She's lower on the ladder than Kite, that's for sure. There used to be someone else, Su Geming, before Kite took over completely.
But he, uh, might be dead. Or demoted. [Korra just looks sort of uncomfortable about the whole thing.] I'm not sure which one--with Yao Corp it could be either.
Kite thinks he was too nice to us. [Can you hear the scoff in her voice?]
Something happened when I first got here. People started getting sick, losing control of their powers... Geming sent some scientists in with medicine.
[Now there's definitely some tension in Korra's shoulders, made more obvious by the way she crosses her arms.]
Some of the people in here took the scientists hostage, tortured them for information, and then used them as bargaining chips for Yao. They had a list of demands, and Geming gave us most of them.
We didn't used to have running water in the apartments, and Pyramid Head just sort of wandered around the place instead of staying right by the store. Stuff like that.
Kite took over right after that, said Geming messed up. And we haven't seen him since.
[he looks concerned-- and he wants to ask who was involved, but it sounded like there were a few. And who even knew if they were still around, based off what he'd heard about leaving.
And based off what he'd heard about Yao Corp, he'd be even more surprised.
Still, he hesitates before placing a hand on her shoulder]
I'm sorry.
[for what? he's not sure, but it looked like she could use the words.]
[She gives him a fleeting smile, putting her hand on his briefly and taking some comfort from it. Whatever had happened between them in that year she's missing, he still cares about her--and that's good enough for her.]
You said...it's been a year since the Equalist thing.
[Though she's a little hesitant to ask, she's also extremely curious.]
[he pauses-- remembering what Wan asked him. So he'd just... avoid that, unless she asked him directly. He pulled his hand back and shrugged slightly]
Asami managed to turn Future Industries around, Bolin's a mover star, and I'm a cop.
There's new airbenders everywhere, and we were helping you find them. I tracked down reports all over the Earth Kingdom, though I'm thinking Ba Sing Se might be the hardest place to find anything yet.
They slammed the door right in his face. The only thing that's managed to work so far was Bo's showmanship idea-- and that's because the airbender we caught was trying to escape from the law.
[as a cop and former street rat, Mako has Issues with Kai.
Also, Kai stole his wallet and he had a lot of money in that thing.]
He must be disappointed. [Thinking about her mentor brings a sad smile to her face. She's missed him, and everyone else, in this place.] But...that's why we're still out there looking for more people, right?
[Enough about the air benders, though. Mako had said something that caught her interest earlier.]
Sooo you're a cop now. What happened to probending? And what's a mover star supposed to be?
Movers are this new invention-- they're basically walking, talking pictures on a big screen. Bolin got picked to star in these movies... Nuktuk, hero of the south. [can you hear the sarcasm dripping off his voice?
Oh man, there's so much sarcasm dripping off his voice about his brother pretending to be a Southern Water Tribe waterbender on the silver screen.]
And-- well... You saw how it was. It was a great job [and that's all it ever was, to him] but it wasn't stable. Beifong offered me a job as a beat cop, and the pay was enough to get a place for me in Bo and have enough money left over for food.
I'm pretty good at it-- I got promoted to detective recently.
So...sort of like the video functions on these phones. [Korra pats the pocket with the phone, frowning a little. She doesn't really understand what a mover is supposed to look like, but it all sounds interesting. Nuktuk, Hero of the South is a dramatic enough title to keep Bolin's interest, at least.]
I'm glad. [Korra speaks up suddenly, smiling a little.] I admit, I'm sorta disappointed we're not probending together anymore, but it sounds like you and Bolin are doing really, really well. I'm happy for you.
[After being in Haven for a while, Korra's learned to take the good news as they come.]
[he gives her a similar smile. It was kind of sad, but at the same time, he preferred the stability being a cop provided, and Lin Beifong was the best boss he'd ever had.
She allowed just the right amount of BS, which was none at all.]
We couldn't keep the Avatar on our team forever.
... And you're right. Just think on a bigger scale.
