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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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[Yup. We kick his ass! ...painfully.]

...then I guess it would be a good idea to have Luffy in the bushes too, huh?

[Then she nods. Katara will use whatever is at hand to get the job done.] I wouldn't mind practicing with you, sometime, if you want? It would be interesting to see how I could bend things I don't practice with often.

[She glances aside for a moment.] This place has so many threats that I haven't even heard of. I feel like my best chance is to use what I know, but if there are other ways to use it... [Hopeful upward glance, quick grin.] I'd like to try!

I'd be more than happy to help out! We should wait for the weather to clear and then just ...practice in the forest nearby? If I can create water and fog, we could probably come up with any number of ways to be impressive.

That would be really great, Nami! We could even bring Toph along so she could tell us if anyone came too close -- I'm guessing you don't want Aku knowing you're helping me, right?

[It's more out of curiosity that she's asking than anything else, and Katara now - finally - digs into her food with a will. Nothing like the prospect of kicking some ass to cheer a girl up. It's better than chocolate!]

...yeah, that's right. And that'd be great, actually. The safer we can stay, the better.

[...]

For the record, I'm not actually working for Aku. But I'm guessing you picked that already.

Yeah... I didn't think you were. I'll have to admit, you surprised me, though.

He'll work it out eventually. I only told him that to keep myself out of hot water. [Between picking a fight she won't be able to win and telling one small lie? Yeeah.] He hasn't struck me as the most bright of villains, but he's going to see the obvious eventually. I'm just putting it off.

[She can respect that.]

...he's not going to like it when he figures that out.

No. But he hasn't actually bothered with me at all past that time in the square.

...though considering he threatened to blow our house up, he's going to notice I'm part of Luffy's crew one day. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.

[...time for a subject change. But to what? ...oh well.] I guess that's all we can do, in this place.

Pretty much. Things don't change and they'll always be kind of chaotic. At best. But if you let it get to you, Luceti will just be that much worse.

[Not that she's learned this the hard way or anything.]

I've never been very good at not letting things get to me.

Most people aren't. [Herself included.] But you've got friends and family here, right? They're good to keep you going.

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