p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Mako walked into Lin's home with the air master himself. They both took a sharp inhale. It was unlike its normal pristine condition./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The furniture was toppled, the walls were covered in alcohol splatter, and there was broken glass and remnants of a bottle lay on the floor. There were empty sake cans littered with other trash. The smell of booze was overpowering. It was clear that someone had been partying hard, and they had left a trail of destruction in their wake./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The couch was stained with what Mako assumed was vomit, and there were cigarette butts on the carpet. The whole place looked like it had been through a war zone. Tenzin worried, knowing Lin had drinking problems, but she had stopped drinking and smoking for a few months now./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"That was when they caught a glimpse of the sofa table. There were drugs scattered all over it./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin and Mako looked over at each other. There had to be an explanation./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Maybe someone staged it to look like a suicide," Tenzin said, not believing what was in front of his eyes./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Or, she ended up having a binge, a meltdown," Mako said. His eyes fell on the bottles. They were the Chief's favorites; he knew Lin had hang-ups. The residue of illicit substances was shocking./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""She will hate this, but after we check it out, I think we will need a few crime scene guys to sweep the place," Tenzin said, grimacing. He didn't want to believe this was happening./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""And ask if the neighbors heard anything," Tenzin said, looking over to the lamp that was shattered./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"They heard a crunch, and a door closed./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Is it true-Lin?" It was Saikan. The two men looked over at the third as he took in the scene. Saikan's face contorted with disgust at the scent./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Lin is in the hospital. We're investigating the situation, sir," Mako said, looking into the older man's eyes. They were saddened by the situation./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" Tenzin's eyes fell on a spare robe he had left the last time he was with Lin. He wondered if he should hide it. The implications might bite him. The air master decided not to bother. Bigger things were at stake, and he was guilty of infidelity but nothing more./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""So we're retracing her steps. I brought something that might be noteworthy, but I'm not sure. It was curious that she gave this to me days ago," Saikan said as they stood in her bedroom looking for any clues or notes. Everything else seemed to be in order./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin felt relieved that her room was clean, but he walked over to her bed, where he saw some photos and a key. Tenzin immediately recognized the key and the threatening note that seemed to be blackmail from a triad./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"If you don't release Fang, your filthy little habit will be on the front page of the paper./span/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Saikan and Tenzin frowned. Lin going to triads for substances sounded like a work of photos, on the other hand, seemed to be of Lin posing in a studio and a couple of photos with Tenzin in their early teens./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Did the Chief model in her youth?" Mako asked, holding one of the photos up. He was taken aback by the sweet smile of a young Lin Beifong. Saikan noted she probably never had an ugly phase./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin stared at the photos of them, and a tear fell. They had gotten the photo taken by a friend of his uncle. Before he left her to focus on getting his tattoos, he obsessed about mastering air bending at the same age as his father and broke up with her, hoping it would help./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I broke her heart after this photo. I-" Tenzin's voice cracked. He looked down at the key. "I dread seeing what she kept in the attic. This was my fault." Mako and Saikan decided not to comment./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Have you opened the box?" Mako asked a stumped Saikan. The captain never was the best detective./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I haven't opened it, but we should," Saikan said./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"-/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Katara looked over at Kya and Asami, "I did the tox screening, but we will wait on that. Have you notified Su?"/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Yes, Opal as well. I believe she went to retrieve her mother in Zaofu," Asami said as Korra and Bolin came back to the large room with tea./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Good. I have to get back to Lin. If she survives the next few hours, then I think we can count on her surviving her get an explanation." Katara said. She looked over at the kids, hoping this was not tied to a personal failure of hers. The elderly woman wished she could speak to Aang. She knew Lin, if she really did this to herself, the earthbender fully expected to die./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I'll help you mother." Kya said, not liking how evasive her mother was to her many questions./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"-/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"They spread the contents of the box over her bed carefully. The clippings were from the newspaper and looked to be about 30 years old. Tabloids were not unlike their current state of relentless, harsh, and sometimes cruel as they read the headlines and articles. They noted the photos were cut out./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The men were drawn to the chronicles of underage wealthy heiresses and party goers of Republic City's upper echelons. The allegations of illicit drug use, drinking and sketchy relationships. heavily blaming the younger generations' moral decay, then they reached the bottom of the box, a current case file request for a young Mumeishi with interest in publishing an exposé./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Mako wondered if whatever this case was about set the chief over the edge somehow, but also wondered if it was a combination of things. He looked over to Saikan./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""We should see if we can find the case file in the catalog, but first let's get someone in here to investigate and see what they found when they ran her tox screen." Then he looked over at Tenzin. "And see what Lin wanted us to find in the attic."