...I don't claim that my own past is spotless but the point is I'm trying to do better. And, might I add, I never had to use bending in my chosen career at all and you still seem to think that's how I got ahead.

[He sighs. At this point, part of him would rather just give up on Noatak, but he still has some loyalty left to his family.]

We've spent twenty-six years apart. Are you interested at all in the possibility that there might ever be something other than animosity between us? Because if you want us to be enemies, we can be.