Everyone emerged from the meeting out of their designated exits, Korra asking Tenzin "so, my brilliant idea of bringing Jinora here, what scale cock up have I committed here?"

Jinora, the planck time she emerged into the corridor, got on an air vortex and shot out ahead of them.

"Jinora?" called Korra.

"I'll stay with her," said Kai, getting on his own vortex and giving chase.

Jinora got into her room on the airship and locked the door and stalked about.

There was a knock at the door.

"FUCK OFF!" shouted Jinora.

"Never," replied Kai.

Shit, it would be Kai that's there.

After about a full minute, Jinora opened the door and looked at Kai, and neither spoke for several seconds.

Jinora then stepped away from the door, leaving it open, and Kai entered, closing the door behind him.

Jinora eventually asked "so what do you want?"

"To help, any way I can," said Kai.

"Can you cure post traumatic stress disorder so I never have to worry about pissing myself in public again?" asked Jinora.

"Not really my speciality," said Kai, "but if we keep talking we might find something I'm good for."

Jinora turned to Kai saying "I don't know what else to ask for."

They stood in silence and Kai eventually approached Jinora, slowly pulling her into a hug.

"It is okay to express feelings you know," said Kai, "I can't imagine being strong enough to stick around in that room with those smug fucks, but-"

"I wasn't ready, I rushed into a situation unprepared again," said Jinora, starting to cry as she said that, she went on to say "my judgement is grade A polarbeardogshit."

Kai chuckled and said "you think you're bad, what about the number of times I wasted opportunities to build a life to do what? Go back on the rob. Family takes me in, I grab what I can and fuck off into the night, you guys take me in, planck time we touch down on Ba Sing Se, again, ditch you guys, back on the rob. At least your bad choices are in service of something actually useful if successful."

"How did you get into thieving anyway? Just aside from that you seem so nice," said Jinora.

"Beats sucking off strangers for a living," replied Kai.

That got a laugh out of Jinora who said "Yeah, I can definitely relate to that. But it morphed from just a survival tool into something else didn't it? You no longer needed to do it to survive, and you just kept at it."

"Yeah, it did," said Kai, "it's hard to explain, because this is like emotional stuff rather than logic and planning, I started to take pride in my thieving ability, and it became a bit like … Man this will sound retarded when I say it … It's like competing in an athletic league of some kind, even though nothing was being recorded or compared, and it's a mode I got stuck in."

"But you got out of that mode … right?" Asked Jinora.

"If I weren't I'd have yoinked what I could and legged it to the nearest dodgy pawn shop years ago," said Kai, he then sighed saying "and all it took was getting lifted by the Dai Li for her most excellent majesty Hou Tings air bender army and contemplating how I got in that mess to change my ways, I mean, practically speaking, what was in the way of you suddenly forgetting where I was being held and going 'oh would you look at the time, it's five minutes past skedaddle o'clock, best be off' without me? Or not even that, just 'fuck that prick, he ditched us to go back on the rob, he can get himself out that mess' like?"

"Practically speaking … … … Nothing," conceded Jinora. She then said "Good thing I wasn't thinking practically at the time, eh?"

"Yeah. … " said Kai.

"You know, I … I hope I don't drive you away as I say this, but I had wanted you to be my first fuck," said Jinora.

"I could still be your first consensual," replied Kai, "if ever you want to."

"Yeah, only you'll want to quadruple up on condoms, still waiting for the test results, it's probably pretty rancid in there," replied Jinora, "there could even be animal STIs able to jump the species barrier if you recall my after action report."

"There are actually condoms in the en suite bathrooms," said Kai.

"I'd like to have love sex. Actual, shared pleasure with a loving partner sex," said Jinora, "might make a dent in the degrading shit those sick fucks were doing to me."

"Okay," said Kai as he went to the bathroom and Jinora locked the door to their room.

Kai retrieved the pack of 10 condoms, opened it, seeing it was full of individually wrapped condoms and placed it on the bedside table as they both started undressing.

Kai asked "So, what positions would you like to start off with?"

"If you lie on your back," said Jinora, and Kai did, Jinora crabbed some condoms out the pack and climbed on the bed, straddling Kais legs as she ran her fingers up the front of his thighs, moving up and down further inwards with each pass and that seemed to get kai hard enough for Jinora to start unwrapping and applying condoms to Kais dick.

"You weren't kidding about quadrupling up were you?" asked Kai as the fourth condom was unrolled down on top of the other three, "it'll probably take hours for me to cum."

