Kiyomitsu's cheeks flush a bit. He had meant a small boy, like 3 feet tall or something! But he's not about to correct the older man, since he seemed to like the compliment well enough.

"I guess it's true that humans can and do change, but it's usually not very radically. I don't know, it's just hard to picture someone like you a couple of decades ago acting the polar opposite of how you're acting now."

He thinks about what Iroh's background must have been in order for Iroh to feel that way about himself, though.

"If I can ask, does that mean you were at one point the aggressor in a war? Ah, I understand it might be an inappropriate question, so you don't have to answer if you don't want to."