Hey, so it's been like a week or whatever. Sorry about that. I don't own Legend of Korra, yeah. So that's all. Later.

Chapter 6

The good news about everything was that the news of the peculiar stuff going down in Republic City was finally being reported and investigated. The bad news about that was that there was literally no evidence of anyone even attacking anyone. Like, people had obviously been attacked, but there wasn't any DNA samples that were being found. Forensic detectives couldn't figure out what was going on. Couldn't figure out any type of motivation other than maybe insanity.

Korra was spending more time than what should have been allowed in the public library. She was actually going from school to the library, where she'd write maybe-correct answers down for her homework and then get right back to researching. Though now it wasn't as much on werewolves as it was on the tendencies of psychopathic murderers. She was actually having a hard time leaving and couldn't remember exiting the library on her own free will. She was pretty sure that every night it was either Asami or Jinora (sometimes both) pulling her out of the library.

Korra had tried visiting Opal, but she'd been denied entrance by hospital staff. Evidently, she was just as stable as Bolin.

In other words, she wasn't stable at all. If left unsedated, she would scream—just like how Bolin would. Scream and scream and scream for all eternity. So Korra couldn't stop now. Who even cared if it was a werewolf? Not Korra. Who cared if Asami was a werewolf? Well, Korra still did care about that. But she cared more about whether or not there was a killer on the loose.

"Korra, it's eight nine o'clock. You need to go home." Presently, Korra was trying to stay in the library for as long as possible by sitting on top of bookshelf so that Asami couldn't reach her. It was working pretty well. She'd been there for hours longer than usual because of her new idea. "Korra, it's dark outside. I don't want to get caught up in something sinister."

"We're all caught up in something sinister," Korra murmured with her nose in the book she was reading.

"Have you ever watched horror movies? Libraries are dangerous in those."

"Books are one of the best resources to prepare us in life…or keep us safe from psychopaths." Korra looked down at Asami. The first thing she thought that it was cool to finally look at someone from above and that it was almost like she was taller than Asami for once. The next thing was that Asami looked genuinely nervous by the prospect of getting caught up in the whole mess that encompassed the new mystery of Republic City. "But I get your point. Let's go."

"Thank you." Asami seemed relieved to leave the library. She had been right though. It was dark out, and it wouldn't be good if they were out for long.

Korra glanced up at the moon and almost let out a shriek. It was the full moon. There was a full moon, and she was out with Asami at night. She was going to die right there. She looked back at Asami and realized that Asami was still human. Still human. She wasn't a werewolf then. Was all that research for naught then? How had Korra even come up with the idea of Asami being a werewolf anyways?

Times had been easier a month ago. Before Bolin and Opal were attacked.

A month ago Korra had found a corpse. A month ago, one of her best friends was attacked and hasn't been the same since. A month ago, Korra caused a whole lot of problems by deciding on faulty evidence that Asami was a werewolf.

"Hey Asami, your house is closer than mine. Could I stay the night there?" Knowing that she was not a werewolf was what told Korra that it'd be totally safe. Besides, Asami lived alone now, so it'd be fine.

Maybe a bit safer if Korra was there too.

"I…well, you see…um, y—yeah. You can stay the night." If possible, Asami started walking even faster than she already had been. How strange that she hadn't driven. "Let's hurry though. I'd hate for us to get killed."

They practically ran to Asami's mansion. It was still ridiculously large—just like always. The butler welcomed them and took Korra's jacket for her. It almost seemed crazy how quickly dinner was ready. Korra would probably never get used to how everything happened so quickly in the Sato Estate. Maybe she would never get used how Asami was running a company, attending school, and making sure that Korra wasn't getting herself killed while researching about murderers and werewolves.

Asami was hard to understand. She did so much with so little time. She cared so much for everyone despite living alone with her mother dead and father in prison. How was it even possible to be as kind as Asami Sato?

Korra wasn't sure.

"Well, it's late." Asami got to her feet suddenly. "I think I'll head to bed. Do you want me to show you to the guest room? Well, one of them."

"Oh…yeah. That'd be cool." Korra followed Asami to a room and exchanged goodnights. Nothing could compare to how nervous and scared Asami seemed right then. Sure, it was understandable, but it was still kind of frightening to seem Asami in the state that she was in. Was this how she acted every night when going to sleep?

Was it a normal thing for her? Korra didn't know. She honestly didn't know what went on in Asami's head. It didn't matter though.

What mattered was that Asami was acting really suspicious—normal or not. So Korra left the room that had been provided just to look around. It wasn't just Asami's behavior that was suspicious. It seemed that her butler had left. And to Korra, that just seemed awfully fast.

"Hey Asami," Korra whispered to the empty hall. "Asami?"

Nothing. No one. No Asami. No butler or anyone. That clearly meant that Korra was supposed to keep looking around. She didn't find anyone. She tried knocking on Asami's door to see what was actually happening. No one answered though. She tried the handle. It was locked.

There wasn't anything she could really do other than sit outside the door and hope that everything was alright. Well, she could break the door down, but it'd be kind of embarrassing if everyone was okay. Because then she would have ruined Asami's door for no reason.

She hadn't planned on falling asleep so quickly, but she had. And then she woke up a few hours later and tried opening the door again. Still locked. But then again, people didn't usually get up in the middle of the night and unlock their bedroom doors.

So Korra got up again and wandered the halls aimlessly, hoping that she'd find something that would catch her eye.

And for once, she was lucky enough for that to happen.