☄23. [RL with Katara]

[honorregained]

[Zuko is sitting in his study, just about to give up on the paperwork he was reading. In fact, no, he was giving up. He made a loud noise of frustration and faceplanted into the open scroll, hands atop his head

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[soupbender]

[ And it's not long before there's a series of quick, sharp knocks onto the door to Zuko's study. She was set to meet Sokka in about an hour to do some shopping in the city, but her conversation with Azula had made her bloodpressure skyrocket.

She didn't really give him time to answer, standing her tiptoes and executing another brisk series of knocks against the door. Surely that's where he'd be, right? ]

Zuko? Are you in there? It's Katara.

[honorregained]

Uh-- yeah, I'm here, [he answers, standing quickly and running a hand over his face to make sure the paper hadn't left funny marks. No, he seemed to be good.] Come on in.

[Maybe he could actually talk to her about it. Zuko both wanted to and wanted to avoid the subject entirely. Not that he'd probably have any choice in which one happened, as this was Katara...]

[soupbender]

[Nope. There's not really avoiding anything with Katara, so she's just going to slip into the room, shutting the door behind her. She folds her arms against it, leaning backwards in an incredibly forced attempt to make her stance look casual. The look on her face pretty much gives her away, though.]

So.

Your sister.

[honorregained]

[He sighs, his whole demeanor changing subtly. He's not even going to try to pretend that he doesn't know what she's talking about. Everyone on the community comes to him to talk about his sister eventually.] I figured you'd ask at some point.

Was there anything specific, or... I don't know, I can't make it public knowledge that she's on another world! [Which is Zuko's way of saying, I don't like to talk about her other 'family' and that's why you don't know.]