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[found_myway]

The medical care available on Stacy is far beyond anything that the Four Nations had, better even than the powers of skilled waterbenders to heal. Which is why Zuko is lying in discomfort now, not raging agony, as the burn on his back heals

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[kaya_waterwave]

She had been worried, but then there was this conversation, one that Kaya was not looking forward to. She had been explaining to all of the people on the ship since she popped again that she was different, that she was Kaya but it would be different telling the Gang. They had knows her as Katara for a long time, and now they knew she wasn't.

What was more, she knew her role with them, but they didn't know who she was, or remember. It was like when Zuko had been brought to the ship as he was looking for Aang, instead of at the end of the war like most of them.

"Me?" She asked. "Yeah, you wouldn't believe how many people have been getting an earful of that today. I wanted to tell you guys, but then I saw Mai and Azula fighting each other so I was a little interrupted."

She fidgeted a little. "I'm not Katara. My name is Kaya, and I'm from the Northern Water Tribe. I do join with you guys, but its after Aang puts down your father. As best as I can figure, because Katara and I shared many similarities, and I trained under her, Stacy thought I was her and planted those memories in me. I've been thinking I was her until about several hour ago."

[theregularguy]

Sokka had been on his way to visit Zuko, make sure his Jerkbender friend had been alright. And walked in on something a bit. . .confusing. It was Katara--except it wasn't Katara, his mind was telling him. And he was beginning to noticed the differences in her face, the way she stood, her hair. She looked similar, but she wasn't the right person. And yet she was familiar. He tried to dredge the name up when she spoke and it came back to him in a brief flash. Kaya, one of Katara's students from the Northern Water Tribe. She'd been with them for a little while, attending the lessons.

But then. . .why had he thought she was sister? He reeled, shook his head as he tried to figure it out.

"Kaya. Not Katara." That's all he can manage. Where's his real sister? Still in the pods?

[found_myway]

It was true. Now they had no real way of knowing that they were who they thought they were.

Except that they all more or less agreed that they were who they thought they were, but . . . clearly that wasn't foolproof.

"We already knew she could mess with our memories." How did they even know they'd won the war at all?

[kaya_waterwave]

She didn't like the implications any more than Zuko did, but really, she didn't really trust Stacy all that much these days. Now, on to answering Aang's queries.

"A little over a week ago, I was podded. Some of my friends noticed, and thought I was repodded for good. The the pod pop happened and I was told only a week or two had passed. When I woke up, I remembered my memories with all of you, starting when I was Katara's student."

She shook her head. "But I don't know the answer to why, or even how. Why get it wrong in the first place, and why take two years to realize it? I just don't know."

She had her head down a moment. She was still mortified with what happened back with Azula, in more ways than she wanted to think about.

[theregularguy]

"But. . .why?" Sokka is still in shock. He sits on the floor with a heavy, almost audible slump, staring at Kaya in dumbfounded incomprehension.

"Why would she make me think you were my sister?"

[cityship]

|| I apologize. Kaya was given Katara's memories by accident, due to their connection and similarities. I did not realize the mistake until recently. ||

[found_myway]

"So what other mistakes have you made, that we should know about before, what, two years have passed? Is my sister really not crazy? Is that war we won just a lie to make us more eager to do what you say and hope we can get our worlds back?"

Zuko pours out his sudden aggression towards the ship's voice, letting fly words that he's spoken quietly before or only considered in his mind.

[kaya_waterwave]

Kaya quietly regarded to crew, and she could see what was in their minds: Zuko wanted answers. Sokka wanted his sister and had been lied to about having her. And Aang, he had been tricked into kissing a stranger, at least, to him, being hurt by someone not Katara. She still knew them all and had wanted to get be closer with them, even before the Earth Kingdom attack.

She felt...hurt. To them she was just Katara's student, someone who just happened to help them out. =

Kaya swallowed. "Look, I can tell this is going to be a hard thing to adjust to: it isn't easy for me either. I just want to know what you guys need from me. Wherever Katara is, she's not here yet, and you need a waterbender. I'll be happy to lend a hand."

It hurt still. She looked at them and saw people she cared about and respected, but all they saw from her was an impersonator. This day just seemed worse and worse.

[knifeurrib]

Mai had ducked out - she'd needed to get something to eat, even some slop. She overhears the end of the conversation with Stacy as she slides back into the room on quiet feet. For a moment, she takes everything in. Zuko, Sokka, Aang and-

Not Katara. Someone who looks quite a lot like her (but who can tell one Water Tribe girl from the other, really), but it isn't her. She doesn't remember her very well at all and Kaya just gets a blank look before she turns her attention back to the people who deserve it. Or person, rather. Aang.

"As fantastic as it is to learn that we've all had our memories messed around with, I think we have a more immediate problem. And it's currently locked up in the brig instead of being where it should be."

[theregularguy]

"That's. . .it's really not what's on my mind right now, Mai, no offense. I'm more concerned about how much of what I remember from home is true or not." He rubs his face, looks over at Kaya. She's familiar--but strange.

"And why would she make a 'mistake' like that? Was it really a mistake? How can we trust anything Stacy tells us now?"

[found_myway]

"I already told them about her on the omnicoms," Zuko puts in. "I'm not sure if anyone on the Council actually paid attention or not."

[kaya_waterwave]

Well, this went about as well as she thought it was going to go. She realized she was more of a problem here, just as Azula's appearance was an issue. Well, no, it was really a catastrophe, but details, details.

She shook her head. She needed to leave, give them time to think. There was no point in being here while they puzzled over how Stacy could have tricked them all. She could already see that her part, healing, helping to stop Mai, that was over now.

"Right," she said. "So, I'm going to go and let my friends know what's happened, all right? Some people still think I'm in the pod. Better stop them worrying."

She headed for the door out.