"I'm no shaman or mystic man but I'll help you, kid."
Everything happened so fast and now… nothing.
"…Korra." Tenzin bellowed.
"What?"
"Are you listening?"
Not really. "Yes, of course."
Tenzin sighed and motioned for her to come over. "Why don't we stop for today?"
The avatar didn't need telling twice. She quickly got up from the floor. Korra bowed in farewell to her master and started walking back to her room.
"Dinner is in a few minutes." Tenzin called.
She got into an air scooter the air bending children where so fond of and rapidly moved away from the training ground. Korra was becoming unhappy and unmotivated to master air bending and quite frankly, bored.
After Amon's defeat everything went back to normal. Well, a new type of normal, she would say. Korra and Mako had left the fire ferrets for good. Bolin was still in pro-bending and recruited new teammates. She was sad to say they weren't faring very well as they did the previous season. Korra was in the Air Temple full time having unlocked her air bending. After the fall of her father, Asami continued and reformed the Future Industries. The Cabbage Corp had returned having cleared their name in court. Both Asami and the owners of the Cabbage Corp had troubles regaining back their individual losses due to the Equalists fiasco. Mako had joined the Police force and became increasingly busy having no time to even hang out anymore. It had been more than two weeks since Korra had seen any of them. Almost half a year after Amon's demise, Korra half heartedly wished there was some sort of trouble brewing in republic city.
Dinner had passed uneventfully aside from a pie going through the window due to Meelo sneezing.
Korra walked along the corridors of the house going towards Tenzin's personal office.
Knocking softly, she called, "Tenzin, it's me."
"Come in, Korra." Tenzin was sat on the floor with several scrolls scattered in front of him.
"Did you need something?" Tenzin asked. Korra remained standing just beside the door. She did not reply immediately. She was unsure whether to ask and get disappointed later on if Tenzin said no.
"I want to go to the South Pole."
"We're going away on a vacation." Tenzin said.
Korra was surprised and repeated, "Vacation?" Something didn't add up.
"Yes. We're going to the Air temples. Bumi is coming with us." Tenzin said. "You know relaxation and no work for a few weeks."
"Right…" Korra smirked. She seriously doubted Tenzin would be up for that.
"Don't grin at me young lady." Tenzin scolded.
"Fine; while you and the family are on vacation, I'll go home for a bit."
Tenzin nodded at her reasoning. "Are you taking anyone with you?"
Korra was confused by this question but quickly remembered. Tenzin was still unaware that she and Mako had ended their relationship two weeks ago. She resolved that Tenzin was fine being ignorant for a little while. "I'm not sure. 'Night, Tenzin."
"Good Night, Korra." He greeted in return. "And actually go to sleep this time, Korra."
Korra closed the door behind her leaving the air nomad alone in his office once more.
That night, she went to bed feeling tired despite having done close to nothing the entire week. She made up her mind and decided to see Asami the next day.
Future Industries had been completely revamped and completely busy. Focused employees were maneuvering around the office, all keen to get the work all done. Most of them would admit that having Miss Sato as their overall leader was different but it was a good type of different. Korra noticed that they had put up designs that hadn't been there when she visited before. The manufacturing department was Korra's least favorite place in the company; she like the testing area better and preferably when they would let her test a new Sato mobile.
The receptionist had redirected her to one of the chairs. Apparently, Asami was busy with some potential investors and Korra was forced to wait outside her office. Korra kept her head down, wanting to keep the attention as far from her as possible. She had her gaze fixed on the door across the hall, waiting for her friend to come out.
After a while which felt like forever for Korra, a small group of men stepped out of the room followed by Asami. The men were wearing fancy sets of clothes; they all seem like identical variations to Korra. Asami said something to the man wearing an eccentric blue suit that she didn't catch. The businessman responded by giving her a handshake.
"It's a pleasure doing business with Future Industries, Miss Sato."
"Thank you, sir."
As soon as Asami's partners had turned at the corridor, Korra raced after Asami who had not seen her.
"Hey." Korra called. "Asami!"
"Korra." Asami greeted.
"Are you busy, now?"
"I haven't got anything for the rest of the morning." Asami said. "Come on. Let's catch up. I haven't seen you in weeks."
A steaming pot of tea was brought over by one of the secretaries and Asami quickly poured them into the cups. Asami had been exhausted for the past few weeks and having Korra over was a well deserved break she thought. There was so much to do despite having achieved so much already. Asami had always been ambitious and without her father, she had full control over Future Industries. Korra personally thought that Asami had done a great deal with the salvage of the company remembering the general opinion post-Amon. Well, publicity was really bad at the time and it hadn't really gotten better since then. It had been the first publicized contribution of the Avatar to the world and Team Avatar was the topic of talk.
"Are you up for a little trip? You know, get out of Republic City." Korra asked excited. "Because, I was thinking; winter solstice is coming up."
"Whoa. Calm down Korra." Asami said. "I'm not sure. I mean I'm kind of busy at Future Industries but I do want to go on a vacation."
"Please! Please! Please!" Korra begged. "I really don't want to go by myself."
Asami laughed at Korra and placed a hand at her shoulder. "Fine, we'll go if you can convince Sergeant Serious to come with us."
"YES!" Korra pulled the other girl into a hug.
The girls chatted more about their plans and what they were going to do once they get to the South Pole. Eventually, Asami had been called back to work and Korra had excused herself promising that they'll talk about it later. Korra exited the building finding her polar bear dog exactly where she left her.
Korra jumped up to Naga's back and ruffled her fur. "Let's go to the pier, girl."