"Hours of sex with the person I love? Suits me," said Jinora as she shifted forward, Kai started to run his hands up Jinoras sides, eventually settling on Jinoras breasts as Jinora ran her clit up and down Kais overprotected dick, running her hands about his torso as she got her genitals spooled up.

Eventually she felt sufficiently slick that she moved her vestibule to his glans and tilted enough to capture it and then she slowly pushed her crotch down the penis commenting "Ohhhh, that feels so good, sooooooo, so much better."

She then lay forward, Kai and Jinora sharing a hug in that position as they both gently and erratically fucked, mostly just to keep Kai erect in Jinora.

"Before those slavers got you, how were you envisioning your first fuck?" asked Kai.

"I honestly didn't have much of a structured idea in mind," replied Jinora, "I mean … … " she then chuckled and said "my thoughts on where we go is both definite and ambiguous simultaneously, I mean, I didn't know what to discuss with you on where we go without potentially ruining things, if our desires conflicted on any of the things I speculate us doing, I could put more distance between us rather than bringing us closer together."

"Yeah, I get that," said Kai, "I mean, I'd like to marry you, but I've been afraid to propose because I wonder if we're even compatible."

"How do you mean?" asked Jinora.

"Well, you're getting into some really advanced math that to me looks like gibberish, and I'm barely getting into basic trigonometry, you're reading and comparing massive historical texts, you've got that project you initiated on your own of analysing the Earth Nation, I have a reading age of, like, five years ago, I mean, I must seem kinda retarded to you."

Jinora shrugged and said "you were homeless and having to steal to survive, circumstances like that don't exactly facilitate education, I could get complacent and then get overtaken by you."

Kai laughed saying "no chance."

"Only if you write yourself off, it takes work, but you can get there, but it can't just be any old thing, it has to be something you care about if you are to have the motivational drive for it," said Jinora.

"What, like thievery?" asked Kai.

"There's got to be something besides that you're into," said Jinora.

"I'm into you. … And I think I've stolen your heart if I do say so myself."

Jinora laughed at that and commented "with wit like that you'll make a great dad."

"Oof … … Okay, well, we do combat ops, and we keep coming up against enemy forces, and enemy forces have plans and intelligence and we would benefit from stealing those, that's a positive case use for thievery isn't it?"

Jinora noted "yes. … I think the main thing would be build a team, I mean, I applied your updraft technique while we were being held by the Red Lotus, blowing a guards keychain towards the rest of us, then Meelo blew it to Opal, but Opal wasn't exactly subtle in releasing herself and was noticed before she could pass the keys on to the next prisoner, luckily Lin and Suyin clobbered him with the wall and Asami spun in under the other guards arms and zapped him with her stun glove in a stunning move that will be talked about for generations," taking on a sports event commentators voice, prompting a laugh out of Kai.

"Air Nomad spy agency," mused Kai, "wonder what Tenzin would make of that?"

"Mum might shit a brick, we'll have given her that limited earth bending ability with this stuff," said Jinora, "she wasn't happy about me coming out here to say the least, and there I was worrying about whether or not I'd be up for continuing with our current stabilisation operations, now I have to worry I might age her a century in a day."

"You disappeared, we were all worried, I kept dreaming you were rocking up in a Dai Li version of a wingsuit and suffocating your siblings and parents with that Zaheer move," said Kai, "on Pema, she might feel better if allowed to kill all of Pi Fahouns staff and all those slavers that abused you, although that's only because I think that would help calm me down," noted Kai, "I'm sure you've had a sadistic fantasy or two … trillion … "

Jinora chuckled saying "Yeah," said Jinora, "I almost wish they'd kick off again, give us an excuse, but we never know how a war will turn out, I mean, Kuvira when she was going through her world conquest phase, looked like she was going to win. Luckily we turned it around, but this alliance could too if the war restarts and kick our arses. I was tempted to let Korra do whatever she was going to do to coerce those two into drinking my piss, they both made me suck them off at meetings over the course of my captivity, but that had the potential to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But I feel like I cucked myself."

"Yeah, well, probably be recorded as strength of will to overcome ill timed urges or something," said Kai.

"Yeah, by our press," said Jinora, "that is, some of our press, their press will say I was cucked by fear. I pissed myself in public and I definitely wasn't concealing my emotional state."

"Their whole society is fucked up," noted Kai, "it's one thing for criminal gangs to be using slaves, it's simply cheaper and moral qualms by and large don't exist in organised crime, what lies must be believed by a society to try to claim slavery is okay or even virtuous? And that punitive example slavery shit, that dealership we raided, like, who does that?"

