[Stop directing the Omni away from your face, Mako! Lysithea knows what's happening here. Equally, she knows that calling attention to it would simply make Mako more uncomfortable, so she'll give Zuko the attention she deserves.

This mostly just means a short 'aww' sound.]

Symbolic metaphor stuff?

I don't know if it's so complicated. I have a dream I want to follow here - crystallized by a prompt from somebody who possibly knows me a bit too well at this point.

And you... well, you have the chance to follow a dream, too, right? The Raccoon Room - teaching. What is it you want to follow?