Raven is still on her feet, and those crossed arms serve to put yet another barrier between them, the way she'd been doing since she left, even when she dropped by, thinking he wouldn't notice. But he almost always knew when she was nearby, even in bird form. When your wife could turn into a bird at will, you got pretty familiar with exactly what that bird looked like.
Tai gets to his feet, ignoring Zwei's protests and crosses the room, so he's more on an eye level with Raven, even if there's still space between them. If they were going to talk about this, talk about his daughters, one of whom was hers, then they were going to be on equal footing.
Everything Raven was telling him…., it just got worse and worse, didn't it? Oz being back should have been some comfort, but he knows it's not that simple, that there's a hell of a lot involved with that, including whoever was carrying him…., Ironwood…., Tai hadn't seen James Ironwood in a while, but he'd hoped the man he had known, the man who had sent Yang a state-of-the-art prosthetic without even being asked could be counted on.
Salem had a maiden on her side, there was one in Atlas…., and now Ruby was fighting all of those forces combined.
Of course, there was always the possibility that Raven was lying….., but there wouldn't be any point to that. No, she was telling him the truth, which made it all that much worse.
"I know you think I'm crazy for wanting to go towards all of that," he started, and there was fire behind his eyes, steel in his voice, "But our daughter is there, in all of that. And don't you dare try to lie to me, to tell me that you don't care, that she made her choice and has to live with it. You wouldn't be here if you truly didn't care."
He takes another step towards Raven, closing the distance between them, so that he doesn't have to raise his voice as he asks again, "Why are you really here?"