Lin paced around one of the gardens on Air Temple Island, trying to get her anger in check before going to put up with the avatar and her annoying entitlement complex. Which was apparently a common trait among members of the Water Tribe.
Walking over to the agreed upon training area behind the temple where they'd set up some rather large blocks of various types of metals, Lin managed to get her anger under enough control that she didn't feel like knocking the entirety of the Air Temple into the ocean, which was an impressive accomplishment. She shouldn't have even been angry in the first place. Kya hadn't truly said anything offensive… but still. It was none of her business and she didn't need to pry.
As she was about to turn the corner of the building, she stopped when she heard giggling up ahead. Coming around the corner, she found Korra and Asami, who did not seem to realize she was there as they continued whisper and laugh on the bench. Clearing her throat, Lin made herself known and Korra fell off the bench backwards in surprise. Which just caused Asami to laugh even harder.
"Jeez, kid. Get yourself together," Lin said as Korra got up and brushed the dirt of the back of her pants.
"I'll leave you two to it, I suppose," Asami said, getting up to leave, "I'll see you later Korra. Nice to see you again, Chief Beifong."
Asami pecked her girlfriend on the cheek and walked back towards the main part of the Air Temple.
"Right. So. Metalbending, yeah?" Korra said, still a little flustered from being surprised and falling off the bench.
"Yeah, metalbending," Lin said, her sour mood returning quickly. At least she could hurl some giant metal boulders at the avatar. She couldn't quite justify doing the same with Kya.
Kya was back to sitting on the wall that Lin had found her on, watching Meelo try to teach some of the younger airbenders how to make air scooters. Her apple was lying half eaten and forgotten on the ground beside her.
"Hey, Kyyyyaaaa," looking over her shoulder back towards the temple, she saw Bumi walking over. He used airbending to jump up onto the wall she was sitting on before taking a seat next to her.
"Hey, missed you at breakfast this morning," she remarked when he sat down.
"Yeah, not that you were there long," he laughed, "Heard you got in some trouble with both the law and the family."
Kya groaned as she realized that the whole island probably knew about her arrest and subsequent fight with Tenzin. Just what she needed, another reason for the acolytes to think she was a good-for-nothing.
"Meelo's telling everyone you're a convicted murderer," Bumi said, trying to put on a serious face and failing as he continued to laugh, "So tell me, sis, who'd you kill?"
"My chances of ever looking like a vaguely respectable person," Kya said, turning to straddle the wall and lean up against a pillar, "Maybe someone should tell Meelo how the justice system works. They don't normally let convicted murderers go home."
"He claims you escaped. A daring feat, if I might say so myself. Republic City's got some quality police officers," he explained, "I'll help you hide if the law comes looking for you."
"Wow, thanks, Bumi."
"You're welcome. Although you seem to be doing a fairly good job of hiding without my help," he said, gesturing around to the fairly secluded area she had chosen. Besides the airbender kids, who were across the courtyard and fairly wrapped up in themselves, no one was really around, which was a pretty impressive thing considering the number of people who now lived on the island. Stroking his beard, he began to realize that something might be bothering her, "So, are you hiding out here? 'Cause I'll leave if you want to hide by yourself."
"No, you're fine, really," she said, "I just don't particularly like fighting with everyone. It's very draining."
"Everyone? You know, Mom's not really that upset… Tenzin'll be over it by dinner. No one else is really going to say anything about it," Bumi tried to reassure her.
"Lin's angry with me, too," she told him.
"For being arrested? I was under the impression that she thought you deserved it," Bumi said, confused.
"No, no. Something else. I said something stupid. Can't figure out exactly what it was that I said that was the specifically stupid thing that set her off, but it was something," Kya sighed, looking fairly defeated about the situation.
"OH-HO!" he exclaimed, jumping back up onto the wall so that he could lean over his sister, "Someone's upset their little girlfriend!"
He bounced around for a minute before jumping up and floating back down into a sitting position on the wall.
"Are you done with all that?" Kya aksed, annoyed, "She's not my girlfriend, nor is she particularly all that little."
"No, she's not that small, that's true," Bumi said thoughtfully, pulling on his beard.
"Why do I feel like you only heard the second part of that statement?"
"Because it was the true part and I'm only going to bother listening to you if what you say is actually true," he said, as if it should have been obvious. After seeing Kya's dumbstruck expression, he decided to clarify, "Well, I'm only going to listen to things that are based in fact. About this anyways. I'll concede, the Chief's not your girlfriend."
"No, she isn't," Kya insisted.
"But you want her to be," Bumi teased, smiling.
"Go away, Bumi. I've changed my mind about wanting to hide alone."