[he almost responds to that, but then she stops, and his attention focuses back on what they came out there to do.
She wasn't kidding when she said pyramid head. It almost looked like a dead body whose head had been replaced with an oversized metal pyramid-- Mako couldn't imaging how the thing was still standing. Between the pyramid and its giant cleaver, he figured most people would be unbalanced-- at best.
I call it Pyramid Jerk--still taking suggestions for other, worse things to call it, actually.
[She's...only half kidding.
They've stopped a short distance away, close enough to get a good look at the monster, but not near enough to make it move. And it's staying that way, if Korra has anything to say about it. Even so, she can still feel a prickling at her skin, as if Pyramid Head's watching them, just waiting for them to step close enough to push it into action.
[Mako nods at it-- and then looks back at Korra. His lack of experience with it just made him less likely to really react-- he'd already stored away the knowledge that Pyramid head was dangerous, and he had no interest in provoking it.
Yet.
He nudges her]
Hey. Let's not stick around here too long. I saw the monster, and I know he;s dangerous and shouldn't be messed with.
[Korra jolts, staring at Mako for a second as if she's surprised to see him, then seems to shake herself out of the thoughts she'd gotten lost in.]
...yeah. Let's go.
[She leads him away from the store, always keeping Pyramid Head in sight until they've put enough distance between them for her to relax slightly.]
The tunnels aren't too far from here. People go up to North to find supplies and use the library--pretty sure North is where Yao's dropping the "better supplies" they promised. Why give it to us directly when they can make us work for it?
Anyway, be careful if you head up there a lot. You can't stay there for more than a few hours without starting to feel the effects.
[he knew he wanted to get to the library-- if that place had writing, maybe he could find something to write down all this extra information he'd been storing.
He could only hope.
He nodded to the rest, but left his question there]
Uh, you start feeling really jittery and nervous. Kind of like something's making you want to leave?
[There's a questioning lilt to the end of her sentence, as she tries to recall exactly how it had felt. She hasn't really tried to push the time limit since the first couple of months.]
The people who've been here longer said staying there for too long can make you go crazy.
[he was thinking from a pure 'I just watched you destroy the spirit of darkness.' standpoint. Even if Korra didn't remember it, he knew she was a force to be reckoned with and testing the limits of... well... crazy...
He had a few doubts]
You're the Avatar. If it does make you go crazy, you could do a lot of damage really quickly.
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And that brought up the next question]
Matilda is one of the people in charge, like Kite?
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But he, uh, might be dead. Or demoted. [Korra just looks sort of uncomfortable about the whole thing.] I'm not sure which one--with Yao Corp it could be either.
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Something happened when I first got here. People started getting sick, losing control of their powers... Geming sent some scientists in with medicine.
[Now there's definitely some tension in Korra's shoulders, made more obvious by the way she crosses her arms.]
Some of the people in here took the scientists hostage, tortured them for information, and then used them as bargaining chips for Yao. They had a list of demands, and Geming gave us most of them.
We didn't used to have running water in the apartments, and Pyramid Head just sort of wandered around the place instead of staying right by the store. Stuff like that.
Kite took over right after that, said Geming messed up. And we haven't seen him since.
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And based off what he'd heard about Yao Corp, he'd be even more surprised.
Still, he hesitates before placing a hand on her shoulder]
I'm sorry.
[for what? he's not sure, but it looked like she could use the words.]
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You said...it's been a year since the Equalist thing.
[Though she's a little hesitant to ask, she's also extremely curious.]
What's everyone been doing?
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[he pauses-- remembering what Wan asked him. So he'd just... avoid that, unless she asked him directly. He pulled his hand back and shrugged slightly]
Asami managed to turn Future Industries around, Bolin's a mover star, and I'm a cop.
There's new airbenders everywhere, and we were helping you find them. I tracked down reports all over the Earth Kingdom, though I'm thinking Ba Sing Se might be the hardest place to find anything yet.
