"Where is she? I saw that young man from next door screeching away. If she-- She hasn't..." The grandmother looked around furtively, saw that many of the people who'd gathered were watching her with various degrees of curiosity, and shook her head, shutting her mouth on what she had been about to say.
"I told her parents that my mother left the island and brought our family here to Republic City for a reason," she moaned instead, just a few seconds later, as if the pressure inside of her was too great to shut down all speech. "I would have told his parents too, if we'd been speaking. Not that it would have done any good. Children...they never listen."
She looked sharply at Korra, and caught her listening, but maybe to something more distant. The grandmother hmpfed, but then a second later inquired anxiously, "Do you hear something? Is something else happening?"
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"I told her parents that my mother left the island and brought our family here to Republic City for a reason," she moaned instead, just a few seconds later, as if the pressure inside of her was too great to shut down all speech. "I would have told his parents too, if we'd been speaking. Not that it would have done any good. Children...they never listen."
She looked sharply at Korra, and caught her listening, but maybe to something more distant. The grandmother hmpfed, but then a second later inquired anxiously, "Do you hear something? Is something else happening?"