Ibara looked up and the smile she had when the Avatar walked in vanished.<span style="color: #b35900">"let me put this in very simple terms that even you won't be able to misinterpret. i will burn this city to the ground before i allow Nalo to return and corrupt everything i have worked my entire life to build. we don't need It. this may take longer without It's help but if It returns It will only undermine the working relationship we have built. this city is filled with people who want to learn, I'm sure you can find enough to train the first teachers, you will just have to keep looking. i know this isn't easy but nothing worth doing is ever easy. Nalo took the easy route, delegated the tasks and every branch of It's organization was filled with corruption and It didn't have a clue. It didn't ask how It's people managed to buy out huge swaths of the city but it's easy to get shopkeepers to sell when you bankrupt them by selling smuggled or stolen goods. It didn't ask how It's permits were so easily acquired and it turns out most of them were forgeries. and worst of all It didn't ask how It's buildings were built so fast and it turns out her foremen were ignoring every single safety and labor regulation on the books. It's work crews had double the usual death rate and five times the usual injury rate." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>