You're right. It's not easy. I get hurt to think about it. And as happy as she can be here, and as happy as I am to know her... I can feel guilty too, for feeling that with everything she's separated from, here. [It almost makes him glad in a sense, how abruptly people can disappear from here. Because if there was a choice... he doesn't want to think of how hard it could be to let Ikki go.]

I'll tell her she can talk to whoever she wants to... out of you and me and Katara and some of the others. I know that... I'll have to deal with this myself if I have to. Even if it's not easy.