[Caesar tilts his head. Someone should tell Toph it's not good to assume things. :|; Anyway, time for that good old Silverberg tl;dr!]
Uh... that's not quite it. The group going out there is in charge of salvaging an old fort. The ruins of the lab are outside the barrier, but they are visible from the fort. Their job in going out there is simply to turn this fort into something that we can use again. It would function as a base of sorts, in particular if there is ever any danger from the east. [A pause. He can only think of one reason Toph might have thought it was forbidden...] I think your friend might have gotten the wrong idea. It isn't necessarily forbidden—we used filters over the journals when speaking of this project if only because it's not something the entire village needs to know about. Drawing too much attention to it could be a bad thing if any of the more dangerous individuals in the village decide they want to cause some trouble. To minimize that, we used the filters to make sure only those who needed to know would know.
Of course, it's unlikely that they actually will run into trouble, but if they do, there isn't a lot to worry about. This is a group of strong, reliable individuals. Hugo is my general, and I know we can count on him from experience.
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Uh... that's not quite it. The group going out there is in charge of salvaging an old fort. The ruins of the lab are outside the barrier, but they are visible from the fort. Their job in going out there is simply to turn this fort into something that we can use again. It would function as a base of sorts, in particular if there is ever any danger from the east. [A pause. He can only think of one reason Toph might have thought it was forbidden...] I think your friend might have gotten the wrong idea. It isn't necessarily forbidden—we used filters over the journals when speaking of this project if only because it's not something the entire village needs to know about. Drawing too much attention to it could be a bad thing if any of the more dangerous individuals in the village decide they want to cause some trouble. To minimize that, we used the filters to make sure only those who needed to know would know.
Of course, it's unlikely that they actually will run into trouble, but if they do, there isn't a lot to worry about. This is a group of strong, reliable individuals. Hugo is my general, and I know we can count on him from experience.
...does that make sense?