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So I do get to travel! [Instantly perking up here. Just like the Avatars before her!]
And new air benders? That's...amazing! I--I bet Aang's going to be excited when we tell him. How's Tenzin taking it all?
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He tried to bribe one of them into becoming an air nomad by telling him they'd have an air bison as a best friend.
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That's Tenzin for you. It didn't work, did it?
[But it totally should have. Air bison are awesome.]
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[as a cop and former street rat, Mako has Issues with Kai.
Also, Kai stole his wallet and he had a lot of money in that thing.]
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[Enough about the air benders, though. Mako had said something that caught her interest earlier.]
Sooo you're a cop now. What happened to probending? And what's a mover star supposed to be?
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Oh man, there's so much sarcasm dripping off his voice about his brother pretending to be a Southern Water Tribe waterbender on the silver screen.]
And-- well... You saw how it was. It was a great job [and that's all it ever was, to him] but it wasn't stable. Beifong offered me a job as a beat cop, and the pay was enough to get a place for me in Bo and have enough money left over for food.
I'm pretty good at it-- I got promoted to detective recently.
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I'm glad. [Korra speaks up suddenly, smiling a little.] I admit, I'm sorta disappointed we're not probending together anymore, but it sounds like you and Bolin are doing really, really well. I'm happy for you.
[After being in Haven for a while, Korra's learned to take the good news as they come.]
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[he gives her a similar smile. It was kind of sad, but at the same time, he preferred the stability being a cop provided, and Lin Beifong was the best boss he'd ever had.
She allowed just the right amount of BS, which was none at all.]
We couldn't keep the Avatar on our team forever.
... And you're right. Just think on a bigger scale.
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[Until Amon blew up the arena, that is.
She doesn't say anything more a little while, but stops short when the store comes into view.]
We're here. You can see it right by the entrance.
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She wasn't kidding when she said pyramid head. It almost looked like a dead body whose head had been replaced with an oversized metal pyramid-- Mako couldn't imaging how the thing was still standing. Between the pyramid and its giant cleaver, he figured most people would be unbalanced-- at best.
And that was the thing that kept coming back...]
You weren't kidding about the name.
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[She's...only half kidding.
They've stopped a short distance away, close enough to get a good look at the monster, but not near enough to make it move. And it's staying that way, if Korra has anything to say about it. Even so, she can still feel a prickling at her skin, as if Pyramid Head's watching them, just waiting for them to step close enough to push it into action.
Korra glares at it, entire body tense.]
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Yet.
He nudges her]
Hey. Let's not stick around here too long. I saw the monster, and I know he;s dangerous and shouldn't be messed with.
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...yeah. Let's go.
[She leads him away from the store, always keeping Pyramid Head in sight until they've put enough distance between them for her to relax slightly.]
The tunnels aren't too far from here. People go up to North to find supplies and use the library--pretty sure North is where Yao's dropping the "better supplies" they promised. Why give it to us directly when they can make us work for it?
Anyway, be careful if you head up there a lot. You can't stay there for more than a few hours without starting to feel the effects.
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[he knew he wanted to get to the library-- if that place had writing, maybe he could find something to write down all this extra information he'd been storing.
He could only hope.
He nodded to the rest, but left his question there]
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[There's a questioning lilt to the end of her sentence, as she tries to recall exactly how it had felt. She hasn't really tried to push the time limit since the first couple of months.]
The people who've been here longer said staying there for too long can make you go crazy.
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Though he's still not sure HOW they can do what they do... it was worth noting.]
... You didn't test that, did you?
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Uh...no?
[She actually hasn't, but then there's that "experiment" she and Derek have been talking about...]
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[he was thinking from a pure 'I just watched you destroy the spirit of darkness.' standpoint. Even if Korra didn't remember it, he knew she was a force to be reckoned with and testing the limits of... well... crazy...
He had a few doubts]
You're the Avatar. If it does make you go crazy, you could do a lot of damage really quickly.
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