[ Her tone says it as though it's a simple answer, almost flippant. She's a lot better at hiding things when she can cut herself off. But really? There's just protecting them, because she cares about them even if she never wanted to. Because she couldn't protect the last people she cared about. She was the only one who was always was left until the end, always getting saved when everyone else got hurt. It was exactly that she needed to protect them. That was something that Sokka definitely didn't need to know. ]
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[ Her tone says it as though it's a simple answer, almost flippant. She's a lot better at hiding things when she can cut herself off. But really? There's just protecting them, because she cares about them even if she never wanted to. Because she couldn't protect the last people she cared about. She was the only one who was always was left until the end, always getting saved when everyone else got hurt. It was exactly that she needed to protect them. That was something that Sokka definitely didn't need to know. ]