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[What with Zuko's unexpected and somewhat... well, dubious bout of hopefully-it-will-be-win and please don't burn their house again, Katara has an unexpected bout of free time. This is both a good thing, and a bad thing, since with the craziness of her first few months dying down, Katara has started to feel homesickness pressing down on her. Couple that with Sokka's keeping secrets, his friendship with Ty Lee, and learning chi blocking, the extra time to think is not... exactly... happy.

So here she is, at the bridge by her house, standing at the arch and staring out over the water.]

[Filtered to Ginko 70 percent]

Ginko, have you ever-

Is there a time where

I need

[No. It wasn't fair to bring anyone into this. She'd figure it out the same way she always did.]

[Voice: Filtered away from Zuko, 70%]

~~So... has anyone else noticed anything strange going on tonight? There isn't a new experiment going on, is there?~~

[And pretty much immediately after this comment Katara is going to find a way to erase this voice post if it kills her. She didn't mean to upset anyone! It was just - so weird.]

[...And sometime after dinner, she'll be returning to her practicing routine outside of the house, in case she's due for a talking to ~~you know who you are~~.]

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[Strange. It seems very strange to him that people brought here against their will could contact native spirits -- but, really, there was nothing saying that the spirits themselves were native.]

Did you seek her out?

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A little bit of both, I guess. [She shrugs and sobers a moment, though she tries not to show it.] A friend of mine had been hurt. Really badly. So I was doing a lot of healing.

And while I did, she just... came in the house and started talking to me. She wanted to help. So I kept talking to her, and I let her. But if she hadn't come talk to me, I would have probably gone looking for her anyway. It was pretty bad.

[He's not going to touch those comments about a friend being badly hurt. That's not something he wants to talk about and it doesn't look like something she really wants to get into. He's fine with that.]

I'm given to believe that not all the spirits are quite as friendly.

Well, no, not all of them. [In fact, some of them are just downright - annoying. Katara still won't go in the forest for long by herself.]

Sona, the water spirit, her I had to seek out. But she loved my bending so I didn't have a problem talking to her, even if she is a bit stuck up.

It seems strange to me that native spirits would be willing to speak with us.

Why do you say that?

[He shrugs.] We're strangers and captives. It seems unexpected that they'd be willing to talk and puzzling that the Malnosso lets them.

[Cynical and paranoid shinigami is cynical and paranoid.]

I don't know about that...

...from what we've learned, the Malnosso aren't native here either. We've heard that it's only the spirits who really belong here... and they're trapped in the barrier too.

And they can't do anything either - the Malnosso control everything. They can't fulfill whatever their purpose was, can't do anything other than talk to us because we're the only ones who'll listen. And who knows how long that's been going on? I think they've been lonely.

[He grunts softly in acknowledgment. All that makes sense -- it really does -- but he's never been one to take anything at face value, especially when it's such a... Well, it gives the spirits the benefit of the doubt. He doesn't know them, doesn't know much of anything about them, and he finds it difficult to ascribe benign or even helpful traits to them. He'll keep it in mind, though.]

I can see that.

[Katara shrugs.] It's just a thought.

...I didn't really think too much about it before, to be honest with you. I was just... looking for all the help I could get.

[He echoes her shrug with one of his own. Not like he's going to admit to being cynical. Also, he's still curious.]

Do you know of many people that have sought out these spirits?

Well... [This isn't something she's exactly thought about.] All of the teachers at the school have contracts with at least one of them. And there are magic classes there too, for people who want to learn but have had a hard time contacting the spirits themselves.

Interesting. [He nods. It's not exactly something he's interested in doing himself. With kidou and Hyourinmaru, he feels somewhat secure in his defense, even if his power has been restricted. Still, though, the spirits are good things to at least know of and about.]

[He steps back from the rail and offers Katara a polite nod.] Enjoy the water.

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