002 [voice]

[inferrer]

[In a very typical old man and squeaky voice (complete with the beard/mustache add-on), courtesy of exaggerated need to counsel while acting:]

Have you been feeling stressed? Impoverished? Unable to sleep from whatever nightmares that might be plaguing your dreams?

Then fear not, for Wang Fire is here! Come, children and grown-ups alike, and

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[ismakingwaves]

What good is telling someone about your worries? How will that help at all? What's that going to achieve? Our problems won't go away, in the end, you know. [Sigh. Sigh. Sighhhh.]

[It's a Katara without her optimism.]

[inferrer]

[A Katara without hope? Inconceivable.]

Sapphire, my wife It is called expression of self. They won't go away immediately but the rougher edges can be smoothed out along the way.

[ismakingwaves]

But Wang Fire my dear What's the point of smoothing it out? That's not going to change anything.

In fact, nothing's going to change anything. It's all so- so--

hopeless.

[inferrer]

You'd be surprised at how different things can appear if you have a more positive outlook!

No, it's not hopeless! You must be so full of hope that you're capable of tearbending!

[ismakingwaves]

But where has that gotten me? I've tried that, and gotten nowhere. It's all so hopeless. So useless...

No, you're wrong! I am so full of hopelessness that I can tearbend! [And tearbend cry she does. Good job big brother, you made her cry.]

[inferrer]

[Oh, fire crackers. No, don't cry! Because he's so into his acting, though, he's going to try to comfort the steel-hard way.]

Wrong! Tearbending must be supplied by optimism! Regain your positive senses, Katara!

[ismakingwaves]

[She can't speak without having to sniffle or dab at her eyes now and then. Yep, still crying over here.]

Why should I do that? It's not like it's done me any good.

All these years - I've been so blind...

[inferrer]

[Uuugh, panic is rising, but he refuses to take off that forsaken facial mask majigger.]

You're like a broken record. What good does being hopeless do you?

On the contrary! Being blind is young Bei Fong's duty.

[ismakingwaves]

Broken record? What?

Nothing. But it saves me the effort of having to try to see the good in everything - the good that just isn't there.

[Have another sigh between all the moroseness and tears. She is going to be so dehydrated by the end of the week :|] You're not very funny, Sokka.

[inferrer]

You've not done much window shopping, have you, Katara?

Now that's hard to believe, even for someone like me. Are you sure there isn't any good in everything?

[O-ouch.] Nonsense! It's Wang Fire!

[ismakingwaves]

[Sigh. Even this mun is getting sick of having to type out all of Katara's sighs.]

Shopping? More pointlessness. Why shop when you already have everything you need. It's not going to help get us out of here, or save the world is it?

And why are you even pretending to be someone you're not, Sokka? Oh- no, I see it now. Is it because you think there's nothing you can do as my brother? I- I can understand that.

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[inferrer]

Stop sighing, young lady!

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[inferrer]

There's plenty you can learn from looking at what the shops have to offer. You know what they say; knowledge is power. Such power when used correctly can help bring balance to the world.

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[inferrer]

. . .

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[inferrer]

NO! It's not like that!

Sokka's just convinced me that shopping *can* save the world.

[ismakingwaves]

[SIGH.]

Really? Then with all the shopping you've done, you should be saving our world and this one by now. And yet you aren't. You see, there really is nothing we can do.

And it's exactly like that, isn't it Sokka? I'm sorry.