[The meeting at Awa and then her talk with Ik-soo about it is the extent of how much she's dealt with her present issues about this right now, leaving Yona with no room to manage in his presence now like they eventually will in the Water Tribe. There's not exactly a common goal right now, either.
So seeing him stops her short in the worst of ways, obvious shock in her eyes, almost tempted to take off if it wasn't for a very irrational (or perhaps not so irrational at all, all things considered) sense of--