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[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.]

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[markofthebrave]

You could always have tried wearing a mask.

[What do you mean, 'My, what trivial topics you seem to be sticking to today, Katara?']

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[endgames]

Tch. I thought about borrowing one of Shino's trench coats more than once.

[Uh-huh. Well. Sometimes we need trivialities in our lives again.]

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[markofthebrave]

[Ew.]

Really? That's... pretty desperate.

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[endgames]

Oi, oi. I said thought about it.

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[markofthebrave]

It's still pretty desperate! Who knows how many of his bugs just... stay in there.

[She is seriously not letting you get away with this.]

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[endgames]

Probably not a lot. They live inside him, not his clothes.

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[markofthebrave]

[YET ANOTHER POWER THAT IS JUST PLAIN WRONG.]

Your world is so disturbing.

[Slight note of unintended serious there, may go unnoticed.]

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[endgames]

[OR MAYBE NOT. He raises an eyebrow, but given what he's heard of other people's worlds... he can understand it too. There are people where he's from with some pretty grotesque abilities - and he doesn't even consider Shino to be one of those people anymore. That says something right there.]

Yeah, it kinda is. [And he misses it.] Shino's bugs aren't so bad, though. It sounds creepy, but that's the only way for them to live, really.

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[markofthebrave]

[She remembers.]

There aren't any bugs in the South Pole.

[Our worlds are really different.]

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[endgames]

That doesn't surprise me. Bugs have this issue with cold weather. [Said with a chuckle. He shakes his head.] But I bet you ran into some while you were traveling.

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[markofthebrave]

Almost as soon as we left.

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[endgames]

Figured. Haven't heard of a world yet that doesn't have them.

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[markofthebrave]

[Shrug. She doesn't have much to say. It's been a long day.]

So I heard you took Yue to Lucetiland. That was nice of you.

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[endgames]

[He shrugs in turn.]

It was either that or pai sho. I figured she'd like that better than sitting in an empty house with me.

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[markofthebrave]

Was she okay? She didn't say much [really] when we got back.

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[endgames]

She liked the amusement park a lot. I think she had a good time. She was definitely more lively there, than at the house.

It doesn't sound like she knows a lot of people, though. She missed you guys.

[He's pretty sure of that.]

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[markofthebrave]

I know. But I'm glad she didn't have to go. She's a really good person... maybe I'll be able to get her to come with me once school starts.

[Luceti has been hard on her.]

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[endgames]

You want her to meet people - not bore her out of her mind, Katara.

[Joking, obviously. The school probably would be a good place for her to meet people.]

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[markofthebrave]

Hey, just because you don't like school doesn't mean other people can't. I happen to enjoy it.

[Hmph.]

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[endgames]

[He just sighs and shakes his head, adjusting the groceries in his arms. You poor thing, Katara. 8|]

If you say so. You think it's something she'd be interested in, then?

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[markofthebrave]

I think she'd enjoy learning about other worlds. And that it would be good to get her out of the house and meeting different people.

[Like not Sokka. Like any male not Sokka. Who wasn't a jerk. And had a pulse. They had to exist somewhere.]

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[endgames]

[so does that mean Brook is out /shot]

It's a start. There's gotta be more interesting things you can get her involved in, though.

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[markofthebrave]

[Brook was never IN

Eyebrow.]

Like all the interesting things you're involved in?

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[endgames]

[No. Definitely not those.]

I like simple things. That's my idea of having fun. Doesn't mean I can't think of better ways to spend my time.

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[markofthebrave]

[Katara wrinkles her nose at him. This would be the part where she says 'You're welcome to try and help her figure out what they are,' but... really, if they end up having a falling out in the next few days that would just be awkward.]

Yue's smart. If there's something she wants to do, she can figure out a way to do it herself. She knows we'll support her. She just had a... really rough adjustment period.