After spending a couple hours attempting to teach Korra some level of actual technique when all the girl wanted to do was learn how to use the police cables, Lin decided it was time to call it a day. Korra seemed grateful; she had wanted to stop when she found out that Lin was actually never going to let her use the police cables

Korra had very quickly cut and run as soon as Lin had said that they were done, not even offering to help clean up some of the mess she had left behind. There was a gaping hole in the ground from where she had gotten frustrated.

"Well, the acolytes might actually prefer it this way," Lin said to herself, not really feeling like fixing it.

"I agree, you should leave it like this. Then maybe Tenzin will be angry with you and Korra instead of me," Kya said, leaning up against the Air Temple. She'd decided it was best to pretend like she hadn't upset Lin earlier; there was really no need to bring it up again.

"He'll get over it," Lin said, trying to flatten the ground back out, "There. That's pretty much how it looked before."

"Do you remember when Suyin was first learning how to metalbend and she ripped a hole in your living room wall?" Kya asked, smiling at the memory.

"Yeah, she did a crappy job fixing it and then assumed Mom wouldn't notice," Lin smirked, "I wasn't there when Mom got home, but I know Su didn't want to be in the house with her for about a week after."

"She spent a couple of those nights at the Air Temple," Kya told her, "And Mom absolutely went off on Toph for being too hard on her."

"I don't think she was particularly hard on her, Su just didn't spend a lot of time at home, anyway. That just sort of drove her off the edge," Lin sighed, her sister had been going through a lot back then.

"Anyway, how'd the lesson go?" Kya asked. The two of them started walking back around the front of the island. Spring had just started and everything was in bloom. Kya reached off the path and plucked a white flower off a tree

"About as well as it could have gone. She doesn't particularly care about learning the intricacies of metalbending," Lin replied, watching as Kya ripped the petals off the flower and threw them back into the shrubbery.

"Did you have to steel yourself to practice with her? Did it rock? Did you have a smashingly good time?" Kya asked, throwing the stem of the flower at Lin's face.

"Most of those weren't even metal puns," Lin grumbled, brushing at her face where she's been hit.

"Hey, let's see you try to make a decent metal related joke," Kya laughed, "I tried my best."

Kya walked with Lin the rest of the way to the dock, making sure to remind Lin about the ceremony tonight. After making her promise, once more, to be there, and Lin grumbling something about needing to go for security reasons, anyway, Lin got on the ferry to go home.

There were still several hours before there was any need to start getting ready for tonight, so Kya resigned herself to sitting on the docks again for a while, hopefully away from any prying brothers or annoying acolytes. Looking over at the city was interesting enough, anyway.

"Hey," someone from behind her said. She turned around, pleased to see that it was only Asami. She smiled at her in greeting as Asami bent down to sit next to her on the dock.

"Did the ferry just leave?"

"Yeah, you just missed it."

Asami groaned and fell backwards so that she was lying down with the crook of her arm hiding her face.

"I've got so much to do today. I told Korra I was going to miss it."

"Big plans for today?" Kya asked, happy to hear about someone else's problems.

"I mean, just the usual stuff. Company to run and all that. It's just that tonight's award ceremony is cutting the workday short. And I've got to actually get dressed for that," Asami said, trying to plan out a revised schedule for the day in her head, "You're going to that, right?"

"Wouldn't miss it," Kya said, copying Asami's position on the ground and watching the clouds.

The ferry returned, leaving Kya alone again. She decided she should get up and go back to the dining hall. It was probably getting close to lunchtime, she figured, and someone might come looking for her if she didn't show up to eat with them.