[... It's strange, seeing Korra, of all people, admit to being tired. Not that she doesn't have the right, but Fujimaru hadn't thought her to be the kind of person to admit that sort of weakness.
It says a lot about how exhausted she must be, to reveal that vulnerability.]
... Poison isn't necessarily something you just bounce back from. You might never get better.
[If he were someone gentler, he might've comforted Korra, assured her that she'd definitely be able to walk again if she kept trying. He's not a gentle person, though, or an optimistic one. He's lucky in that now, no one would be able to tell from looking at him just how much he'd struggled to survive, but he's seen what poison does to others. Like Ken, who never got better and whom Fujimaru has had to watch, as he's wasted away from it.
He doesn't believe that it's a given that Korra will recover, and so he won't lie to her and give her false comfort. It never really helps.
... That said, he doesn't intend to crush her hope and give her a reason to lie in defeat, either.]
Is it frustrating?
["Or are you too tired to even care anymore?"
Because even though he doesn't believe in getting her hopes up, he knows what being 'tired' can do to a person. He knows that sometimes, it's something intangible that ruins you, and depending on how she answers, he'll do everything he can to make sure Korra doesn't fall as far as he did.]
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It says a lot about how exhausted she must be, to reveal that vulnerability.]
... Poison isn't necessarily something you just bounce back from. You might never get better.
[If he were someone gentler, he might've comforted Korra, assured her that she'd definitely be able to walk again if she kept trying. He's not a gentle person, though, or an optimistic one. He's lucky in that now, no one would be able to tell from looking at him just how much he'd struggled to survive, but he's seen what poison does to others. Like Ken, who never got better and whom Fujimaru has had to watch, as he's wasted away from it.
He doesn't believe that it's a given that Korra will recover, and so he won't lie to her and give her false comfort. It never really helps.
... That said, he doesn't intend to crush her hope and give her a reason to lie in defeat, either.]
Is it frustrating?
["Or are you too tired to even care anymore?"
Because even though he doesn't believe in getting her hopes up, he knows what being 'tired' can do to a person. He knows that sometimes, it's something intangible that ruins you, and depending on how she answers, he'll do everything he can to make sure Korra doesn't fall as far as he did.]