step one

[bolder]

Who: Toph and YOU!
Broadcast: Everyone ever
Action: That too-- Hospitality Deck!
When: Before the 6/14 shuffle

[ACTION AND VIDEO]

[For whatever reason, it's eerily quiet, and the sound of two bare feet hitting the metal floor of the hospitality deck can be heard. (it's really for dramatic effect, who are we kidding) The owner, a small girl of fourteen, stares into space (ha!) as she takes a few slow, deliberate steps. After a moment, she crouches down and places her hand on the floor, pauses, then speaks. Or yells. Whatever.]

Hey!! Someone tell me what's going on! This isn't another weirdo spirit thing is it? I'd hit my quota for the month already!

[She huffs in annoyance, straightening up. Now she's quieter, talking more to herself.] What's with this weird place?

Comments

[kyasdaughter]

Just... promise me you won't say anything to Aang until we talk. Okay?

[bolder]

Are you kidding me?

[kyasdaughter]

No! Why would it even come up?!

[bolder]

I don't know! Maybe bec-- [She stops, realizing something.]

How long have you been here?

[kyasdaughter]

Here? Not very long.

[ ... ]

But I was somewhere else before I was here.

[bolder]

How long here?

[kyasdaughter]

Almost three months.

[bolder]

Three months, are you serious?? [Katara you know what she's getting at!]

[kyasdaughter]

[ SO EMBARRASSED ]

He hasn't even fought the Fire Lord yet!

[bolder]

[SO RUDE]

And?

[kyasdaughter]

-- people appear and disappear in these places all the time. Without warning. Making rash decisions is... irresponsible.

[bolder]

[Toph sighs, actually letting it go.]

We're gonna talk first chance we get.

[kyasdaughter]

[ haaa... ha.... this is the sound of relief. ]

I'd like that.

[bolder]

Yeah, me too. [And then her tone switches to something like... pride? It's hard to say.]

So! I'm apparently a pilot here! Isn't that awesome?

[kyasdaughter]

... they made you a pilot?

[ BUT...... ]

[bolder]

Yup!

[She's waiting for you to say it, Katara.]

[kyasdaughter]

[ she doesn't want to say it.

she doesn't want to say it. ]

-- can you even see the controls?

[bolder]

What do you mean?

[SAY IT]

[kyasdaughter]

Toph, it'd be like... you trying to drive Appa!

[bolder]

So? What's wrong with that?

[kyasdaughter]

You don't even like riding on Appa!

[bolder]

I could still drive him if I wanted!

[kyasdaughter]

Yeah, into the side of a cliff!

[bolder]

I'd move the cliff!!

[kyasdaughter]

You'd have to collide with it before you saw it.