No, I'm... fine. There's something strangely cathartic about actually talking about it after all this time. I thought it would just be better to bury it all, but...

[he trails off, not entirely sure how to finish that. ... he'll change the subject. just let him take a bite and then chew it, swallow...]

I know why it's a power people would want, anyway, even if I personally found it abhorrent. My brother took to it much better than I did, but I'm almost certain he was more powerful than Yakone was in his prime, before he was arrested and had his bending taken.