[Ego-stroke executed! Well done, self, this may counteract implying that fans seem like silly weapons.

There's a brief hesitation -- there's still a little reluctance to get serious combat training -- but she relents.] ...Sure. I already let Sokka show me a few things to get him off my case about learning to defend myself, [by "on her case" read: he told her that she should a few times over nearly a full year] but I think he'd prefer it this way.