[ a detective... that sounds like the kind of thing sokka would pretend to be. she can't help but wonder what he'd be doing in the fire nation as one, since she still thinks that's where he lived before coming here. it's hard to think that anyone involved in anything resembling upholding the law would be working for the fire lord.

she tries to shake that thought away. if he really has nothing against her, then it doesn't really make sense for him to be directly working for ozai. ]

I arrived around... two or so months before you? And I know another group showed up two months before that, and I think they were the earliest arrivals.

[ so, as far as they're aware, astoria hasn't been kidnapping people for a long time. or, if she has, they aren't aware of any other groups who may have come before them. ]

As for pattern, I haven't really seen any so far. Some of the people seemed to have lived fairly ordinary lives. [ as in, no fighting, no trying to save the world, nothing like what astoria is currently trying to do. ] Although you might be able to spot something that I can't. Since... I'm not a detective.