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[markofthebrave]

[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!))

Comments

[Voice]

[endgames]

They're acting... happier, I've noticed. If you can even call it that.

[Chouji leaving after speaking over the journals alerted him that something might be up... but it just seems to be Katara. There's nothing too suspicious about that.

This is actually the first time he's looked at his journal in the past two days though, so he'll speak as he catches up.]

Would have to second what everyone else has been saying. It's sounding like an experiment.

[Voice]

[markofthebrave]

[Katara's shrugging on her parka to go meet Chouji, but the journal's still opened and when she hears Shikamaru she comes over to respond.]

I think that some of it has to be. [Like Sokka and Suki. Do you see that furrow in her forehead of constant concern and worry? Because she's forgotten that it's there. Seeing them like this - the closest thing that she has to a home be ripped apart - is really bothering her.]

But do you think all of it is?

[Like... you and Temari, for example?]

[Voice]

[endgames]

It's hard to tell. Some of these people were in relationships to start with, from what I can see. We'd have to talk to a lot more people to figure out if they were acting strangely.

[There's the sound of pages turning, and just that for a while. Now that he's looking for something in particular, he is noticing a few tells in the discussions therein. Brief hesitance in early stages of the conversation, for example, when he would expect a reply to come more naturally - especially if their relationship was as close as they would seem to later indicate.]

It could be that it's effecting some more subtly than it would others.

[Voice]

[markofthebrave]

[Okay, parka: on. Slinging on waterskin. To take the journal with her or to just rush and meet Chouji?]

I guess it could do that. I mean, the last experiment I kept switching back and forth while Sokka stayed with who he was switched to.