IC INBOX.

[taciturns]

"Whatever."

voice | video | text | action
梅 ( mai. )
air district.

Comments

voice; 11/19

[assiduous]

[ after his convo with azula: HE'S NOT REALLY SURE HE CAN DO THIS??? but she's the fire lady that counts right. ]

Hey, Mai.

voice; a little while later,

[taciturns]

[ ugh how the shit does this work— ]

Mako, right?

voice;

[assiduous]

Yeah. I need to talk to you about your job.

voice;

[taciturns]

[ ... sigh ]

Ugh, fired already? What did Azula do?

[ HA. HA. HA. ]

voice;

[assiduous]

[ OKAY THAT REACTION IS REASSURING. mako's laugh is humorless. ]

No, you're not fired. But Azula's on the blacklist. She's not allowed in the door. [ a slight, hesitant pause ] You think you can enforce that?

voice; 1/2

[taciturns]

[ on the blacklist? mai's eyebrow lifts and she gives her device a long.

curious.

look. ]

voice;

[taciturns]

I already assumed she was.

[ because c'mon, even if mai hasn't betrayed azula yet, she knows how dangerous azula is. it just makes sense to her that other benders would want her as far away from them as possible. ]

voice; 1/2.

[assiduous]

[ ... what, seriously? ]

voice;

[assiduous]

No, that was just from entering fights, before... this came up. [ he wasn't gonna turn away paying customers. ] But you can handle it?

voice;

[taciturns]

[ she doesn't know what happened (what is stalking conversations? she's not that adept yet), but now she's curious. ]

Gee, I don't know. Can I? I've only spent my whole life with her.

voice;

[assiduous]

[ a long pause. ]

I'm taking that as a yes.

voice;

[taciturns]

Well, then I guess you have your answer.

[ even though she didn't technically give him one. ]

Is there a procedure I need to follow?

voice;

[assiduous]

If she tries to get in, tell her she's currently not allowed on the premises. She gets two warnings, then you send for me and pin her to a wall with your... [ uh ] things.

voice;

[taciturns]

"Things"?

[ wow, she almost sounds insulted. ]

Would you prefer knives, darts, or stilettos?

voice;

[assiduous]

Whichever works best for you.

[ aren't "stilettos" those pointy shoes some of the hookers in eclipse wear ]

voice;

[taciturns]

[ you don't think those can be used as weapons, mako? ]

Whatever. But when Azula asks, I'm going to have to tell her I'm doing my job.

[ not that she won't enjoy it at the time, but seriously now. ]

voice;

[assiduous]

She should know just fine why she's on the list.

voice;

[taciturns]

That makes things easy for me.

voice;

[assiduous]

Good. I don't want extra trouble from this.

voice;

[taciturns]

[ there's quiet for a long, long moment.

and then mai snorts. softly, but it's there. ]

Have you ever met Azula?

voice;

[assiduous]

[ GIRL


mako's pause speaks measures. ]

You know what I mean.

voice;

[taciturns]

[ she thinks she likes mako.

at least a little.

not as much as ty lee though.

there's another measured silence on mai's end, remembering azula's hands around her throat not moments before (absently, she finds herself rubbing at her neck). ]

I can't make any promises.