else, it might look like sadness, but Hei doesn't do emotionally compromised, he doesn't do blatant disappointment. Not in Yin, especially when she owes him nothing. Not in this. ]
[ He slips his hands into his pockets, regarding, not Yin, but the shimmering glow of the pool, pink sunlight falling along the ghostly wavering contours of the fish. ]
I'm leaving Air Temple Island in two weeks. There's too much of this place we don't know about. It's high time for a reconnaissance-run.
[ Terse and matter-of-fact, because that priority hasn't changed either. Hei hates being in the dark about anything. Hates feeling flat-footed. He needs to immerse himself in the intricacies of Korra's world, to let its history and present politics steep into him, if he's going to make the successful transition from newcomer to native. ]