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Hey Zee--I mean. Zatanna. [Guess who recently found out Zee's not actually your name...]

Some of my friends got their...missing things [aka body parts] back a few days ago. How's...how are you feeling?

Hey yourself.

[Guess who's talking? Which means....]

Definitely better than the last time we met.

Talk about your first impression, huh?

[...yup; definitely starting to feel like her old self again.]

[Korra laughs. Well that answers one question.]

Someone's feeling better. That's great. I was getting worried.

Yeah, you and me both.

Then again, considering what my idiot of a surrogate brother did to get it back for me...maybe we should still be.

[No, really, she totally loves Conner.]

Your...surrogate brother? [The only person trying to get Zatanna's tongue back is...Conner.]

Wait, you mean. Conner?

That's the one.

[She already knew Conner knew her, so no surprises there.]

I knew you guys were friends, but I had no idea you guys were brother and sister.

Hey wait, does that make Kon your brother, too?

What, don't tell me you can't see the family resemblance.

[A faint chuckle on her end at the never-ending joke.]

He is, but not by blood. It's kind of a long story.

You all have dark hair, but that's about it. Oh, I guess the jokes are kind of Kon's thing, too. I'm not sure sharing certain traits with him is a good thing, though.

[She plays along for a little, then sobers up.]

So...you already knew about the deal Conner made.

And blue eyes. Don't forget the blue eyes. Though you're right; Conner didn't get quite as much of the family sass. We're working on him, though.

[When Korra mentions the Deal, however, she also sombres. Her eyes, even if Korra can't see right then, carry a mixture of sadness and anger.]

Of course I know.

I was there when he made it.

I'll help, too. He could use a little lightening up.

[Basically, Conner's doomed with the three of them teaming up.]

Do you...have any idea who the demon actually is? Conner and I were thinking about talking to him, but all we know is Wally had his...demon-y powers for a while after you guys were gone.

I wish I did.

Honestly, at the time, I was so low on energy, I couldn't even sense whatever was possessing him, even though it was staring me right in the face. My best bet would be one of the ghosts still haunting the area, but I'd never seen any of them give their host those red eyes before.

You can sense things like that?

[That's impressive.]

I know there were spirits of children around not too long ago, but everyone else said they've been gone since they destroyed the old housing.

Part of the whole hono magi, deal, I suppose. It's something my dad and I've always been able to do, though I'm still in training on how to hone it.

[The faintest hint of sadness when she mentioned her father. A man whom she hadn't seen for more than a year--since even before she'd been brought to Haven. It was a painful memory she carried with her, even now. One that the City had taken advantage of in the past.]

Yeah, I remember them.

They didn't like me.

[To put it mildly.]

[She senses a story here, though it doesn't sound like a good one. Maybe the spirits will be a safer topic for now.]

Really? What happened with the spirits? It was all way before I even got here.

[...you would think that, wouldn't you?]

They held me down and suffocated me by covering my nose and mouth.

[Oh...that didn't go as planned.]

They--oh. But why were they targeting you? Unless they were just attacking anyone they could get their hands on.

No, they were after me.

It's a long, disturbing story involving the Yao and mind control.

[It clicks right at that second.]

Wait...I remember hearing about this. You were one of the people who got brainwashed?

Yeah.

Whatever you heard about the whole thing? I guarantee you...it sucked even worse than that.

I bet. [Now that she knows Zatanna's role in it, she can guess the way things had happened.

The ghosts didn't exactly distinguish between people who were brainwashed and people who worked for Yao willingly, from what she heard.]

Do you really think it could be one of them? [It doesn't really match with what they were doing before.] I mean, Wally's a good guy, and so's Conner. Why would they go after them?

[No. No, they didn't. Although they had taken care to point out that she was guiltier than some, not guiltier as others for daring to be mind controlled for a significantly longer duration of time than the majority.]

Because they can?

They're vengeful spirits, Korra. After a point, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them simply didn't care who they were messing with any longer.

They were kids. [It's depressing to think about this.]

But...you're right. They aren't really fair now that they're spirits.

[Most softly: ] I wish we didn't have to leave them this way, but I guess we should focus on Yao first before we try anything else with them.

Not all of them were kids.

And that wasn't the first time we'd encountered spirits.

[The unspoken agreement with her latter statement hung heavily in the air. She hated it too. Especially when she thought back to Greta, the horrors she'd faced and how she'd still managed to help her and Artemis in the end.]

Really? [This is news to her.]

What other spirits did you see?

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