"Bureaucrats and other ordinary workers apparently," said Jinora, she went on to say "sounding it out, Punitive Example, theoretically I should have been being abused in a public setting, not in the restricted areas of their administrative building, so, if I wasn't so obviously a missing air nomad with blue arrow tattoos, something that made me both a liability and a treasure simultaneously … … They could have had me being abused at a shopping mall, or … in a school even."

"Oh man, I've never been in a school, but children all being taught in their hundreds to abuse people as some kind of approved … what? Recreational activity? A virtue?" said Kai.

"Lin will probably have more information the next time we speak, although she's going to be on me to file my own charges against Pi, which, on principle, yeah, we can add to the pile and make his sentence what? Three consecutive life terms instead of two? … The idea of discussing this stuff in a court setting with Pi's attorney playing puerile mind games, I imagine details about me having been found as a punitive example slave in Granitopolis have made it into the news, it did after all start a fucking war that has now led to the capitulation of these slave owning states, like, there's no way this isn't being reported on, but that's different from me using my own voice to talk publicly about it, it adds a different layer, and not just Pi's attorney, I've seen the way the media treat Korra at times, that kind of attention is kind of scary."

"You'd prefer a physical fight to a media fight," said Kai.

"Honestly … yes," said Jinora.

"A literal knife edge rather than a metaphorical one?" said Kai.

Jinora had to think about that one a bit more than she had. She eventually said "It's complicated."

"Are you sure we shouldn't check in on them?" asked Tenzin as he and Korra sat around the coffee table in the lounge area of the airship.

"Kai's not going to let Jinora harm herself if that comes up, and if they're fucking, I definitely don't-" started Korra.

"That especially should … " started Tenzin, but then thought things through. He sighed and said "well, it's not like he's going to get her pregnant, that's already been seen to, and he's shown himself to be of excellent character in spite of how he was when we first encountered him, so … " he then sighed and sat back.

"I keep oscillating between thinking I was correct and incorrect to propose bringing her along," said Korra, "on another matter relating to my judgement, had Jinora not stopped me, how close was I to restarting the war we're here to negotiate the permanent settlement to?"

"Half a planck length," said Tenzin.

"Which shouldn't be possible," said Izumi.

"I know, right?" replied Tenzin.

"Well, you don't surrender unless you absolutely have to, hopefully the leeway from that will stretch enough to accommodate" said Korra, "and they probably know fine well we're not making it up, when are we expecting Lin to get a progress update out to us? This could knock their performative skepticism off their faces."

Tonraq who had been reading a local newspaper noticed something and commented "motherfuckers."

Korra leaned over and saw an inside page article discussing an award being issued to one of the pilots that had survived Korra and Asamis trap, but only by receiving a colossal mountainrange shit ton of spirit healing, the article titled 'The Man Who Shot The Avatar,' a photo of Granitopoliss security chief hanging a medal around the pilots neck. "Oh." She then said to Tonraq "We're taking their slaves off of them, so, hope he enjoys his award."

"Korra, could you please stop being to damn cheerful? We thought you were going to die in our arms … AGAIN … like imagine if it was the other way around, or … or if it was Asami in mortal danger," said Tonraq.

Korra nodded saying "Okay, fine, he's a cunt and I hope he catches cancer, you happy?"

"A serviceperson getting an award for doing their job well isn't exactly something that registers in our list of priorities," noted Izumi, "this is a massive shift in their economic model happening practically overnight, and the effect if we don't adequately mitigate could be sufficient for them to withdraw their surrender, even if they are certain they will lose."

"We are setting up delivery schedules and assignment for aid where applicable," said Lin as she entered the airship, a bulging folder in hand, and she said "and this is the information we have gathered off of the slaves we recovered, all of them from abroad, so far fifty thousand two hundred and three Earth Nation, three hundred fire nation, eight northern water tribe, the rep Desna and Eska have, that should properly shit them up next meeting you all have," she said as she handed the folder to Zhu Li, she then continued "there's something I need to discuss with Jinora, where is she?"

There was a knock at the door.

"Fuck off," replied Jinora and Kai simultaneously as they slowly fucked, still conversing.

"Afraid this can't wait," said Korra, "let us know when you're dressed, and, sorry to genital block yous."

They found and donned dressing gowns, and let Korra, Lin and Zhu Li in.

"Okay, what's so important we can't put it off to fuck?" asked Jinora, not really that bothered they clearly knew she and Kai were fucking.

"Pi Fahoun has sought to bargain down his sentence with information, he seems to have helped facilitate the corruption of key Earth Nation personal, and he's offered to dob all the ones he know of in," said Lin, "if we can get them, that will stop anyone else picking up where the slavers left off, and help deter future corruption."

