[ Because Night Vale. You do what you're told, including bleeding to get out of the station where you work and signing your soul to less than reputable corporations, sometimes. ]

The corporation uses English and Chinese almost exclusively, so that is probably what you're able to read. Other languages are forbidden, though I have met more than one employee of theirs from the other side of the barrier who has managed a phrase in their native tongue here or there.

[ That last bit makes him pause and look at Mako though, a little more critically than before. ]

You... are not considering signing a contract, are you? You said that you were a friend of Korra's.

[ Was that a lie or does Korra just have some really shift friends these days? ]