[ Once this is over, there won't be any more Syndicate. ]
[ Hei's skin is prickling and his chest feels tight -- with the dumb, inexplicable anger Amber always inspired in him, but also with a kind of stomach-swooping uncertainty as when he was young -- untrained and clumsy -- and would leap off a high building and miscalculate the drop. A hot burst of adrenaline that blurs everything into red-noise. ]
...What?
[ He sucks in a soft, jagged breath, trying to absorb her words, to let go the shock. He can't. One sentence keeps rattling in his brain, over and over: The Contractor who destroyed the Gate. Pai. Has Amber shared details about her? Does Korra know where his sister is? Hei's pale, frozen face -- just a flash, then gone -- is nonetheless evident of how her words have resounded with a chilling echo, a dopplering resonance colliding with that iceberg of unanswered questions inside him. ]
[ Rage sharpens his voice into a raw undertone. ]
What the hell has she told you about Pai?
[ Just that codename, weighed by a bedrock of jarring intimacy, should tell Korra all about his and Pai's relationship. ]
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Date: 2015-04-27 04:11 am (UTC)[ Hei's skin is prickling and his chest feels tight -- with the dumb, inexplicable anger Amber always inspired in him, but also with a kind of stomach-swooping uncertainty as when he was young -- untrained and clumsy -- and would leap off a high building and miscalculate the drop. A hot burst of adrenaline that blurs everything into red-noise. ]
...What?
[ He sucks in a soft, jagged breath, trying to absorb her words, to let go the shock. He can't. One sentence keeps rattling in his brain, over and over: The Contractor who destroyed the Gate. Pai. Has Amber shared details about her? Does Korra know where his sister is? Hei's pale, frozen face -- just a flash, then gone -- is nonetheless evident of how her words have resounded with a chilling echo, a dopplering resonance colliding with that iceberg of unanswered questions inside him. ]
[ Rage sharpens his voice into a raw undertone. ]
What the hell has she told you about Pai?
[ Just that codename, weighed by a bedrock of jarring intimacy, should tell Korra all about his and Pai's relationship. ]