My Duty [korrasami]

Chapter L

The soup was satisfying in thickness, requiring eating more that drinking. It looked a lot better than the bowls that she had in the Red Lotus. It was the colour of a autumnal vegetable garden outside, the deepest of greens.
"Do you have any bread?" Kuvira asked as she looked up to the Sergeant.

"No that's all you're getting." Suyin answered and stood at her post. She had specifically asked to do this job, watch over the convicts whilst her sister and Hiroshi discuss about their new knowledge with Tenzin.

Kuvira sighed and took the spoon in her hand, she tried to dunk it into the bowl of soup but it was impossible with the cuffs around her wrist.
"Could you unlock these please?"

Suyin looked down to the prisoners wrists.
"No."

"How am I supposed to eat then?" The assassin asked, gesturing to the bowl of soup.

Su took another look at her wrists and let out a sigh, beckoning her over through the bars. Kuvira smiled softly and placed her bowl onto the stone floor, she got to her feet and placed her wrists through the bars. The Sergeant plucked the key out of her pocket and unlocked each cuff. Kuvira rubbed at her sore wrists before sitting back down on the floor again.
"Thank you." She said.

"Don't mention it." Suyin answered bluntly and stood with her hands clasped behind her back. Kuvira had given them a detailed description about the Red Lotus and its whereabouts, turns out they've be riddled under ground this entire time. After all of that, Su thought she owed the assassin at least a little comfort in her cell. She would be staying here for quite some time after all.

The assassin placed the spoon in her mouth, tasting the warm soup. It definitely tasted better than the Red Lotus soup by far.
"Sergeant." She called.

"What is it?"

Kuvira paused and gazed upon the woman from out side the bars, she took another spoonful of her soup before she answered.
"I'm sorry." She said softly.
"For hurting you and Opal... for everything."

There was so much more she wanted to say but she had said everything that they needed to hear. They were only interested in the Red Lotus not some apology. Kuvira knew that they would never trust her, not after everything. But that doesn't mean she wouldn't stop trying, Korra didn't.

Suyin inhaled a long slow breath as the assassin's words filtered into her brain.
"You threatened my daughter's life." She stated.
"You almost killed my sister." Kuvira felt like her body was shrinking as every word that escaped Su's lips impaled her in the chest. Her mistakes were something she would never forget.
"But, you're helping us stop the Red Lotus. Your own home, your Guild. That takes... courage."

Kuvira scooped up the remainder of her soup onto her spoon and ate it.
"I have no courage Sergeant. It was Korra who turned against that murdering Guild first. She's the one that saw the wrong in Zaheer's ways, not me. He tricked us, told us nonsense and we believed it. We killed because of it." She mumbled, her head hung low in guilt.
"That's not my home anymore. I feel ashamed to even say that I once called it such a word."

Suyin took a glance at the woman, her mouth agape in surprise. These women, they had been tricked into thinking the false. They had been ordered around by a mad man, completing his contracts like they were nothing. They had killed innocent people because of a misunderstanding. None of the people that were unfortunate enough to lie in the hands of these women were bad people at all. They didn't throw the world out of balance, they were just ordinary people.

Suyin noticed that Kuvira realised that now. She realised that all those people, their innocent lives came to an end by her hand. And that's something that will haunt her for the rest of her days. It was clear the assassin was hurting and Suyin couldn't help but feel sorry for the girl. Su had never killed, she didn't know what this woman was feeling exactly but guilt was ridden all over her face.
"You and Korra are close then."