Yeah, it's terrible, isn't it? Like being half-deaf.

[She gives Korra a sympathetic look.]

But in some ways, it's an advantage. I've been pushing against the power cap for almost three years now, and I'm easily just as strong now inside the barrier as I was outside of it when I first got here. So you can look at it like resistance training.

[...belatedly, it crosses Katara's mind that someone might not have explained the barrier to Korra yet.]