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[Hello, Wonderland! Is this thing on? The angle of this video indicates the guy in the distance speaking has no idea it's on. Either that or he doesn't know what that strange metal thing is on the ground.]

Aang, Katara, Toph?

[And why would he? His world doesn't have anything electrical-powered! To him, it was like a piece of scrap metal lying on the

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Sokka?

Is that you?

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[Finally! Katara's message is like a ten ton boulder taken off him. He's gotten several questions out of the way. Now he can properly worry about how his little sister is.]

Katara! Where are you? We have to make plans!

And of course it's me!

[This is a really urgent situation that they need to make sense of. Maybe he can talk to her about all he's learned so far and share information. Either way, having his sister in this "world" with him, and while he's worried about her, it's comforting in a way to have her here.]

Are there any good meeting places in the mansion?

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I had to make sure, Sokka! This place can play tricks on people, and I was just trying to be careful.

[All right, Katara's not the most careful person ever, and she knows it. But she had to be sure.]

Plans for what? You just got here, so you probably don't know: there's no way to leave.

[She frowns, because she hates the idea of being stuck without being able to go home, but it's something she's learning she has to accept.]

I'm in my room. Do you want to meet there?

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[Tricks like timeline shenanigans? Because he already had a run in with that one.

And, really? This just raises even more questions. How long had Katara been here, for one.]

Well, I don't believe that! I can't just sit around! And either way, stuff still needs planning!

[Schedules have to be made! He has to get important information out of people to make his plans!]

Yeah, that sounds like a good place. Where's your room? I guess I need to get one too.

[He's not nearly as accepting of this place just yet.]

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[Katara resists the urge to roll her eyes. She hasn't been as thorough as Zuko, as far as testing the theory that they can't leave the mansion, but she's convinced it's true.

Sokka will just have to get used to it, because like it or not, they're not going anywhere.]

No one said anything about sitting around. There's things to do here, like meet people and have fun.

There's no war here, Sokka.

[Well, there's a few outbreaks and uprisings once in awhile, if the situation with the former queen is any indication, but it's not on the same scale as the war back home.]

It's on the ninth floor, number ninety.

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[No war? That's something he's always wanted, but back in his own world. There are many ways this situation could be worse, actually... Not having war added on top of it is probably a blessing.]

Okay, I might change my mind. Might. After I see all the stuff in this place.

[...Room ninety on floor nine? Okay, that's quite a climb, but he can manage it. Ten minutes is what it takes. Also, screw knocking. He's just gonna barge in Katara's room.]

How long have you been here? Nothing weird's happened, right? Besides some weird thing throwing us in here, right?

[He's still pretty bent out of shape because of that conversation with Zuko, but... He probably would have noticed people fighting. It's pretty difficult to miss if a place had a war going on.]

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Just take a look around and talk to people, and maybe you'll change your mind. Maybe.

[Katara's still forming her opinions of this place, so she and Sokka are basically in the same boat.

Oh, there he is, entering her room without knocking. But he's her brother, so she doesn't mind as much.]

I haven't been here very long, so I don't know that much about everything that's going on, but what I do know is that this place definitely plays tricks on you.

Something happened where our mirrors plotted against the queen who was running this place, and some of them ended up on this side, and we were sent over to their side.

[She frowns and pulls at her hair.]

It doesn't make a lot of sense, but I ended up on the other side of the mirror.

[She points to the mirror in her room.]

[Action] Dear sweet everything, I have the worst luck. I CAN FINALLY TAG ALL THE THINGS

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[...What? Mirrors?]

Wait, I heard about a revolt, but mirrors? How does that work?

[One step at a time, please.

Sokka's going to wander over now and poke the mirror. How...? He glances from the mirror to Katara.]

Okay, so, basically, this place had a queen, and the mansion decided to eat her, and we're supposed to live inside the mansion and act like it's not going to eat us? All I'm saying is, that's really something we should think about. What if we get eaten in the middle of the night?!

[Feel free to blame this wording on Zuko.]

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I don't know, Sokka. All I know is that on the other side of the mirrors are people who look like us, except... Well, they're different somehow.

I don't really know what mine's like, except that I think she's angry.

And we're not going to get eaten! The queen was bad. None of us are bad.

[She pauses.]

Well, there are some people here who I think aren't good, but... We're not bad.

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[His gaze is back on the mirror. What? He can see his reflection clearly, and it looks the exact same!]

Well, mine doesn't look angry, so...

[He shrugs.]

And, yeah, someone said the exact same thing about the queen. I just don't know. It's really fishy.

[He pauses his silent interrogation of Katara's mirror for a more important question.]

...You're talking about Zuko, right?