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[Filtered 100 percent AWAY from: Sokka, Toph, Zuko, Yue, Suki, Shikamaru, Chouji, Ino, Shino, Naruto, Sasuke, Itachi, Trafalgar, Nami, Sanji, Luffy, Chopper, and anyone else she thinks might recognize her handwriting, despite the pains she's going to in order to disguise it, or show the journal to people she really doesn't want to see this - Raine and Temari and Iroh.

All replies will be written unless stated otherwise. The camera is obscured by a wrapped around piece of brown cloth.]

Do you think that there's such a thing as a power that is wrong, not because of how it's used, but just because of what it does?

[After staying holed up in her room with the door shut - quite an unusual break of habit for her - Katara decides to head into town. She wants to check out that night club that she'd heard about - she heard there would be music!

From there it's the usual errands, like the grocery store and the Item Shop. Dinner tonight will be Something Spicy, but she hasn't figured out what yet. Maybe it'll help get Sokka out of his funk.]

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[She will just make sure that this additional filter is completely private, then, since an honest answer to this question is one which might be more telling than she'd like.]

That's what I'm trying to figure out. I know what kind of powers make me uncomfortable, make me feel like they're... wrong, but there are people here who I think are good people who don't feel the same way.

Some powers are bad. Sometimes they're just... weapons. And that's why they're there.

[... There's a pause, before he writes more.] But I think it depends on the person it belongs to, too.

What kinds of powers would you say are bad?

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Like... something that can destroy anything.

[Katara's confused.]

Can't most weapons do that?

[...] Imagine a city being destroyed in seconds. Something being able to destroy even the air you're breathing right now.

Don't you think that's bad?

[She thinks about this.]

No. I just think it's scary. And strong. But not bad or wrong.

[That earns a long pause from him. Not... bad? But of course it's bad, he...

He shuts his eyes and shakes his head.]

Then what kind of power do you think is bad?

The kind of power you're describing kills a lot of people all at once, and doesn't give them much of a chance to fight back. The same thing could be said of a volcano or a flood. [And she knows people who can produce both of those - and she's one of them.]

But the kind of power that gets inside a person and makes them do something they don't want to do? It seems to me like that's worse than killing someone.

[Luke can get that. That was... mostly why he destroyed Akzeriuth. His master got into his head, hypnotized him into using the power that Luke had no control over. But still...]

It does sound kind of bad... But I think you can still use it for good if you wanted to.

And you think the ability to use a power for good can change the nature of that power?

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