But you're warm, he would've liked to say, and you're solid. I've never been able to touch you before, Izumi. Why now? What could have possibly changed? “Everything,” she replied to his silence. “Everything has changed.”
Tangled and breathing, they don't know what's happening. Not anymore.
This exchange between Zuko and the Painted Lady is one of my favorite things about For the Spirits' Chapter XII: To Feel Different (read here!). It exists on the verge of tenderness and sorrow (just as they do).











