Tahno wasn't angry anymore. He didn't have the energy for rage or hate. Bitterness and self-pity were even becoming too much. His mind was slipping and he knew it.
His bending was gone. His bending, his job, his friends...they had all left him. His looks had even slipped away. He didn't care about vanity anymore. Why would he when no one was looking?
So he sat, slouched in a bench in the Police Headquarters, staring blankly at the floor and waiting to be interrogated.
Hearing a soft sigh he glanced to his right. The Avatar was staring at her own reflection in the shiny wooden floors, an unreadable expression on her face.
"Hey Korra," Tahno monotoned, his voice wavering. She turned to look at him surprise flashing in her blue eyes.
"Tahno?" she asked, sitting down next to him, her eyes never leaving his. For whatever reason Tahno felt a stab of embarrassment price him.
"Listen," she continued, "I know we're not best friends or anything...but I'm sorry Amon took your bending."
She looked sorry. She honestly did. Her voice was colored with guilt and concern and pity.
"I've been to the best healers in the City...what Amon did to me...it was permanent."
It was the first time Tahno had said it out loud. That his bending was gone and no one could do anything to bring it back.
"You gotta get him for me," he added suddenly, strength returning momentarily to his voice as he gazed at Korra.
She nodded, determination flooding her eyes. As if she was promising that, if the time came and she was delivering that final blow, her mind would be on him.
And she looked at him. She really looked at him. Not as the pro bender, but as a person. Just like she had the day in the restaurant.
Tahno straightened, a small spark lighting in his chest.
Councilman Tenzin and Cheif Bei Fong approached them, leading a portly man. They exchanged a few words but Tahno wasn't listening. His eyes were on Korra.
She could do it. If she really tried, she could take Amon down. But not alone.
His mind drifted back to hazy summer days spent with his grandmother in the park, listening to stories about the Avatar and his friends stopping the Fire Nation. About the brave warriors Sokka and Suki, and how, even without bending they had stood against the Fire Nation. They had fought, and they had won.
"We're ready for you now," Tenzin said, glancing over his shoulder at Tahno as he walked away.
Tahno stood up, raising his hand in parting, "See you later...Uhvatar," he added with a weak smile. Korra returned the expression with a grin of her own and he walked away, running a hand through his hair.
Maybe, just maybe, he hadn't lost everything.