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Characters: Tarrlok and OPEN
Date: Early November
Location: Around Keeliai
Situation: Tarrlok has temporarily lost all memories of his father. It makes a pretty big difference.
Warnings/Rating: None yet.

[Tarrlok is up to his usual routine - looking at clothes, getting some groceries, generally keeping an eye on how things are going - but ever since he came back from his disappearance, something has been different about him.

While he usually looks somewhat disheveled and deep in thought (a consequence of knowing your own death is soon and all your plans utterly failed), as it is now it looks like a huge weight has been lifted off his shoulders. He looks closer to how he was when he first arrived - proud, confident - but there's something a little off about him there, too. He also seems to be more willing and glad to engage in social interaction than he has been the last few months.]

Comments

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Weird like - hostile. My brother was very upset with me. I don't suppose he's talked to you, has he? Not that I'm expecting you to tell his secrets, but...

[Yes, this is a universe in which Noatak might actually bother telling Lin about his troubles. Because he's not a terrorist or anything, so he's got no problem with the police force.]/small>

[lineality]

[And again, no signs of lying, of sarcasm, despite the utter absurdity of the question--

She shakes her head, a short, abrupt motion.]

Tarrlok. What, precisely, do you think the nature of my relationship with your brother is?

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Well, nothing much, but if he had anything to say that he couldn't tell me I figured he'd go to someone from our world about it first...

[lineality]

Oh, would he now.

[Of all the people she knows, Tarrlok is definitely the one most likely to play the long game. But this? This is ridiculous. He's not the type to joke about Amon, and--

And then a thought flickers in the back of her mind. The disappearances. Mako. Korra--

Lin's frown deepens for a moment.]

Listen. What's the last thing you remember before you arrived on the turtle?

[disfavored]

I was holding a gala for Avatar Korra. Maybe she'll scare the Triads off for a while...

[The Triads, not the Equalists.]

[lineality]

[She catches it, but she has to make sure.]

You really think the Triads are the biggest threat to Republic City right now? That they're the ones Korra ought to be focusing on?

[disfavored]

Well, they are the largest gang...Is there something going on that I'm unaware of? I suppose the Chief of Police would know better than I would.

[lineality]

Yeah, she would.

[Spirits, no wonder Amon was--upset, did he say? It's hard to picture the man feeling something as mundane as upset.]

Like the Equalists, for one. You don't remember them? Out to eliminate bending, led by the brother you just talked to? Doesn't ring a bell?

[disfavored]

...Why would my brother be out to eliminate bending? He's a bender.

[lineality]

[Another frown--though for once, it isn't directed at Tarrlok. At least, not specifically.]

You really don't remember. [Korra had given her the simplified version of events, but--] You don't remember why a son of Yakone might have second thoughts about bending, if he were pushed hard enough.