4.

[lawbender]

[voice]

[ There is a kind of careful neutrality in Lin's voice right now. ]

Roommates: I am escorting Korra down to the station to answer a few questions.

And then I am going to yoga. [ She needs to relax. ]

[filtered to police force]

Got another stabber coming in. Woman at the hospital reported it. I thought we should at least follow up, make sure it was curse-related.

I can't work this one for personal reasons, anyone want to take it?

[ ooc: Korra stabbed Chekov, Uhura reported it, and Lin's bringing her in. Yep. ]

Comments

[filtered to police force]

[othersdie]

I can deal with it.

[filtered to police force]

[lawbender]

Thank you.

For what it's worth, I don't think she'd do something like that cold-blooded. But you should decide that.

[filtered to police force]

[othersdie]

Everyone I've met with thus far has been cleared, if it's any consolation.

[filtered to police force]

[lawbender]

Good to know.

Is there something about the 'ides' that makes people reach for a knife? This is the impression I've gotten.

[filtered to police force]

[othersdie]

Not just knives.

The Ides of March is a reference to an event in the history of the world I'm from. In our classical period, an influential government official was betrayed by his allies and murdered. This marked the fall of a powerful empire and the beginning of an era of civil war.

They didn't use a sequential numbering system when tracking the days of the month. Instead, they dated events in relation to one of three points in the month. The assassination occurred, supposedly, on the second of these three points in March--the Ides.

[And that is probably the most Justin has said all at once for months. He might have a hang-up about famous betrayals.]

[filtered to police force]

[punchedhitler]

Thanks, Justin.

[filtered to police force]

[othersdie]

Of course.

[Justin doesn't mind doing the office work while Rogers patrols. Play to your strengths and all.]

[filtered to police force]

[lawbender]

Thanks for understanding.

[filtered to police force]

[punchedhitler]

You're welcome. Someone close to you? From home?

action;

[anatural]

[Korra is curled up in the waiting room, waiting to be questioned, and she is....well, she's something. Many things.

Resentful that she's being brought in because of something she did during a curse.

Afraid still that it wasn't just the curse.

Guilty. Grieving. Anxious. Frustrated. Angry. Too many feelings to comprehend, much less handle.]

action;

[othersdie]

[Justin enters the waiting room to fetch Korra. They've met in passing (he suspects he can say that of almost everyone in the City), but he doesn't remember much about her. The information in the report that Nyota Uhura filed, however, doesn't fit the girl. She looks scared.

Hopefully this won't get too emotional.]

Korra? I'm Justin Pendleton. Come with me, please.

[To the "interrogation room," which is... just a room. No one-way mirrors, a camera in one corner, and nondescript table and chairs.]

action;

[anatural]

[Korra looks up when the guy -- he can't be much older than she is -- calls her up. She surpreses a brief urge to resist and stands.]

Okay.

action;

[othersdie]

[He's a little older than he looks, but no, the age difference isn't significant. Justin has only advanced so far in his City career because he's been there longer than anyone else on the force. (All of that aside, Korra wouldn't have to try very hard to take him in a fight.)

He ushers her to the room and gestures for her to take a chair. He takes the opposite.]

I assume you know you're here because you've been accused of the murder of Pavel Chekov.

voice, and fast;

[riceballfruit]

Station?!

Is she all right?? Is everything okay? I'm glad you found her.

voice; poor Tohru

[lawbender]

She's fine. We just need her to answer a few questions.

voice;

[riceballfruit]

[A little relief.] She's okay.

So nothing terrible happened?

voice;

[lawbender]

Someone has been hurt, but Korra doesn't have any severe injuries. I expect she'll be home in a few hours.

[Video]

[brothertragedy]

Did something happen?

[Video]

[lawbender]

There was a stabbing.

[Video]

[brothertragedy]

How terrible!

Do you have any idea who is responsible?

[Video]

[lawbender]

That is what is under investigation. I think it was a curse-related incident.

action;

[anatural]

[Korra had left Li's apartment mid-Saturday morning, intending to head straight home and confess everything to Lin.

She doesn't actually make it to the beach house until the wee hours of Monday morning. That nice new outfit Li got her is dirty and ripped. She quiets the worried Naga, not wanting to wake up Jinora and Tohru, and then very, very carefully, knocks on Lin's bedroom door.]

action;

[lawbender]

[ Lin wakes very quickly - that's a skill you learned while policing, that and the ability to sleep anywhere for brief periods of time. ]

[ She throws on a robe and answers the door. No one would be knocking unless it was important. ]

action;

[anatural]

[Korra tries to smile. It doesn't actually reach her face.]

Chief...

[Help.]

action;

[lawbender]

[ She can tell that Korra hasn't been staying away purposefully, like she'd thought at first. It makes her feel even less happy about the issue. ]

Come in here so you don't wake anyone, and tell me everything.