[Her fears were not entirely unfounded- Yizhi looks vaguely Earth Kingdom, though his hair and robes and styled similarly but not quite the same, and didn’t Azula bust a hole in Ba Sing Se while riding a giant bore drill?

But the worst doesn’t come to pass. Yizhi takes a deep breath, swallows his chaotic feelings, and lowers his hand with an apologetic smile.]

I’m sorry, I mistook you for someone else I know.

[hahahaha okay moving on. He really wants to ask her name, for confirmation that this is no one he knows, but that feels a little weird. He doesn’t want to come across like he’s trying to turn this into a meet-cute, y’know, that’s the worst thing you could do for the kind of girls Yizhi is into (dislikes flirting, prefers violence).]

So… is that gun going to help you a lot? Doesn’t the Department supply officials with weapons?