[ Zuko knew Rin was being nice — optimistic, even. But the idea of settling down was still sitting ill with him, and he needed to swallow the feeling. If there were dishes to do today, something to clean, that’s what he’d eagerly agree to. But talking about lining up a job down the road? Right now, it was irksome. He still wanted to delude himself into thinking he could escape still; he just wanted to put it out of his mind for now for the sake of trying to be good company. Cuz, uh, unfortunately, this has more or less been Zuko on good behavior. He stopped shouting, after all. ]

Does everyone band together like this here, or is it just you? I would’ve imagined people would faction off, turn against each other... Don’t they?