"Good," said Jinora.

"He's asking we suspend the sentence, our counteroffer is house arrest, and that's where you come in," said Lin.

"How?" asked Jinora.

"Our case for house arrest is Pi is an ongoing threat, his behaviour towards you-" started Lin.

"Hasn't been proven to the criminal trial standard so of course Pi's attorney is fighting like hell to get the suspension of his custodial. Fuck a unagi." interrupted Jinora.

"So, we'll need-" started Lin.

"Yeah, charge him, I'm in."

"You sure you want to?" asked Kai.

"'Want' to has nothing to do with it," said Jinora, "even if he's too chickenshit to come after me, he is a danger to anyone that takes his fancy, and he may well rack up multiple victims before the police can arrest and charge him, so I have to."

Lin sighed and said "look, this isn't even close to an edge case, Pis attorney has the thin end of fuck all to work with, we have a shit ton of evidence to indicate his guilt, the kinds of cases you're thinking of are acquaintance rapists who coerce without leaving physical evidence, you were a prisoner of these people, registered as a punitive example slave, this can't be spun as a minor thing that blew up out of nothing, you have a really strong level of credibility."

"Understood," said Jinora, "what's the timeline likely to be?"

"We can start in three days," said Lin, "we'll need you back in Republic city for then," Lin asked Zhu Li "any potential issues?"

"No," said Zhu Li.

"Okay then, I'll be in touch."

Jinora asked "How we doing liberating slaves?"

"We're making progress, but we're finding we've lost so far three percent to suicide before we get there, so, we're looking to accelerate any way we can, many of these people weren't aware of the way the war had gone, some had seen some of the explosions but didn't know what was going on with that, so those we haven't reached yet won't know rescue is imminent," replied Lin, she then said "we rescued a Punitive Example Slave from a school that was asking about you, didn't know your name, but-"

"She was one of those in the show room when I was first there, right, I noticed them looking at me but not saying anything, not exactly a secure forum, I was concerned I might have offered false hope," said Jinora.

"Not as false as you thought, she wanted to know you were okay, I replied as good as could be expected and left it at that," said Lin.

"Had I broken out sooner, I could have prevented those suicides," noted Jinora.

"But you can't identify any escape opportunities you might have passed up, likely because they didn't fucking exist," said Lin, "you'll drive yourself crazy thinking that way."

"More the other way around," said Jinora, she then asked "where are you finding punitive example slaves being deployed anyway?"

"So far, five in high schools being used as targets for thrown and bow launched projectiles among other things, three in shopping malls in draft animal rigs pulling passenger carts being controlled by electric stun devices, I honestly think most this alliances citizens should be nicked for conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, sexual assault, and so much more, I mean, these states are democratic, so there's a level of popular approval in play for this to just … … carry on."

Jinora nodded saying "sounds about right."

"Right. I think that covers everything I came back to talk to you about," said Lin.

"Okay then," replied Jinora.

As Korra, Lin and Zhu Li returned to the lounge area, Tenzin asked them "have any of you seen Ikki or Meelo since we got back here?"

"No," replied Korra.

"Any reason they might wander off on their own?" asked Lin.

Korra thought a moment and said "Oh fucking hell, they're after that slave town chief."

"Oh spirits, that could really fuck things up for us," said Tenzin.

"I'll see if I can find them," said Korra, getting to the entrance before getting on an air vortex and shooting off.

Ikki walked the streets maintaining a distance from Kying that made it less likely that her or her security detail would notice her, Ikki was also waring a pauncho over her wingsuit and a flowerpot hat over her comms headset, so she was less obviously an air nomad allowing her to evade notice if there was a moderately dense crowd between her and her objective.

"Meelo in position, I see our target."

"Got that, moving on attack position, you have control."

Ikki moved into the street having to stand on the centreline near the manhole cover. That will look damn odd, but as long as traffic isn't obstructed, there won't be anything more than odd stares.

Unfortunately this was going to enhance her visibility.

"Meelo moving on attack position, standby, standby," she could see Meelo up ahead moving to his manhole cover as their target approached a location on the sidewalk close enough to the manhole cover between them, and then Meelo said "Go," and both Meelo and Ikki airbent a blast that would lift their manhole covers off the sewer running along the street, and then both bent air along the sewer from their ends, blasting a geyser of shit, piss, used toilet paper and condoms into the air next to their target.

Meelo and Ikki were close enough to their target to then churn the material and aerosolise it and dump it onto their target.

