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[After a good cry, some good advice, and throwing down with the whole of Luceti against Aku the other day, Katara is feeling much more like herself. And she is on a mission. She can be found mid-afternoon heading towards whatever store in Luceti sells paint.

Fire Nation Red in her living room? Not anymore!]

Let's see... I guess I could go blue with green accents... or maybe something even more neutral? Maybe find a cream... No, no orange, it's too close to red...

[Katara has never had a chance to play with paints and colors before! She's a little lost with all the options. She just knows that she wants to make their shared space an open, welcoming one, one that represents all of them ~~and even the one that they're missing~~ and one which won't remind her of that stupid experiment's 'misplaced decimal.' But she has come far enough that she doesn't want it to just chase out Zuko either, although she is perfectly happy never seeing him again. Clearly, the girl is expecting too much out of paint. Someone help?]

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Thanks. Toph and I worked really hard getting it together. [Toph. Sokka. Gah! Bad thought!]

...hey, Caesar? Are the experiments always like this? Getting inside you, I mean?

[Oh hai Katara, we need to check up on you.]

What are you doing?

[She is relieved!] Might as well, right? I should probably pick out some paint for my room while I'm here...

Cannonballs, huh? I'd like to see that sometime.

[And the book, it speaks!]

Oh, hi Nami. [That's right, Katara had meant to talk to her about the whole Aku business.] I'm getting ready to do some painting.

I hope we're not still here in the spring... but if we are, I'll be happy to show you! [And with a grin Katara takes her own paint and starts walking out of the store towards their house.]

So what is it like in your world, Yako? I've been talking all about mine but I haven't had a chance to ask.

Of the house, or something more artistic?

I want to go home more than anything, but that's not all that matters. It doesn't just matter where you're going, it matters where you are too, and who you're with. I don't know if you have anyone from your world here, and I don't know if that would make it harder or easier for you, but I do. And while we're all here, we're going to work on getting out, and we're going to do it together.

They're here. I already told you I'll kill them. I'll do that enough times so that there's nothing left, if Luceti won't let me do it more quickly.

Oh, no. I'm not much of an artist. I'm redoing the living room!

[Hear how cheerful and happy and unaffected she is? Yeeeah...]

Edited 2010-03-04 05:19 (UTC)

I'd like that, Katara. Thanks.

Well, our food's really really good. There are so many different kinds.

[Uh huh. Let's try for absolute blunt.]

And how's the fallout with Zuko?

[Who ASKS that!?!!!]

He took off.

[Read into that what you like, along with a hefty dose of relief and fresh humiliation, but it will be delivered in as even a tone as Katara can manage.]

It seems like quite a few of them are, but I'm sure that's not always the case. For example, there was an experiment a while ago where many of the people in the village switched bodies with each other. Aside from being in a completely different person's body, it didn't have any impact on who we were as a person. Of course, experiments like that seem to be pretty uncommon.

[...filtering now.]

You want to talk about it?

[Well, now that he's thinking about it.] What colors are you thinking about for your room?

[This concern is so weird for her.]

...what's there to talk about? It happened, now it's done. All we can do now is fix what we can and move forward.

Oh. [There's a pause while she chews this over and hates every single conclusion she gets from it.]

It's like they don't even care that we're people! It's just a matter of -- decimal points to them. I hate this!

[...sorry, this has struck a chord with her.]

Probably a couple of different shades of blue. Maybe I'll start really dark on the bottom and get lighter towards the top.

OH! That sounds neat!

Does it have a name?

If they cared too much, they wouldn't be able to do their job. Whatever that is. [...] But I don't disagree with you. It isn't fair.

Well, there's tonkatsu, daifuku, sushi, harumonyaki, kyaraben, chuukadon, ganmodoki, yakitori, chazuke, botamochi....

All right, then.

I am having a very dull day, Katara. You want some help with your painting?

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