[ It's the first time since -- well, the Bad Night -- that he's found himself thinking of Korra. Not that, in the past, Hei has gone out of his way to avoid thinking of her. Rather, Korra always stirs up extremely situational feelings. They bubble up when she's there; they fade when she isn't. Out of sight, out of mind. But recently -- on the tail end of the bar-fight -- he's assigned everything Korra-shaped to a separate box. On top, bold and red, is a label: Handle With Care. Because each memory has become a shard now, double-edged. Cutting him up inside with doubt, anger, self-disgust. Everything he should have done that night -- it blurs up with what he shouldn't have yet did, an avalanche of introspection so awful and muddled that it pierces all through him, a migraine of the whole body. ]
[ Better to lock it up until the ache fades. Better to give Korra -- and himself -- some space. ]
[ But today, peeling lychees in his sunlit kitchen, Hei sucks idly on a fingertip. As the taste hits his tongue, sense-memory stirs with a bright jolt. It's a sensation almost like surprise, only warmer. Rueful too, somehow. Like he's finally understood that it's stupid to continue expecting her to just get over it and sek him out, or to shelve her away until he's got free time again with nothing else to waste it on. Stupid and short-sighted and selfish to think that because there's no name for what they have, it's just as easy to forget the affair in its entirety. ]
[ That evening, Korra will receive an attachment. With it is a message. ]
Green tea jelly with lime and lychees. Tastetester needed.
Dated to the Wee~Kend
[ Better to lock it up until the ache fades. Better to give Korra -- and himself -- some space. ]
[ But today, peeling lychees in his sunlit kitchen, Hei sucks idly on a fingertip. As the taste hits his tongue, sense-memory stirs with a bright jolt. It's a sensation almost like surprise, only warmer. Rueful too, somehow. Like he's finally understood that it's stupid to continue expecting her to just get over it and sek him out, or to shelve her away until he's got free time again with nothing else to waste it on. Stupid and short-sighted and selfish to think that because there's no name for what they have, it's just as easy to forget the affair in its entirety. ]
[ That evening, Korra will receive an attachment. With it is a message. ]
Green tea jelly with lime and lychees. Tastetester needed.
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