Jeanne's smile is wan, but it's present. It's also almost a little lost, something that she lets show, if only because it's him next to her and not anyone else. ]
I don't. My choices remain. I am not backing down or away from them and will accept what comes to me for making them.
But I...
[ It has been harder for her to compartmentalize her feelings lately, and because she has a high chance of being voted for and because Soo-won is smart, perhaps he can notice how Jeanne reacts when other people call her by a name that he has not called her since the first time they met and perhaps what it means to lose that.
And perhaps, it is harder for Jeanne to compartmentalize her feelings because there is no longer a larger role and responsibility spelled out for her to compartmentalize into.
When it's only her and her own sense of duty without the extra armor that her class gives her. ]
It's difficult to say.
[ And even without that, it's still so hard for her to admit to some of her personal feelings. ]
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I'm ready.
[ To get her injuries treated. ]
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and so instead he says - ]
And if I decide I am not?
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[ But she hasn't let go of his hand yet, so. ]
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I don't believe you to have second thoughts on something you have already decided.
[zuko had told him - how impossible it had been to convince jeanne to not leave incriminating evidence. soo-won had known, that would be her way.
so what is it, that might get her to even delay?]
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Jeanne's smile is wan, but it's present. It's also almost a little lost, something that she lets show, if only because it's him next to her and not anyone else. ]
I don't. My choices remain. I am not backing down or away from them and will accept what comes to me for making them.
But I...
[ It has been harder for her to compartmentalize her feelings lately, and because she has a high chance of being voted for and because Soo-won is smart, perhaps he can notice how Jeanne reacts when other people call her by a name that he has not called her since the first time they met and perhaps what it means to lose that.
And perhaps, it is harder for Jeanne to compartmentalize her feelings because there is no longer a larger role and responsibility spelled out for her to compartmentalize into.
When it's only her and her own sense of duty without the extra armor that her class gives her. ]
It's difficult to say.
[ And even without that, it's still so hard for her to admit to some of her personal feelings. ]