"We'd have to think you're a burden for you to be one, Bumi," Suyin immediately replies, with a furrow of her brow. She supposes this is where the distance they've kept for years comes into play. She knows she wasn't the most reliable person growing up in Republic City, and perhaps that's why some of them haven't kept contact.

Either way, it's strange that someone so full of confidence would immediately think the worst of himself like this. A little reassurance may help here, she thinks. "I can assure you now, you are no such thing."