[For a moment, he worries about the tentative wall between the person speaking to Aang now and the anonymous person baring his heart over the journals. The pain he felt that day is sharp in his memory - in part because it hasn't subsided since then - but the specific words he wrote are blurrier.]
it's cool, I did kinda throw a surprise villainous monologue at you
So don't preach to me like you do know.