The rumours hadn't started flowing yet in earnest, but there has been a fair bit of discussion about someone lurking around in the middle of the night. Sokka had originally ignored the first of these because, let's face it, the tensions between the kedan and the foreigners have always seemed to be at a boiling point. Though when one person had mentioned that there was this flowing sort of black water that this guy could control, ironically that was the point at which Sokka started paying attention.

And so, perhaps purposefully one night, he actually stayed at work late. After returning with his daily reports to Stark Industries, he remained working in the lab, doing a little bit of personal research late into the evening before deciding to go home, oh, something like 10 o'candle o'clock in the evening. He didn't know if he'd run across the guy in question, but he would certainly be on the outlook.

Space Sword was a little difficult to justify at Stark Industries, but Boomerang never left his side (and was easier to hide), and so he would be armed, so to speak, on his nightly foray back to the Midnight Hotel. And instead of taking the quick way back, he would go lurking through the city as if it were enemy territory. Probably a little more dangerous than he'd like to risk, given the state of the kedan, but it wasn't like Sokka wasn't willing to volunteer for dangerous tasks. He had a knack for finding his way out of them.