Naminé balked at the question, shrinking toward her shoulders as one might expect a teenager to. "Well, that's not-- exactly the case, no."

But what was the case she seemed to struggle to articulate, opening her mouth once and then shutting it, teacup held in both hands as she stared at it with faroff eyes. Her return to the present didn't take too long, however, and her brow pinched slightly as she refocused on Iroh.

"It's more that I... don't think I can say that I've ever loved someone, exactly, or even that I know what it should feel like. There are many people that I care about, but-- I've never used that word for it before." And given her already complicated relationship with emotions in general... the semantics of it become even more of a mess.