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

[alwayscomeback]

Okay, no I'll give you that one. That one will never not be weird.

[bolder]

Yeah it's kinda weird when you think about it too long. [She shrugs. Whatcha gonna do?]

So, any questions about the future or whatever?

[alwayscomeback]

I try not to think about it much at all if I can help it.

How are we all doing? And the answer better be 'awesome'. And-uh. Is Suki doing ok?

[bolder]

We are pretty awesome, actually. I've got a metalbending school, Aang's doing Avatar stuff, you and Katara are helping him, Zuko's fire lording it up. Oh, Suki's his body guard or something.

[alwayscomeback]

...Wait, she's Zuko's body guard?

Huh. But hey, props for the metalbending school, that's pretty neat.

[bolder]

Yup. There was an assassination attempt a while ago, so she and the Kyoshi Warriors stepped up. [A 'meh' noise.]

It's awesome, thanks. I need to expand the place, it's gotten so crowded.

[alwayscomeback]

Someone tried to assassinate Zuko? [Ugh, he can't even say he;s surprised. ] I guess some supporters of Ozai were still at large, huh?

Well, that's great! Look at you, creating and teaching a whole new way of metalbending.

[bolder]

Yup. He can handle it, though. [Because come on.]

Yeah, I'm awesome like that.

[alwayscomeback]

Well, yeah, but he'll probably brood about it for a while.

I am admitting nothing. [He so thinks she's awesome like that. ]

[bolder]

I don't think it was that long, actually. But I wasn't there.

[Toph makes a pfffft face and noise.] Liar.

[alwayscomeback]

Huh. Better not tell him that one, he won't want to go back home at all.

I. [He points a thumb to his chest.] Happen to be a very truthful guy.

[bolder]

And I'm the Queen of the Spirit World.

[alwayscomeback]

Do you sit on a throne of..

...

Spirit-y stuff?

[bolder]

No. [Just YOUR MOM]

It's pretty much the hopes and dreams of those wannabe stage actors who end up cooking in the back of a noodle house somewhere in the lower ring of Ba Sing Se.

[alwayscomeback]

[RUDE. ]

Wow, Toph, that was almost poetic.

[bolder]

Ugh, I know. Quick, give me someone to make fun of so I can get the taste out of my mouth.

[This face.]

[alwayscomeback]

Allen has a tiny flying ball. I'm sure you can do something with that.

[bolder]

... what? [This face all around.]

[alwayscomeback]

A tiny flying ball. It's a golem, or something.