With his hands feeling better now, he pulled them away a little, running his thumbs over his palms that he had cut with his own fingers. That had been his own doing, too. Even if unintentional.

"Even if it isn't, I feel it inside me. You don't know the things I did, Katara." I'm not sure I can bear if it you did. "It's not like looking at what another me did. It's not just... memories that were made up by the Malnosso. It was real and I remember every choice I made. I remember thinking that they made perfect sense when I did them."