[The feed clicks on to show a teenager with floppy black/brown hair and a nasty looking burn scar on and around his left eye, dressed in red and gold old fashioned-y looking clothes. This may be a familiar face to a few of you still on board because yep, he was here a few months ago and doesn't realize that anything's different.

Or maybe more accurately, he hasn't realized he's been gone for weeks, and he looks kind of ticked off.]

Does anyone know why my room is on a different floor? If this is some kind of flood, it's the stupidest one I've ever been here for, especially after that ridiculous "let's kick the dining hall into open space" thing last week. Is anything else going on? Has anyone seen-

[Wait. Something is definitely not right.

The feed cuts off for a few minutes while he checks the network and tries to put together what's going on here. There are a bunch of unfamiliar faces around here now. A lot of unfamiliar faces. And it definitely wasn't winter last time he checked. And-

Yeah wow what is going on here.

And the feed clicks on again, and the annoyance has taken a turn for the 'kind of freaked out'.]

... How long was I gone for?

Has anyone actually seen who's in their room? [Pause. Trying to wrestle it open. Failure.] Or been able to unlock the doors?

[Someone is locked out of his room and he is not happy.]

And what happened to the deck?

[Private to Vanessa]

If this is some prank you're pulling on the rest of the Barge, it needs to stop.

[Private to Iroh]

I'm assuming this isn't what you were talking about in your last post, Uncle.

I won't bother trying to brush all that off. Had things been different? I guess that person... during the flood, I mean. I could have been him.

My family doesn't exactly have the cleanest record when it comes to knowing how to run a country without just exterminating anything that got in our way. Or without using fear and torture to get people to listen to us.

But I know that. And I know that it's not the best way to run a country. Or that it's even acceptable. What we did was wrong, and cruel, and it had to be stopped. I saw that, and I fought for it to become a reality. A world where peace and kindness could help repair the damage and

I'm still fighting for it. We won the war, but that doesn't mean everything's magically been fixed. It'll take work, and it's not going to be easy, but that's what we have to do. And I'll keep fighting for that - a world where people aren't ruled by fear or prejudice or violence - until the day I die.

[Private to Vanessa]

I'm sorry.

[Zuko sits imperiously at a desk in his chambers, which are far more ornate and expensive looking than his usual room. It's his suite in the Royal Palace, and basically everything shades of red and gold. His hair is longer and tied up in the traditional Fire Nation topknot, and is wearing full on Fire Lord raiments. The most glaring difference though? His face is unscarred.]

My people favor ambition. Drive. Something so many people here are lacking. Very few know what has to be done, and even then, some lack the will to do it.

You have to know what you want and take it. It's that simple.

Unrelatedly, I've come to miss having servants wait on me hand and foot. Does anyone have an inmate who wouldn't mind - [Read: who wants to be an ass to their inmate and make them work for me?] - doing a few chores?

[Private to the Admiral]

I need copies of Vanessa's usual daggers, but blunted. Preferably something that can't be sharpened easily, if at all. I want her to have some kind of protection when she's attacked, but not something she can use to murder anyone.

Also, please return her stealth abilities, with the condition that I can see her when she's using them.

[Private to Kay]

I spoke with Narvin. He told me what he did.

[Private to Iroh]

...Are you busy?

[Zuko still looks pretty annoyed, but probably a little less so now that he's got thumbs again. Also, for anyone who hasn't seen yet, his room is the apartment he and Iroh stayed in in Ba Sing Se, and you all get a nice look at Scarface here, sitting at his table after going over his new inmate's file.]

Are floods usually that pointless?

[Warden Filter]

Vanessa VanCleef and Hope are the same person. It's confirmed in her file. Hope was an identity she created to lure people into a false sense of security, and she's been using it to get more information about the Barge.

Who's talked to either of them since she got here?

[Private to Iroh]

Do you remember Jet? [This is largely rhetorical.]

[Private to Wanda]

Thanks. For your help, I mean.