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[markofthebrave]

[Today - hadn't been so bad. Twenty of them, maybe? It sure seemed like there were a lot less out here than they'd been led to expect, and that was only a good thing because she was tired. The weight of doing this every day was getting to her. Blood had dried in clumps in her hair, and she'd been too tired to bend it out. Now as she stood in the shower, the water collecting at her feet was pink.

It isn't supposed to be pink.

Her stomach heaves and Katara shuts her eyes and stands under the water until even the Malnosso's hotel runs out of hot water, and long after it turns cold.

The thought of going to sleep leaves her restless, and after staring at herself in the mirror too long, she goes to knock on some doors. She doesn't plan on staying long, but just - seeing - that Toph and Sokka are still all right will do her good. She hesitates, and then heads towards Caesar's door as well. When she returns, she's still awake, and so instead of a quick line that she won't respond to anyway, she makes a voice post tonight.]

Hey everyone! How are things going there?

[Hesitation.]
Nami, is... the house still standing?

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[markofthebrave]

[...hearing San refer to Moro as 'mother' suddenly cements a few things for Katara, as well as offering her a perspective on the other girl that she hadn't quite seen before.]

...because you were taken?

[forestpride.livejournal.com]

Because she thought I had been taken by them. Not to fight.

[markofthebrave]

It's almost the same thing, isn't it? They still took you, even though you didn't want to go. [She shakes her head.] I'd be mad too.

[forestpride.livejournal.com]

It is different if she knows I am fighting in this war.

[markofthebrave]

How is it different?

[forestpride.livejournal.com]

...A good fight is something to be proud of.

[markofthebrave]

...even if it's not your fight?

[forestpride.livejournal.com]

I don't like being forced to fight their enemies. ...But fighting them may convince them to send us back where we belong.

[markofthebrave]

[She gives San a small smile.] I hope you're right. Besides, the ones that we're fighting they... feel wrong. They're so angry, and I can feel how much they hate us - just because we're alive.

[forestpride.livejournal.com]

[There's something in there that she should pay attention to.]

I would be angry too if humans invaded my home.

[...That wasn't it.]

[markofthebrave]

Me too. But I don't think that's why they're angry. I heard that they're tired of the cycles in this planet - no one being able to ever really die, people being drawn here from all over... so they're trying to break the cycle by killing everyone who isn't them.

[She sighs.] And after fighting them... I believe it.

[forestpride.livejournal.com]

If we really cannot die then killing us is useless.

[markofthebrave]

That's what they want to break - they found a way to make it a real death. So that no one comes back.

[forestpride.livejournal.com]

[well. On the one hand, she doesn't want to die in this strange prison. On the other, she thinks she's done all she can for her forest at home, and believes she died there too, or would have very soon, of the demon's curse.]

[markofthebrave]

[Katara waits for San to say something, and when she doesn't Katara just shrugs a shoulder and lets it drop.]

If you're not staying in your room, did you find any place more comfortable?