>Gryphon, I respect you too much to pull punches here. What's in
>evidence, so far, is the beginnings of romance. If that's not what
>happens...well, good. But that's what it looks like and that's what's
>squicking me.
>

See, I'm not sure where folks are coming to this from. I suspect you've surprised Gryphon with it. I saw it as not the beginnings of romance, but the beginnings of Korra realizing that, to anyone outside her own head, it could look a hell of a lot like romance. Before, it seemed she didn't fully see Corwin as he is now, so the idea was obviously laughable, but now she's turned a mental corner, can see him as a man grown, and bingo we have awkwardness.

She doesn't want him in that way, and she doesn't want anyone to think that she does, but she doesn't want to go all cold and professional (that just isn't Korra.) It's just she's damned unsure how to walk the right line, or even see the right line, to split the difference.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Just my view from the cheap seats."