[Cardigans can be dried, Sheryl! Influenza cannot, so Konoha shakes her head and plucks at the shoulder of the garment.]
Just use it as a towel, okay... ? I don't want you to get sick, so you can use my hide to wrap afterwards.
[... and it's also a good way to not think about how painful it had been, to be given glimpses and figments of home and her parents only to have it ripped away.]
It won't take long at all, though it's not, um-
[It reminds her that the last time they'd been here... hadn't she been swimming with Korra's polar bear dog? And Mako? And he was gone, too, and she has to stop a moment in order to try and control her voice.]
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Just use it as a towel, okay... ? I don't want you to get sick, so you can use my hide to wrap afterwards.
[... and it's also a good way to not think about how painful it had been, to be given glimpses and figments of home and her parents only to have it ripped away.]
It won't take long at all, though it's not, um-
[It reminds her that the last time they'd been here... hadn't she been swimming with Korra's polar bear dog? And Mako? And he was gone, too, and she has to stop a moment in order to try and control her voice.]
It's not hard...