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[kyasdaughter]

Who: Katara & everyone!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: On the Blue Fish, if anyone is so inclined
When: now!

[ katara flashes a brief smile at the communicator, expression genuinely content, but it's clear that she's distracted by something. ]

Have you ever run into someone from your world that you've never met before? In places like here -- like Drift Fleet or Paradisa or Adstringendum or anywhere else. I guess, specifically, I mean... has anyone else ever met someone from their own future?

[ because it's something she's been dwelling on a lot, recently. ]

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[dancingmd]

He came from the future. Not very far but... far enough. [Her expression becomes grim.] A lot can happen in three years.

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[kyasdaughter]

[ katara's expression tightens a little at the grimness on beverly's, before she shakes her own head slightly. ]

Are you alright?

[ she wants to talk about who she met - aang's reincarnation, her own children - but it's important to stop, to make sure that beverly doesn't want to talk about something herself first. ]

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[dancingmd]

It's - I'm alright. But whenever I go home, I'll be going back to a war, a war that hasn't happened yet from my perspective. For Julian though... he's a prisoner of war. Not knowing what's happening to him is difficult.

[She tries to give Katara a reassuring smile, but it falters a little.]

I'll be fine, I promise. What was it that you wanted to talk about?

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[kyasdaughter]

[ her face remains somber at that. ]

All wars have to end, someday. I hope he's alright, for your sake and his both. [ she hesitates slightly, not sure that just chittering away about her own life now is really appropriate. ]

Nothing in particular, really. I met some of my own family that I don't have, yet, and I was wondering if anyone else had ever been in that boat.

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[dancingmd]

Thank you.

[This time, the smile is a little stronger.]

Like your children, you mean? No, I haven't had anyone like that. I think - or at least I hope - I'm a little too old for any unexpected children. Grandchildren maybe, but... so far it's just been Julian, and there was another man when I first got here, though I didn't get to know him very well since he left soon afterwards. Neither one was directly connected to me.

I'm sure it must have been strange for you, to say the least.

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[kyasdaughter]

Grandchildren, actually. Or, well - granddaughter. Not for long, but she was really nice.

[ brave, and clever, and an airbender, of all things. katara clears her throat slightly, vaguely embarrassed again. ]

It was awfully strange, yeah.

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[dancingmd]

How old was she? I mean, did you meet her as a child or an adult?