"I understand," he said with a thoughtful nod and a slight smile at the Zuko comment. "It's too hard to imagine a me and you who couldn't get along. No matter what you did... It might just take more time." It might be too much to hope for more than that for the hypothetical scenario. But if there were such alternate versions of themselves somewhere out there, it was a small comfort enough that they'd still be able to just know each other and get along.

And he added to the Zuko crack with a slight chuckle, "At least it'd help that you wouldn't start off chasing me around!"