[ she actually smiles at that. it's small, but it's there. ]
That's another reason why I don't think Zuko's a part of it. His answer would be the same. [ ... ] And so is mine. If there was no other choice, no matter how hard you tried to find an alternative, I wouldn't want them to suffer.
[ katara looks at her hands. ]
I can see what they might be thinking. If it's people who truly don't want to do this, and are only killing because it's to... save us... then killing multiple people a week might be hard for them. But I think what they've chosen to do is worse than trying to keep the body count low. Not only are they killing them, but it's like torture. Their hands aren't any less bloody just because they only killed one person per week versus five.
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That's another reason why I don't think Zuko's a part of it. His answer would be the same. [ ... ] And so is mine. If there was no other choice, no matter how hard you tried to find an alternative, I wouldn't want them to suffer.
[ katara looks at her hands. ]
I can see what they might be thinking. If it's people who truly don't want to do this, and are only killing because it's to... save us... then killing multiple people a week might be hard for them. But I think what they've chosen to do is worse than trying to keep the body count low. Not only are they killing them, but it's like torture. Their hands aren't any less bloody just because they only killed one person per week versus five.