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[Backdated to yesterday, after her conversation with Suki, Katara has a brother to kill. Confront. Comfort? Whatever.

She looks high. She looks low. She looks... lower. Someone is coming down the stairs to your mancave, Sokka.]

[Meanwhile, this morning, Suki is feeling... less depressed and Sokka is still away from the house and everything feels wrong. Katara's a few steps short of miserable, because this is not the way things are supposed to go. She attends school, finishes some afternoon errands, and just... stares at the journal system for a while. A lot of people still seem to be very happy, and she does not want to bring them down, and she doesn't want to expose Suki or Sokka to anything but...

But.]

...is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that some people are acting... not like themselves?

((ooc: ~~Katara's first post chronologically goes to savethelastchip.~~ Tag as you will!))

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...well. At least it's not just me.

Judging from the discussions...[and...other things] I've heard, I'd guess it's another experiment of some sort.

Some of it's got to be.

[She's just hoping that hers isn't.

Sokka's? Yeah, he's out of his mind.]

Just stay steady. It'll sort itself out by the end of the week if it's an experiment.

I really hope so, Derek.

[Having Sokka and Suki like this... has really shaken her, more than she'd admit even to herself. Their happiness means so much to her. And she's come to base some of her security on their stability.

...on the other hand, she wouldn't be so sad if hers turned out to be just... the lighting of a lamp.]

It will. That, at least, is a constant we can count on here.

...have how you been otherwise?

[There is life outside of this?]

Pretty much the same, I guess.

[Sorry, Derek, her mind is clearly occupied. Also, she has something she really wants to follow up with you about, but she's not sure if this is the time and place.

...still.]

How about you?

...The same as well. Got the cave set up, now.

Well, that's good at least.

[The enthusiasm, can you sense it?]

[Is that deadpan we hear?]

So it's a mess in the village, huh?

I don't know about the village...

[Her house. Yes.] Some things seem pretty normal.

[Chouji, for example, remains awesome.]

Hmn.

[Derek makes a mental note; he probably needs to stay out of said village for the rest of the week.]

[...]

And are things... pretty much the same with you?

Pretty much, yeah.

...I guess that means you're still thinking, huh.

...I am.

Told Donnie to come find you.

Oh. [...] I'll keep a look out for him.

All right.

You going to be all right?

[No, I'm not. I want you to stop being stupid and let me try to help you.

'Of course! I'm always all right.']

...well, I'm concerned about you. [Emotional honesty ftw.] But I'm sure everything else is going to work out all right.

[It has to - she won't let there be any other option.]

...I know. It's...just what happens to [Most...all] people who do my job for too long. Unless there's a definite solution, this is just how it has to be. The other option is to risk me infecting more people and pulling them down with me.

And it will. Everything else work out, I mean.

[A moment of filter-crafting out of respect for his privacy.]

Or you could let me try to help you. How is there any other way of knowing if the solution is 'definite?'

We don't. And if it doesn't work, you're out of what you had, and I...

[Might end up even worse off.]

Katara, this isn't something we can risk being wrong on. If I bite...even scratch one person in my condition, it passes on to them, too. If I die, I come back as a full vampire. And there are people who might need what you have...and that it will work on without hoping that's what it'll do.

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