[As soon as Bucky gives him space to enter the house, Sokka ushers himself in; nothing in this world feels safe, but he was able to eat a whole breakfast in this space without being accosted, so it's the closest thing he has to a camp or other temporarily living space. Besides, anything to get away from the woman, who Sokka is kind of regretting not pulling a boomerang on, because the way she was talking, it almost seemed like she thinks Bucky is his father — and that is too much. Way too much.]
No, I'm not okay.
[This is grumbled, a little petulantly. It's not like Sokka can go into detail on why all of this is terrible, on what's at stake back home. The fact that Sokka hasn't taken out his boomerang again shows that he has accepted that Bucky is, at least, preferable to some of the people outside; not safe, but better than the woman who dragged him around and treated him like a child. Sokka is — not just some kid! He's not Bucky's kid. But accepting that he might need to stay around Bucky a while longer doesn't mean Sokka can talk in detail about the Avatar, or his sister, or his actual dad being held captive somewhere.
Sokka rubs his eyes with the heels of hands and tries to make himself focus. Bucky's questions are good ones, and Sokka could use a sounding board anyway, so he isn't going to waste time getting caught in the weeds. Winging it did not work; this is so much bigger and so much worse than Sokka originally thought. He needs to think — and go back to being a planner.]
Four that I counted, but there are probably more. [It was easy to identify them, by passing them by and listening to their conversations.] No one that I knew. [This is a good thing, because Sokka doesn't want the others stuck here with him, but his voice still betrays a little emotion as he says it, because Sokka has never really been alone. He's never really been without Katara.]
Here.
[Sokka reaches to the back of his pajama pants and pulls out a newspaper, which he then holds out to Bucky. They need to pool their information together. Bucky has a better understanding of this place than Sokka does, so Sokka needs to share what he knows to see if any of it makes more sense to Bucky than it does to him. Also, Bucky may not have fought in his war, but he fought in a war, which means he has experience in defense. He has a knife stashed somewhere smart and he's been doing — something in Sokka's absence. Sokka might be able to use that, too.]
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No, I'm not okay.
[This is grumbled, a little petulantly. It's not like Sokka can go into detail on why all of this is terrible, on what's at stake back home. The fact that Sokka hasn't taken out his boomerang again shows that he has accepted that Bucky is, at least, preferable to some of the people outside; not safe, but better than the woman who dragged him around and treated him like a child. Sokka is — not just some kid! He's not Bucky's kid. But accepting that he might need to stay around Bucky a while longer doesn't mean Sokka can talk in detail about the Avatar, or his sister, or his actual dad being held captive somewhere.
Sokka rubs his eyes with the heels of hands and tries to make himself focus. Bucky's questions are good ones, and Sokka could use a sounding board anyway, so he isn't going to waste time getting caught in the weeds. Winging it did not work; this is so much bigger and so much worse than Sokka originally thought. He needs to think — and go back to being a planner.]
Four that I counted, but there are probably more. [It was easy to identify them, by passing them by and listening to their conversations.] No one that I knew. [This is a good thing, because Sokka doesn't want the others stuck here with him, but his voice still betrays a little emotion as he says it, because Sokka has never really been alone. He's never really been without Katara.]
Here.
[Sokka reaches to the back of his pajama pants and pulls out a newspaper, which he then holds out to Bucky. They need to pool their information together. Bucky has a better understanding of this place than Sokka does, so Sokka needs to share what he knows to see if any of it makes more sense to Bucky than it does to him. Also, Bucky may not have fought in his war, but he fought in a war, which means he has experience in defense. He has a knife stashed somewhere smart and he's been doing — something in Sokka's absence. Sokka might be able to use that, too.]