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[ Oh, look! A new video entry. It starts up and it's… upside down. Actually it's more like the picture is twirling, so even though it starts upside down it's slowly turning until it's right-side up for a moment, revealing a teenage girl staring at it suspiciously before the slow spinning starts up again as she turns the journal around in her hands. ]

If this really is a camera it's the smallest one I've ever seen. [ She finally comments, stopping the spinning so that she is sideways on the screen. ] And what good is it even supposed to do, anyway?! Is this some kind of mover thing? Can anyone see me? Can anyone-

[ The video suddenly freezes as if she'd paused it, then starts up again. ] -like I'm talking to a book. Great. I get kidnapped or lost or whatever and I'm talking to a book. This is just- [ It pauses for a few seconds again. ] -I can't believe- [ Pause. ] -who even- [ Pause. Finally after what seems like a longer pause the video finally starts playing again and Korra is finally facing the right way with the camera. She looks pretty panicked. ]

Okay, this book is weird. It started talking to me and there's all sorts of writing but why do I even have this? Who even are you people writing in here? This is ridiculous. I'm leaving. ...As soon as I find the exit.

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[ Korra's managed to find her way to the actual village now, still wearing the white shirt and pants she arrived in but a little more focused and less panicked. This wasn't the weirdest thing that's ever happened to her after all! Well, it probably wasn't anyway, but she wasn't about to sit around comparing them. She'd woken up in a forest with a weird book and nothing else, not even her own clothing let alone an explanation. Flipping through the pages of the book had given her a few details (although not as many as there could have been considering she wasn't exactly patient enough to sit around and read thoroughly at the moment) but really the BEST way to figure something out was to get up and out and see what it was with your own eyes.

Sometimes, anyway.

Seeing buildings had been a huge relief but the closer she got to them the more she found herself pausing. Of course part of her wanted to run right in and start demanding answers. The biggest part, really. But there was another, much smaller part that was telling her to be cautious and patient about the situation to avoid doing anything reckless.

That part sounded an awful lot like Tenzin.

Sure, she wasn't the best at taking his advice back home but in this situation she had to grudgingly admit that maybe she should at least start out cautious. Which is why she's now slowly peeking around a building, one hand against the wall and the other held up as if expecting a fight at any second- ]

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Yeaah, but no. That's what I said too when Zuko and I found it in the forest. He'll vouch for me! I went up to it thinking it would be friendly like Bosco.

And then everything changed when the bear attacked us.

You AND Zuko got attacked. By a "bear."

[ She's just shaking her head, now. Shaking it slowly and dramatically. ] Bosco… was that his name? Wasn't he living in, oh I don't know, a cushy palace? The animal you walked up to was raised in these woods] .

[ a pause. ] Unless it too was taken from it's home world against it's will.

[Sokka hears that sarcasm in Korra's voice. He is a sarcasmbender, and he knows you don't believe him.]

Yes, a bear. The journals record—

[Does he really really want to link to that? Probably one of the more embarrassing moments of his life. And there are quite a few to choose from. He stops, thinks for a little bit, but in the end he decides he'll just skip that part.]

Okay, seriously, there's tons of animals in the woods, and none of them are like the animals of our world. There's just rabbits, just foxes, just deer. I'll show you if you don't believe me.

But wait, you know about the Earth King's bear too? Whatever happened to it? I bet some vicious creature came along and made a nice snack of it; that thing had no natural instincts whatsoever!

I don't know what happened to him. I just heard about him in the stories I used to hear. But wait- how do you know what a BEAR'S natural instincts are supposed to be? [ Because there's only ONE, SOKKA. What were you comparing him to?! ]

I didn't see any animals in the woods. [ Probably because she was being pretty loud as she called out for people she knew and walked around confused. ] I might need to see some real life "just" animals to actually believe it.

[Sokka is pretty emphatic now, doing anything he can to justify his ~~terrible, terrible~~ decision.]

Well I obviously didn't know what they were! But I figured it was sensible and reasonable to assume that animals tend to act like every other animal like it!

[Finally, he just lowers his head, shrugging it off.]

Well just you wait until they start talking to you as well. You'll love that.

You can't go thinking that way about animals. You'll miss out on some good friends [ Like Naga, first tamed polarbeardog EVER ] or… you know, get attacked.

[ As far as them talking, Korra lets out a laugh. ]

Talking? Are you kidding? Animals don't talk. [ And that's when inspiration hits. ] Wait! I've got it. Are you sure this place isn't just full of spirits? Maybe that's why they're only parts of animals, and can "talk." [ Although she doesn't sound like she's very convinced about the talking part yet. ]

Believe me, there are some animals out there I don't want to be super close cuddly friends with. Their idea of happy happy fun time differs from mine.

[Sokka scratches his head with the talk about the spirits.]

Look, I don't know about any of these spirit things. I mean, sure, Aang and us saw them as we were traveling. But Iiiii... don't think it's spirits. I mean, that'd just be weird.

But hey, don't believe me that the animals aren't talking. Just you wait until you find your first critter out there. There's an "I told you so" ready for you.

Well if the animals are talking, there's gotta be a reason for it. "Spirits" was just the first one I thought of.

[ She laughs. ]

Only an "I told you so?" I'm getting off easy. But hey, you ever think that trying to be "super close cuddly friends" with those animals might help you avoid getting chased and eaten? Just a thought.

[Okay, Sokka is going to burst out laughing at that. He likes her spunk. And her humor.]

You wouldn't want to see what Sokka being hard on someone is like!

Well, okay, it might just work. But what can I say? They look more delicious than they look cute.

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