/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"—/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The men decided to have Mako investigate the attic and Saikan to pull the case file, leaving Tenzin to wait for them while officers investigated her home with closer detail./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Saikan returned first. He clutched the case file in his white-knuckled hands, his lips pursed in a thin line. They sat in silence as they waited, Saikan wondering what Mako would find. He was starting to believe that the case had driven Lin off the deep end. It was explicit and deeply disturbing to think about what had happened to the young Mumeishi, knowing how much she cared about children./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The child had been failed by all the adults involved, and the perpetrators had gotten off with a slap on the wrist from Toph Beifong. Saikan realized why they wanted to do an exposé. The case should not be swept under the rug, and the living perpetrators should be penalized. The people who had vilified that child should be ashamed. Saikan yearned to give the dead girl some justice./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"He looked over at Tenzin, who seemed lost in thought. He wondered again how this tied back to Lin./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"—-/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" Mako ignored the spiderwebs and dust as he rooted around in the attic. He noticed a spot that looked suspiciously clean. That was when he found another box. A crude drawing of a flying boar was on an ornate green trunk. Mako sighed, unsure if what he was about to find was something he was ready for. This trunk, labeled 134 a.g., made him wonder how old the chief was./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"He took a deep breath and opened the trunk. /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"It was filled with files and what looked like a diary. The largest file was the images that were missing from their tabloids. Blurry photos of people in shady-looking clubs. Mako thought back to how much cameras had improved and how much easier they were to move. He couldn't make out the girls in most of the photos, but he could tell they were girls. He was eager to see what else was in the file, so he closed it and opened the next one. /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"His stomach turned. Miao-Taktuq. The man who had revolutionized the camera was an alleged child predator. He realized that this was one of those cases, and he braced himself, knowing that he would be finding things that were close to home as he connected the dots with no context. /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Mako began to assume but caught himself as he realized there were more things in the trunk. Mako didn't realize how long he had been sitting in that attic when he heard his name and footsteps. /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""It's almost sunset, Mako. Could you not find it?" Saikan grunted, still holding his file./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I-this. We need to meet with the others." Mako said angrily, reading the contents of the diary. Files were everywhere, organized in piles./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin couldn't breathe when he saw two of the photos lying on the floor./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Two salacious photos. One of a non-age-appropriately posed but clothed image of a young Lin Beifong. One of a tween-aged Lin in a compromising situation./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"It was cruel how dark the world suddenly became as Tenzin held on to Saikan for support./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""No, this cannot be. Why?" The master Airbender practically howled with disgust. Saikan flipped the images. That was when Saikan narrowed his eyes. Mako and Tenzin realized one photo was written on./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"emYou cannot forget I still have your photos. If you give me any more problems, the world will see how dirty your hands really were. Chief./em/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin recognized the scrawl. It was the man who had taken photos of Lin all the time as a child. Lin was younger than Ikki in the photo./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" "This is sick. We have to get the bastard." Saikan said./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I have files. A lot of these men are still alive and free. But we should go. Hopefully, we have better news on Lin." Mako said, noting how many of the files were wealthy men with prestigious titles and former triads. He was renewed with a sense of purpose. /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Why did nobody help you?" Tenzin said to the sky as they exited with the trunk on Oogi, managing to avoid the press waiting around the perimeter of the hospital as word leaked that the chief of police was in critical condition after possibly attempting to take her life./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The furniture was toppled, the walls were covered in alcohol splatter, and there was broken glass and remnants of a bottle lay on the floor. There were empty sake cans littered with other trash. The smell of booze was overpowering. It was clear that someone had been partying hard, and they had left a trail of destruction in their wake./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The couch was stained with what Mako assumed was vomit, and there were cigarette butts on the carpet. The whole place looked like it had been through a war zone. Tenzin worried, knowing Lin had drinking problems, but she had stopped drinking and smoking for a few months now./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"That was when they caught a glimpse of the sofa table. There were drugs scattered all over it./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin and Mako looked over at each other. There had to be an explanation./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Maybe someone staged it to look like a suicide," Tenzin said, not believing what was in front of his eyes./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Or, she ended up having a binge, a meltdown," Mako said. His eyes fell on the bottles. They were the Chief's favorites; he knew Lin had hang-ups. The residue of illicit substances was shocking./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""She will hate this, but after we check it out, I think we will need a few crime scene guys to sweep the place," Tenzin said, grimacing. He didn't want to believe this was happening./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""And ask if the neighbors heard anything," Tenzin said, looking over to the lamp that was shattered./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"They heard a crunch, and a door closed./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Is it true-Lin?" It was Saikan. The two men looked over at the third as he took in the scene. Saikan's face contorted with disgust at the scent./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Lin is in the hospital. We're investigating the situation, sir," Mako said, looking into the older man's eyes. They were saddened by the situation./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" Tenzin's eyes fell on a spare robe he had left the last time he was with Lin. He wondered if he should hide it. The implications might bite him. The air master decided not to bother. Bigger things were at stake, and he was guilty of infidelity but nothing more./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""So we're retracing her steps. I brought something that might be noteworthy, but I'm not sure. It was curious that she gave this to me days ago," Saikan said as they stood in her bedroom looking for any clues or notes. Everything else seemed to be in order./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin