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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. I've already been in two fights, been drunk nearly as many nights as I've been sober, gotten dreadfully sick, and keep banging these damned wings into everything I come across. In other words, very well indeed!

[That sounds very... healthy. Err.]

I'm.. glad to hear that.

[She thinks.] I know it can be a lot to get used to.

...I apologize. I didn't mean to run off at the mouth like that.

[It's an almost verbal shrug.] Don't apologize. Sometimes it helps to have someone to listen. Besides, it sounds like you've had a pretty interesting time so far.

Anyone would, being kidnapped from one world and dropped into another. In the navy we had the Press, but this is taking it to a level unheard of.

[Navy is a term that she recognizes very well, but...]

...the Press?

[Better not use the term "frog" around her, either, then.]

Er. Back home, we didn't always have enough men to serve during wartime, so the navy would take other sailors--merchant sailors, foreigners, that sort, and sometimes men who weren't sailors at all--and they would force them to serve on naval ships. It wasn't the most pleasant practice we had.

Oh. [War, on the other hand, is something Katara knows very well.

And fighting in it hadn't exactly been voluntary, but then they had come from a culture of warriors.]

Had you been fighting a war for a long time?

Nine years. It was still going on when I left, but I understand it came to a truce a few months later.

[That takes her by surprise.]

Nine years? [That's it? And they were already pulling from the civilian population?]

...does your culture train the people in it to be warriors?

[It was one of England's baby wars, Katara.]

What do you mean?

I mean the other sailors that your Navy took - did they know how to fight? Did they understand why they needed to?

It depended on the man, for the latter. And for the former, no. They were taught how to use a pistol, but they weren't warriors.

[And suddenly, Katara is very much aware that of the two sides to every war, she is not sure which 'side' he is on. The ones that were minding their own business and just trying to defend their home, or the ones that were trying to take it.]

...and why were you fighting?

[And in this case, it's not simple. "Ideological differences" might be the wrong phrase. "National interests" was another one. Part of it was that England and France barely needed a reason to fight each other. In this case, France had been the one to declare war, but as to the why?]

It's complicated.

There's always a reason.

Of course there's a reason. [There's not always a good one, though.] I suppose you could call it ideological differences. The French ideology was that the British Empire should belong to them, and our ideology was that we should belong to ourselves. Their ideology was that they should attack our allies, and...I don't think I need to go on.

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