"How about we split the difference and call it a deal?" he says with a grin that only his mother would tolerate, and even then...not for long. "It's this way," he says gesturing towards the proper building before moving in that direction himself.

The family's living quarters are a bit less spartan than the rest of the complex, with gifts from the various other nations decorating the halls. While Bumi knows the island like the back of his hand, he knows this particular building best of all. It's where he and his siblings grew up for the most part, and though he now resides in the Men's Dormitory, this will always be home to him.

Which is why the tingling feeling at the back of his mind bothers him so.
There's something wrong here, and he can't place what that is exactly. He tries to pass it off as merely the side-effect of walking the hallways of his Father's House with Aang, but...that's not quite it.

The reach the office, and Bumi gestures for Aang to stay back and keep quiet.
This...this is going to be good.

Bumi knocks at the door, and in his sweetest voice calls inside, "Tenzin, you decent?" Then, before Tenzin would have had the chance to respond, he slides the door open with a flourish.

Only to find the room...empty.