felt relieved that her room was clean, but he walked over to her bed, where he saw some photos and a key. Tenzin immediately recognized the key and the threatening note that seemed to be blackmail from a triad./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"If you don't release Fang, your filthy little habit will be on the front page of the paper./span/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Saikan and Tenzin frowned. Lin going to triads for substances sounded like a work of photos, on the other hand, seemed to be of Lin posing in a studio and a couple of photos with Tenzin in their early teens./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Did the Chief model in her youth?" Mako asked, holding one of the photos up. He was taken aback by the sweet smile of a young Lin Beifong. Saikan noted she probably never had an ugly phase./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Tenzin stared at the photos of them, and a tear fell. They had gotten the photo taken by a friend of his uncle. Before he left her to focus on getting his tattoos, he obsessed about mastering air bending at the same age as his father and broke up with her, hoping it would help./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I broke her heart after this photo. I-" Tenzin's voice cracked. He looked down at the key. "I dread seeing what she kept in the attic. This was my fault." Mako and Saikan decided not to comment./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Have you opened the box?" Mako asked a stumped Saikan. The captain never was the best detective./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I haven't opened it, but we should," Saikan said./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"-/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Katara looked over at Kya and Asami, "I did the tox screening, but we will wait on that. Have you notified Su?"/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Yes, Opal as well. I believe she went to retrieve her mother in Zaofu," Asami said as Korra and Bolin came back to the large room with tea./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Good. I have to get back to Lin. If she survives the next few hours, then I think we can count on her surviving her get an explanation." Katara said. She looked over at the kids, hoping this was not tied to a personal failure of hers. The elderly woman wished she could speak to Aang. She knew Lin, if she really did this to herself, the earthbender fully expected to die./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I'll help you mother." Kya said, not liking how evasive her mother was to her many questions./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"-/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"They spread the contents of the box over her bed carefully. The clippings were from the newspaper and looked to be about 30 years old. Tabloids were not unlike their current state of relentless, harsh, and sometimes cruel as they read the headlines and articles. They noted the photos were cut out./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The men were drawn to the chronicles of underage wealthy heiresses and party goers of Republic City's upper echelons. The allegations of illicit drug use, drinking and sketchy relationships. heavily blaming the younger generations' moral decay, then they reached the bottom of the box, a current case file request for a young Mumeishi with interest in publishing an exposé./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Mako wondered if whatever this case was about set the chief over the edge somehow, but also wondered if it was a combination of things. He looked over to Saikan./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""We should see if we can find the case file in the catalog, but first let's get someone in here to investigate and see what they found when they ran her tox screen." Then he looked over at Tenzin. "And see what Lin wanted us to find in the attic."/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"—/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The men decided to have Mako investigate the attic and Saikan to pull the case file, leaving Tenzin to wait for them while officers investigated her home with closer detail./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"Saikan returned first. He clutched the case file in his white-knuckled hands, his lips pursed in a thin line. They sat in silence as they waited, Saikan wondering what Mako would find. He was starting to believe that the case had driven Lin off the deep end. It was explicit and deeply disturbing to think about what had happened to the young Mumeishi, knowing how much she cared about children./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"The child had been failed by all the adults involved, and the perpetrators had gotten off with a slap on the wrist from Toph Beifong. Saikan realized why they wanted to do an exposé. The case should not be swept under the rug, and the living perpetrators should be penalized. The people who had vilified that child should be ashamed. Saikan yearned to give the dead girl some justice./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"He looked over at Tenzin, who seemed lost in thought. He wondered again how this tied back to Lin./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"—-/p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;" Mako ignored the spiderwebs and dust as he rooted around in the attic. He noticed a spot that looked suspiciously clean. That was when he found another box. A crude drawing of a flying boar was on an ornate green trunk. Mako sighed, unsure if what he was about to find was something he was ready for. This trunk, labeled 134 a.g., made him wonder how old the chief was./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"He took a deep breath and opened the trunk. /p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"It was filled with files and what looked like a diary. The largest file was the images that were missing from their tabloids. Blurry photos of people in shady-looking clubs. Mako thought back to how much cameras had improved and how much easier they were to move. He couldn't make out the girls in most of the photos, but he could tell they were girls. He was eager to see what else was in the file, so he closed it and opened the next one. /p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""I-this. We need to meet with the others." Mako said angrily, reading the contents of the diary. Files were everywhere, organized in piles./p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"It was cruel how dark the world suddenly became as Tenzin held on to Saikan for support./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""No, this cannot be. Why?" The master Airbender practically howled with disgust. Saikan flipped the images. That was when Saikan narrowed his eyes. Mako and Tenzin realized one photo was written on./p
p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;"emYou cannot forget I still have your photos. If you give me any more problems, the world will see how dirty your hands really were. Chief./em/p
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p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; caret-color: #2a2a2a; color: #2a2a2a;""Why did nobody help you?" Tenzin said to the sky as they exited with the trunk on Oogi, managing to avoid the press waiting around the perimeter of the hospital as word leaked that the chief of police was in critical condition after possibly attempting to take her life./p