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[Due to Sokka's unexpected bout of sheer win, Katara has been given the gift of free time and she plans on making the most of it... after she was shooed back to bed due to threats from Sokka that made no sense at all.

First, she wants to check in on Sanji at the Strawhat's House. Then she wants to stop by the school and see if she can register to go once things are back to 'normal.' And... she has an idea that is going to lead her to the weapons shop. Finally, she'll go grocery shopping because they're running low on easy-to-cook things. Maybe she'll even get a chance to stand by the bridge and practice with real waterbending! ...although saving her strength to keep healing Zuko is probably a better idea. She'll probably just stare at the water wistfully and talk to Sona.

If you're around any of these places today, feel free to say 'Hey!' or give her hand, since she's not exactly sure how to do what she wants to do at the smithy or the school.]

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[She hadn't even considered them - Sokka used them, and in a fight she would need to fill a different hole than he did. For Katara, this is all about swallowing her pride and bending to practical necessity. But something about the way he says that... makes her want to chase him down and question him, despite the fact that she's had enough of having her world shaken today. The wounds his words poked at were old and deep, and quick to flare up still - but in the face of something else they could subside just as quickly. And since Katara is never one to back down from a fight - that is exactly what she does. Catching up to him, she touches his arm to get his attention.]

Nash. Why did you say that?

Well, remember what you were saying about not wanting to feel useless without your bending?

[For a moment, she just stares at him. And then... oh. She'd thought they'd been through this.] That idiot.

[The look she directs to Nash is fierce. And it's not even at him - the fact that Sokka's been walking around feeling like this again makes her furious. ~~Seriously, doesn't he know the only one allowed to feel insecure and that the whole world is on his back is her?~~ But it makes sense - so many people in Luceti have powers. She loved and valued her bending... but she also vividly remembered how for years it was completely worthless, an annoyance to everyone in the village, while Sokka was the one who got to do cool stuff like learn to hunt and fight and she was the one in the cooking tents or mending his pants. But powers weren't always what mattered - everything came down to how you used it. And here Sokka is, going to school behind her back, talking to strangers about his fears... All this rushes in like a flood and comes out in one sentence.] Sokka is far from useless.

I completely agree. His insecurity is ill-founded and somewhat exasperating. That doesn't change the fact that it's there.

[Thanks, Nash. Add another worry to her list. Right now? She's just so angry that this is yet another thing that she can't fight - why can't he see that everything he does--] I'm not going to stop learning how to adapt here in order to spare Sokka's feelings.

[She's been useless and helpless too many times to go back to that, even for this, but for a split second - she considered it.] And I'm not going to hide what I'm doing from him, either. But I won't use a sword or a boomerang. I don't think I'd be any good at them anyway.

[She exhales. This isn't Nash's fault.] Any other suggestions?

Sometimes we do things we shouldn't have to for the sake of people we care about. [He shrugs.] I don't think you should stop training, if you want to train. And I don't have anymore suggestions. At least not off the top of my head.

[Well, that's just great.] All right.

Thanks for the heads up. [I guess.]

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