*closes her eyes and a tear slides down her face* So much pain. You just … /so/ much. Why so /much/? As if no good thing you ever did could be set against it. Such a terrible shadow.
You who saved us all … and this is how you repay yourself.
Please. Don’t cry for me. I am not a hero.
No one understands that.
Yinsen. He was a hero.
You won’t cry for your pain. I can’t help it. It’s … you’re hurting so much, and I can’t help but hear it, share it. What is a hero anyway? A person who is willing to give up their life for others?
Yinsen knew who I was. He could have let me die for what I’d done, and what I’d put him and his family through. He could have used me to escape. But he didn’t.
Someone that selfless… That good is a hero.
I’m nowhere near that.
You ask anyone on the team and they’ll tell you the same.
*softly* It’s a high standard. I don’t know enough … you don’t believe you’ve done anything good in your life? Is it not heroic to keep trying to be good after everything?