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Hey, Zatanna, right?

Last time I checked.

Who's this again?

[She'd met so many people. Voice alone wasn't enough.]

Mako, Korra's friend.

Is this a bad time?

[It took all of a second to place the name to a face. Oh! One of the relatively recent arrivals.]

No worse than usual. What's up?

I've heard about some of the people involved with Yao Corp and I wanted to get some more details about them.

Mostly Matilda and Su Geming.

Everyone already made sure to mention how much they hate Kite.

[It may or may not have been a good thing Mako couldn't see her face just then, because when he mentioned Kite, a dark shadow passed over her eyes. Almost eerily so.]

Don't even get me started on Kite. We have a history too.

[It wasn't even close to being a pleasant one.]

I don't really know all that much about the other two aside from roughly who they are and what they do, though. They're not quite as...shall we say visible as Kite's been.

[he didn't need to see her face to know that asking about Kite was probably just going to upset Zatanna. Luckily, he'd heard all he really needed to know about Kite.]

I heard no one's seen Su Geming in awhile. [he pauses after that statement, weighing what he wanted to really pursue with this line of questioning.] And that he wasn't as bad as Kite.

That's not really saying much...but, yeah, you're right about him up and vanishing. Probably got fired or something.

[Which, knowing Yao, might have actually involved fire.]

[he'd make a note of that. It really wasn't saying much, based off what he'd heard.]

Was Kite the one that announced it, or did everyone find out a different way?

[She had to stop and think about that for a moment.]

I don't remember hearing any announcement? If he said anything, then it was during one of his long-winded rants I try not to pay attention to.

All I know is that the Matilda chick's been showing up more and more. Like that time shortly after the maze...

[While they were all dead but their consciousness remained. She shuddered at the memory.]

[he nods, before realizing she can't see him. But he was learning a lot, and he knew he'd need to take a trip up to the library before he really forgot any of the details.]

So he could still be around, in a different position. No one really knows.

[but, she brought up Matilda.]

Matilda's new?

How many other people do you know of that work for Yao Corp?

Couldn't guess if I tried.

It's not just the higher-ups. There are people here, trapped like us, who've inexplicably decided they were in the mood for being traitorous jerks and signed up. For the life of me, I still can't figure out why.

[he pauses, while he mulls over what she said.

He could think of a few reasons why someone would consider it... But he was getting the feeling that his opinions on it wouldn't be appreciated. So he responded with a more lame,]

Yeah.

But those guys come and go more easily, the higher-ups are here no matter what. So figuring out their numbers is probably going to be the easier, more useful task.

[thinking out loud...]

... Anyway, thanks.

[No. They definitely wouldn't. Considering, at one point, she'd actually been on relatively neutral terms with a Yao lackey. Friendship would have been an overstatement, but they could exchange words without her wanting to punch his face. And then he tried to kill her, for no other reason than Yao told him to.]

[Nothing personal, he said.]

[Like hell, it wasn't.]

Sure thing.

Was that all?

Yeah.

[now that he wasn't in cop mode, he was a lot less intense.]

I mean, I might think of more later... But for now, yeah.

[If this was less intense, she wasn't sure she wanted to see him in full on Cop Mode.]

Well, I'm certainly not going anywhere...unfortunately...so you know how to reach me if you need to.

I'm still not even sure why they would give us phones, but I'm glad they did. Since not all of us have superhearing.

... I don't know if I trust the phones.

[more hesitant. Saying that over the phone-- well. Yeah.]

They'd be really easy to tap, even without wires.

[and he's waiting for the day he accidentally calls someone he wasn't meaning to... there was a lot more room for error.]

And while the pictures help, it's really easy to touch the wrong one.

[The irony.]

Oh, trust me, I get it. My b-- [She caught herself before the word had even made it out. It had been so natural to say, up until a short time ago. But now...it just didn't seem right.] ...a friend from home could hack into pretty much anything.

But safe or no, you have to admit, they're pretty good for getting in touch with someone quickly. Better than doing it the old fashioned way.

Yeah.

And, hey, there are less prank calls. I don't how many 'is your refrigerator running' calls I've gotten while on duty.

[a lot. Damn kids.]

Nah. We like to save the pranks for in-person here. That way, we get to cherish the looks on their faces.

[Was she joking? Probably not, considering one particular prank she'd helped play had come to mind.]

Just ask Korra.

[...because of course they'd gotten her in on it.]

Next time I see her, I'll ask.

[... though he wasn't sure if he really--

no he wanted to know.]

[To be fair, in almost any other situation, it would have been hilarious. Nobody got hurt. Not even Conner's shirts. And both Kon and Zee were still convinced it had been for a good cause: getting Conner into more ~~Kon-like~~ colorful shirts.]

You could always call her up now.

Like I said. Convenience.

Thaaaaat's okay.

[he has to work himself up to talking to Korra now. It's weird.]

She's probably busy.

[...um...]

You wouldn't, by any chance, happen to be avoiding her, would you?

[Was that actually any of her business? Did she care ?]

What?

[He sounds surprised, and maybe a bit guilty. But just a bit, because he wasn't really avoiding her, in his head.]

No-- No, it's nothing like that. I...

[pause]

The differences in what we remember and just getting my feet under me, it's been...

[a sigh.]

Look, I just saw her yesterday. I'm not avoiding her.

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