[... Well, he was all right with all this until he heard "underground basement". That's a little ...]

Wait, couldn't you just use the tunnels or the barracks for that sort of thing, instead of some basement? Not sure about that tunnel system, but the barracks were built here by someone else, not the Malnosso - so it doesn't have any of the things they use to monitor us there. I mean, I don't mind having to put together a coffee shop, and I'm with you on the live training part, but we don't exactly have the resources to be building basements like that.

[If he knew a certain earthbender, maybe, but welp.]