He doesn't think she's lying. But to have stayed near them, with all that was going on in his head and his heart, what he might have said or done to them...

Better to leave.

Even when Mel's tone and her words and the thought of his nieces forgetting him just hurts.


This whole conversation is worse than Sokka expected it to be. And he expected it to be bad.

"What do you want me to say, Mel? You want me to come back tomorrow?"