[ Twining his fingers with Korra's, Hei follows her gaze to Pai's room. In the hall, he pauses to listen. The door is shut, all is quiet. As if the person inside is quiet and still, too. There's a thin pencil of light from the gap where the door doesn't quite meet the jamb. When they were children, decades ago, Hei used to read to her in bed at night without a lamp on, the room completely dark except for the outline of the drawn shades, an atmosphere of sleepy childish contentment spinning between them. There's none of that now. Pai's corner of the hall feels dark, despite the lamp in the corner which mainly serves to produce shadows. It radiates, as it always does, an aura of transience and isolation and either very little or too much sleep. She always locks her door. ]
[ Resisting the urge to knock, check on her, Hei tugs Korra in the direction of his own door. The room is in an indigo darkness, the patterned glass scattering almost watery shadows where it can, giving the impression of a little bedroom being at the bottom of the sea. It's surprisingly small. There's a narrow bed; a wardrobe; a dresser; books; a desk. Yet the furniture manages not to fill the space in the slightest. For all of BK201's sharp urbanity on-duty, there's something strangely unsophisticated about the slightly mismatched furniture and the sense of hard study which seems to be built into the very floorboards. ]
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[ Resisting the urge to knock, check on her, Hei tugs Korra in the direction of his own door. The room is in an indigo darkness, the patterned glass scattering almost watery shadows where it can, giving the impression of a little bedroom being at the bottom of the sea. It's surprisingly small. There's a narrow bed; a wardrobe; a dresser; books; a desk. Yet the furniture manages not to fill the space in the slightest. For all of BK201's sharp urbanity on-duty, there's something strangely unsophisticated about the slightly mismatched furniture and the sense of hard study which seems to be built into the very floorboards. ]