[ Action, Written ] .052

[markofthebrave]

[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.]

Comments

[markofthebrave]

I understand what you're saying. I'm just not sure I agree with it. If something has to be justified, then - doesn't that mean there's something wrong with its nature in the first place?

[ever-deceptive.livejournal.com]

Well, no. Justification is only explaining and clarifying--showing that something is right in whatever context. It only means that the correct circumstances for that thing to be right aren't immediately obvious. There always are such circumstances for a power, even if they're a rare occurrence or only theoretical right now. Everything with the capacity to make significant change has a good, valid use--you just have to find it.

That's really the challenge of the whole matter.

[markofthebrave]

[Everything with the capacity to make significant change has a good, valid use--you just have to find it.

She pauses for a long time. It still goes against her internal barometer of right and wrong. It still feels like a violation. The way it had been used on her, and on her friends... she couldn't imagine anything more horrible, before Luceti.]

I see. I'll think about what you've said. Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer. I appreciate it.

[ever-deceptive.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. It was a nice little philosophical exercise. Certainly got me thinking.

_{[He signs the post like a letter out of habit, scrawling '-Yeager' in sharply pointed, only partially legible scrawl.]}