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[innerfirewithin]

[Zuko's voice is a low angry snarl -- and his tone is thick -- as if he's trying not to cry, but luckily, the sheer anger forces Zuko forward, so it's next to impossible to tell.]

Whoever killed her -- whoever left her there --

[Zuko's voice breaks -- and he has to pause, to rephrase his thoughts.]If you don't come forward now, I'll come find

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[sauceytomato]

[Someone's been avoiding the network for the week.]

Zuko?

[innerfirewithin]

What.

[Oh, he's pissed. Furious. Completely and utterly pushed over the edge.]

[sauceytomato]

Calm down and tell me what happened.

[innerfirewithin]

Katara's body was on my doorstep!

[Yelling at Sasuke won't get anything done. It won't. But -- the question is just -- and Katara's body was just there -- ]

[Voice]

[innerfirewithin]

[Yeah, he's noticed. But Zuko can't blame this on you. He's more blaming it on himself, because he was entire fucking useless this entire week -- but Aang's voice makes him pause.

Only for a second.]

Katara.

[Voice]

[innerfirewithin]

[... somehow, knowing the Avatar is on your side when you're pissed off and ready to kill someone is a slightly calming thought.]

I'm at the house.

[With Katara's body, but he doesn't add that.]

[buntails]

Zuko...

[She won't even lecture about that hate, not right now.]

I'm sorry for what happened.

[innerfirewithin]

Sorry isn't going to bring her back!

[Somewhere, in the back of his head, he knows that yelling at Usagi isn't going to accomplish anything. No, Zuko has to find the bastards who killed Katara, in deal with this properly -- but the statement is just so -- it's just so, and Zuko can't deal with the damn apologies, for something that doesn't even concern them -- ]

[buntails]

I know that. [Out of anyone, she knows what it is to lose friends, to have them die, to have them die right before her eyes.

And she knows what it is to forgive the people who do it, and she knows it's not easy.]

But I don't want to just ignore it.

[innerfirewithin]

Unless you know who did it, don't start.

[video]

[coraltaijiya]

[Looking bandaged and bloody, wondering apprehensively if the same culprit of her own injuries is the killer.]

Who is 'her'...?

[She's very, very tired of all the dying this week.]

[Voice]

[innerfirewithin]

Katara.

[coraltaijiya]

[She vaguely remembers the girl -- from the rats.]

I'll... keep an eye out.

[She wants to tell him that getting angry at someone now - when they're not themselves, that is - won't accomplish anything, that it's pointless, that it's wrong. But she knows that it won't help.]

[innerfirewithin]

You have my feed.

[voice]

[kantogigolo]

[..... Okay, he's really, really curious.]

Wait, so what? She's just been sitting there attracting worms and rotting all week?

... Ew.

[voice]

[innerfirewithin]

Keep your mouth shut unless you want your tongue removed.

[It's a hiss.]

[voice]

[kantogigolo]

Just cause you losers don't mind rotting bodies stinking up your city doesn't mean I don't either.

[TOTALLY UNCONCERNED] Bury it. Or burn it. I can help.

[voice]

[innerfirewithin]

Touch her and I'll burn you to ashes.