Those were a lot of good questions, and Katara could see that Ben had put a lot of thought into them. If he'd talked to the Seer and barely got answers to these questions, that meant that Cargyn had specifically not answered them...and that meant that it was possible he was hiding something too. The more Katara thought about it, the more unsettled she got. Ben was introducing a train of thought that was scary: it was possible that everything they'd fought for was in question now.
"I trust the Seer," Katara said, "But you're right about a few things. We HAVE never seen the Ohm, and though its possible we might be getting shielded from them by the ship in the first place, its possible we are getting used as 'living batteries.' The thing is, that doesn't explain a lot of other things too, like the types of people Stacy's pulled in the first place. Superheroes, aliens, that's one thing, but there are children here with no powers too, and I'd like to think Stacy and the Daligig aren't using them for that purpose. Then begs the next question: why the Sensoriums and the ship, and the political structure here on the ship other than to prevent chaos? While its possible that the Daligig are manipulating us, we have telepaths that can sense whether Stacy means ill toward us, or actual good intent. We are sure about Stacy in some circumstances: she prevents infighting, she intercedes when we are close to falling apart. But that doesn't mean all of our questions have gotten answered either."
But as for standing up for the Ohm, Katara's face hardened a little. "I'd like to believe the anger on the end of the Ohm is misunderstood Ben, I would. The last thing I want to do is jump into a fight when it isn't needed. The thing is, I've seen and fought things on the ship and off that tried to kill us for no other reason other than malicious intent. It's possible they want something from us, its possible that they just have an inferiority complex, I'm not sure. But I'm not willing to die to find that out either. I'll hold off killing anything if I can, its not in my nature. But if it tries to hurt the people I care about, I'm not going to ask it questions, I'm going to fight back. Sometimes...people fight and attack and try to kill you because they can and want to. I've seen that happen in my world enough times to tell you its possible."
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"I trust the Seer," Katara said, "But you're right about a few things. We HAVE never seen the Ohm, and though its possible we might be getting shielded from them by the ship in the first place, its possible we are getting used as 'living batteries.' The thing is, that doesn't explain a lot of other things too, like the types of people Stacy's pulled in the first place. Superheroes, aliens, that's one thing, but there are children here with no powers too, and I'd like to think Stacy and the Daligig aren't using them for that purpose. Then begs the next question: why the Sensoriums and the ship, and the political structure here on the ship other than to prevent chaos? While its possible that the Daligig are manipulating us, we have telepaths that can sense whether Stacy means ill toward us, or actual good intent. We are sure about Stacy in some circumstances: she prevents infighting, she intercedes when we are close to falling apart. But that doesn't mean all of our questions have gotten answered either."
But as for standing up for the Ohm, Katara's face hardened a little. "I'd like to believe the anger on the end of the Ohm is misunderstood Ben, I would. The last thing I want to do is jump into a fight when it isn't needed. The thing is, I've seen and fought things on the ship and off that tried to kill us for no other reason other than malicious intent. It's possible they want something from us, its possible that they just have an inferiority complex, I'm not sure. But I'm not willing to die to find that out either. I'll hold off killing anything if I can, its not in my nature. But if it tries to hurt the people I care about, I'm not going to ask it questions, I'm going to fight back. Sometimes...people fight and attack and try to kill you because they can and want to. I've seen that happen in my world enough times to tell you its possible."