They then took off, overflying rooftops.

That had gone perfectly, they had managed to avenge Jinora, even though this hadn't been requested by Jinora or Tenzin, they'll probably be at least okay with this.

"You … You twats!" commented Tenzin as Ikki and Meelo stood before him in the lounge area of the airship now looking a bit awkward.

"It's impressive mind," added Korra, amused at the literal shitstorm the pair of them created.

"KORRA!" replied Tenzin.

"I mean, bad, unhelpful, an unnecessary provocation, and an act of war if that alliance really wanted to go for it for sure, but-"

"STOP, before the 'but' you stop right there, in fact retract the but," interrupted Tenzin.

"Right, right, retracting my but," said Korra nodding.

"This isn't just assault with a noxious substance, that aerosolised shit if inhaled can produce a rapidly lethal infection, you two twats could be up for felony murder or at least grievous bodily harm," said Tenzin.

"But we didn't mean to kill her, we just wanted to gross her out," said Meelo.

"It's a bit worse than that, there's weapons ban treaties covering biological weapons which that aerosol of shit can be characterised as," noted Izumi, "you two are war criminals."

"Um, okay, so … " started Ikki, unable to proceed further as the magnitude of their situation weighs on her.

Meelo is similarly inarticulate.

"Can we do anything for them? I don't think they'd have done it if I hadn't been visibly terrified by that rock encasement in the meeting, I should have been stronger than that," said Jinora.

Meelo looked like he was about to jump on the opportunity to reinforce the blame Jinora was attributing to herself, but then read the room and abandoned the impulse.

Eventually Lin returned with the Granitopolis security chief, who drew a momentary scowl from Jinora but nothing more as Lin said "So, as expected Kying is filing charges, and you two twats are almost certainly serving a custodial, not being eligible for parole for two years, if you two plead no contest when we get you back to Republic City. If you choose to contest the charges, there will be pressure for extradition, although by the time that happens we may have gotten these people to have ditched the punitive example slavery laws and will have started running a prison system similar to our own but which then may be modified to suit their own idea of what is needed. … I emphasise may have ditched the Punitive Example Slavery system. May."

Ikki and Meelo had nothing to say to that. The emphasis Lin was putting on the word 'May' seemed to be designed to shit them up.

And having both read Jinoras report and actually seen the slave dealership, it was working.

"Do you two intend to contest the charges?" asked Lin.

"No," replied Ikki and Meelo.

"Good choice. Also, stay on the ship, you step off it, you're under their rules and you will be arrested and processed by them," said Lin.

This prompted a predatory look to the security chief of Granitopolis from Jinora. He noticed her look and asked "What?"

"Nothing, just thinking about jurisdictions and the like," replied Jinora.

"Like you illegally removing your slave tattoos and waltzing back over here?" asked the security chief.

"I guess that's the real crime here, not the shit you all did that I'm still of two minds about whether or not to let slide," replied Jinora, "you might not have done it without the permissive environment under your laws and under Pi's employment, I mean, I can only go on the evidence observable to me, but you still did it. If there weren't competing interests, I'd have gutted you like a fish on my way out of the cell when I had the chance."

He opted not to reply in present company. She had been there as a stress toy, he had on multiple occasions punched her or ordered her to suck him off, her submission compelled by the certainty of orders of magnitude worse treatment and lack of credible escape options, and by now everyone in the room, most of them combat benders of various elements and one of all elements, knew what she had experienced. Definitely not sensible to continue this particular conversation.

"You two will also be staying in the brig until we get home," said Tenzin.

"What?" chorused Ikki and Meelo.

"I'm sure they're not a … absconding risk," said Jinora, seeking to avoid an obvious pun that would apply to the wingsuit clad airbenders.

"I don't care," said Tenzin, "this was so obviously not the thing to do, they're staying in the brig until we get home and then straight into arreignment. I know it's on me and Pema to have raised them better, but … " he then turned back to Meelo and Ikki and said "Just de-rig and get in there," and asked Lin "provided there isn't anything else to discuss with them?"

"Nope, we will be watching your court system, with the changes you are asking us to make to our whole system of law, you'd better be true to your own values," said the Granitopolis security chief as he left.

As Meelo and Ikki started removing their comms gear from their wingsuits, the security chief left earshot and Tenzin said "there is an additional reason, it's harder for you two to be abducted from the brig than it is from your own rooms, but I'm hopping mad at the pair of you still stands as enough even in the absence of that."

Eventually the two kids got up and went to the brig and Tenzin said "Pema is so going to murder the fuck out of me when we get back."