I don't know. I'm sorry. [ He wishes there were a way to say some kind of magic words that would make everything better. Maybe if he keeps having to wish for it enough as time goes by here, eventually something will make it happen. Opportunities sure haven't been in short supply. What good is it doing him not to turn his back on people when they're down if he can't even help them in the first place?
Bolin swallows against a lump in his throat and shuts his eyes. He can understand what she's saying, he can understand the reasons (because out of everyone, when it comes to Mako, Korra has to be the closest person to understanding what he's feeling: and in that vein, he must be closest to understanding her end of things), even if he can't really understand what it's like to feel that way at the same time.
It's hard to imagine wanting someone dead. Harder to imagine wanting to do it personally. But he's never been good at that kind of thing anyway, even when he's probably needed to be. ]
But I think-- [ He tightens his grip in turn, because life would be so much easier if loving people enough made their problems go away, and because he's tired of the way this place keeps hurting them. ]
I think there isn't anything wrong with being scared right now. [ All three of them are scared right now, or he's pretty sure that's the case. Frankly, if it's wrong, he doesn't want to be right. ] And I think if knowing you want to do it hurts this much... you kind of know that you really don't want to want to. And that's- that's a good thing, right?
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Bolin swallows against a lump in his throat and shuts his eyes. He can understand what she's saying, he can understand the reasons (because out of everyone, when it comes to Mako, Korra has to be the closest person to understanding what he's feeling: and in that vein, he must be closest to understanding her end of things), even if he can't really understand what it's like to feel that way at the same time.
It's hard to imagine wanting someone dead. Harder to imagine wanting to do it personally. But he's never been good at that kind of thing anyway, even when he's probably needed to be. ]
But I think-- [ He tightens his grip in turn, because life would be so much easier if loving people enough made their problems go away, and because he's tired of the way this place keeps hurting them. ]
I think there isn't anything wrong with being scared right now. [ All three of them are scared right now, or he's pretty sure that's the case. Frankly, if it's wrong, he doesn't want to be right. ] And I think if knowing you want to do it hurts this much... you kind of know that you really don't want to want to. And that's- that's a good thing, right?