Zuko understands that it isn't a request or a 'maybe.' She'd been far less patient when she showed up. "You'll get your explanation, I promise." If not from her, then certainly from someone else. It might be better from someone else; she isn't good at breaking things gently.

"The hospital's just past the onsen." Which may not be the strangest zoning decision, but probably not a sentence he would normally hear. "Not much farther."

And it's probably lucky for him that he arrived today and not during any of the past few days, when their healers would have had their hands full with the plague. The sick haven't fully recovered yet, but they need a lot less attention now, she's sure. Everyone in general is a lot less stressed out.