[ Hei makes a discreet noise, almost like a cough. His way of saying I don't know who these people are, or what the 100 year war is. He's gotten fragments from Jinora, from Asami and Bolin, from conversations he's picked up when monitoring the beach house. But he's never cared to wade in-depth. He knows the immediate background of Korra's circle, their priorities and goals. That's what any Contractor focuses on. Paring everyone down to the basics, so you know how to manipulate them, know what their triggers and weak-points are. Ancient history may have its lessons. But they have little bearing for someone who keeps his eyes on the straight-and-narrow. ]
[ The pad of his fingers nudge, just slightly, at Korra's jaw, like he knows where her attention is plummeting and it doesn't need to, but that's her choice. It's only answers he wants from her right now. ]
How did it start? A vendetta? Money? Power?
[ People hire Hei to exact death for different reasons. But most contracts, if not all, have one thing in common. The aspiration for control. Whether real or imagined. The death of one person (or persons) to free another -- financially, emotionally, geographically, businesswise, all four -- for acquiring power, snatching control. ]
no subject
[ The pad of his fingers nudge, just slightly, at Korra's jaw, like he knows where her attention is plummeting and it doesn't need to, but that's her choice. It's only answers he wants from her right now. ]
How did it start? A vendetta? Money? Power?
[ People hire Hei to exact death for different reasons. But most contracts, if not all, have one thing in common. The aspiration for control. Whether real or imagined. The death of one person (or persons) to free another -- financially, emotionally, geographically, businesswise, all four -- for acquiring power, snatching control. ]