001 - Video

[dustonmyfeet]

[The girl on the screen is tiny, likely barely more than 12. Her arms are folded across her chest, and her eyes, pale, seem to glare at the screen.]

[. . . Kind of. There’s also something a little off about that glare. It doesn’t quite seem to focus like a glare should.]

Okay, so whose bright idea was it to put dirt on some of the turtle shell, but not all of it? If you’re going to put dirt on a turtle in the first place, you should at least not be stupid about it and finish it off.

Also, what kind of turtle are we talking about here? Is this a turtle-duck, or a lion-turtle, or what? I tried to ask one of those kedan guys, but they wouldn’t tell me.

[A small smirk, highly self-satisfied.]

Guess they were still sore.

[She shrugs.] Anyway, name’s Toph for anyone who cares. You’ll learn it soon enough.

Comments

[holyflame]

Beats me, maybe we breathed wrong when we came here or something.

Well we were hammered with some fallen sky junk. It caused a lot of damage and lit the island on fire. Everyone's still kinda recovering from that a little.

[dustonmyfeet]

[A snicker of laughter for the first comment.]

That . . . doesn't usually happen, though, right?

[Because it's hard to defend yourself from stuff falling on your head.]

[holyflame]

Well, not that I know of, but I haven't been here long enough to say for sure. Weird crap happens all the time...but it's a giant turtle...I'd say weird is the standard.

[dustonmyfeet]

Point.

[holyflame]

So, you got a name? I'm Shayla-Shayla...but one Shayla's enough.

[dustonmyfeet]

Toph, like I said. Toph Bei Fong. Not that the rest of it matters.

They also call me the Blind Bandit. But Toph pretty much works.

[holyflame]

Blind? You're blind? Huh well you had me fooled...but you've got an amazing grasp of what's going on around you.

[dustonmyfeet]

Better than the seeing person, huh?

[Sorry, Shayla. Toph feels you walked into that one.]

[holyflame]

Let's just say when I was dumped here I wasn't seeing so great.

[And she'll let you have that one for free.]

[dustonmyfeet]

Oh, yeah?

[holyflame]

Yeah, I was too depleted to see or do much and my abilities had been taken from me for at least a day.

[dustonmyfeet]

. . . It took your ability to see?

[holyflame]

More like...the ability to move much further than a few feet. They had to weaken me severely...I guess they were afraid of being blown up.

[dustonmyfeet]

You blow up stuff?

[Is this a firebender?]

[holyflame]

Only with the best of intentions.