This is it, she thinks. She thought she had lost everything, but she was wrong.
She sentenced herself to this fate, losing the one last thing she had left, when she spit out the words, "I'm not telling you anything, you monster."
"Very well."
She's completely helpless, but despite the situation she's in, she's not afraid. She's literally going to lose the last thing she has, her bending – she's lost her job, her honor, her home, all the ones she loved.
Lin Beifong has only loved two people in her life.
One was Tenzin. She remembers when they were children she would always be able to beat him in a sparring match, and that's all they were – playmates and rivals. But as they grew older, feelings grew, and one day, it just happened. They were teenagers, they found themselves exploring their new-found feelings with a kiss.
But in the long run, she couldn't give him what he wanted, even though she never stopped loving him, not once. But now he was gone. It seemed fitting that she would lose everything for him – it's not like it was the first time it's happened.
Before Tenzin, though, the first person she loved, of course, was her mother, Toph. The fondest memories of her life were when she was a child and her mother taught her first, how to "see" the way she did – with her bending, rather than her eyes. Then came the first day she moved a rock. It was just a pebble, but the joyful look on her mother's face was the greatest reward she could have received.
"That's my girl," she had said with pride.
Metalbending was so much more difficult. She could feel the fragments of earth she was so used to bending, but just couldn't get them to budge. But she wanted to do it, for her mom, so she persevered through the sweat and tears, and bent the coin in half.
She had never seen her mother look so proud.
Did I make you proud, Mom? She thinks.
Lin feels Amon's cold, clammy hands on her neck and forehead, and feels the energy being drained from her. She despairs, as what she feels is the last connection she has to her mother is sucked from her body.
Mom, I'm so sorry.
And she can almost hear Toph's voice whispering in her ear, "My beautiful daughter – tough as nails."
A/N: This moment in the show had me tearing up. Poor Lin.
