( the idea of mako understanding is. novel, and sweet, but entirely impossible. he knows he probably wants to understand, and dick wants nothing more than to - you know, share with someone, confide in them, have a friend who just listens bloodlessly without sense of betrayal. but it's more than just his own secrets he's keeping - bruce and the others all have an unspoken pact with each other, to protect one another above all else. dick wouldn't compromise their safety for anything, and spilling out truth about being an airbender spills a hundred more truths about where he lives, who he lives with, why he lives there.

he goes a little starry eyed at the mention of tenzin - everything that happened with aang was a century old when he sprung up again, and dick's family's bitterness at the loss of the avatar had melted into forgiveness over the years. he only idolizes tenzin, sees him continuing the airbending bloodline where dick, just. can't. )

Uh, yeah. I've only ever dreamed about it forever. ( forever says too much, but. he can talk his way out of that one, if he has to. ) But ... my situation, it's. Complicated. I have too many obligations to pack up and ... kind of selfishly, in a way, pursue that.