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Toph is bored. Again

She's wandered back into the Cooper farm to check on her buildings, and see if there's anyone worth talking to,, and mostly to find food.

It probably doesn't matter where you are. Small blind girl will find you.

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Nobody worth talking to. Just some kind of dog, maybe even a wolf, wandering through the woods.

And then, less than a minute later, there's no wolf. Just a young woman pulling jeans, t-shirt, and shoes down from the tree branch where she'd stashed them an hour ago.

Toph, being completely blind, couldn't possibly have seen that.

"Huh," she says. "Another one of you, then?"

Being utterly observant, Rachel couldn't possibly have missed the approach of a little blind girl.

Or maybe the wolf had heard her, looked over and took note of her eyes, and demorphed anyway.

Frowning, confused, Rachel pulls the t-shirt on over her head and gives the girl a look. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Toph shrugs with one shoulder. She's standing still, now, arms by her side because they have nothing to do.

"Just that I haven't met anyone who can do that apart from Lucy since Tom left."

"Do what?"

"Change into an animal," Toph says, slowly, as if talking to an infant.

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck.

"You're blind."

This, Rachel thinks, should be vitally important information.

"You're smart."

"Not smart enough to tell you how a little blind girl could tell something like that," Rachel snaps, rough and angry.

Being unnerved does that to her, see.

Toph smirks, unhelpfully and lifts a foot, wriggling her toes.

"Felt it through the earth."

Unfortunately for Toph, she misses the expression on Rachel's face.

"You wanna run that by me again?"

"I felt it," Toph repeats "through the earth. It's called Earthbending."

"You felt me morph through the earth," Rachel repeats, deadpan. Her arms cross and she glares irritably at Toph. "I'm waiting for the part where this makes sense."

"Listen," says Toph, slowly again. "I'm an Earthbender, right? I can feel the vibrations you make on the earth when you walk. First you were a wolf-thing, then you were a person. It's not that difficult."

"In some alternate universe where people are that sensitive to vibrations in the earth, no, that's not difficult at all," Rachel snaps. "Kind of like an alternate universe where people change shape and no one's surprised by it."

Not that Rachel is from either of those universes, but she's trying to make a point here.

"You're new to this world, aren't you?"

Toph shrugs again. "All sorts of weird stuff going on here."

Rachel is starting to get really sick of people acting like the weirdest thing apart her is her unfamiliarity with this new world.

And, at the moment, is starting to get really sick of little smartass blind girls.

"Yeah, I got that part."

Smartass.

"So I'm supposed to be surprised you can change shape?" Toph counters. "You're not that special, Princess."

Rachel makes a face at her, an automatic sneer, and turns to finish gathering her things - jeans buttoned, shoes tied.

The gun and shoulder holster picked out of the tree and shrugged on.

"I never said I was," she replies, still glaring, tugging a jacket down from the tree branch. "Maybe I haven't been here long enough to get used to jerks showing up out of nowhere knowing secrets they shouldn't."

"If you want to keep it a secret you shouldn't go around doing it in public."

That's logic.

Also, Toph doesn't much mind being called a jerk.

"I'm in the woods, four miles from the house."

Okay, so her definition of 'public' needs to be a little re-worked here.

"I'm right here."

Toph counts herself as part of the public, definitely.

"Yeah, well, you weren't when I started."

So there.

"Right, cause my other power is to appear out of nowhere."

That's sarcasm.

Rachel closes her eyes and counts to ten.

She makes it to five.

"All right, bye," she snaps, laying her jacket over her arm and walking. It doesn't matter which direction and since she's facing Toph, she walks right past her.

"Bye!" Toph says, sarcastically cheery.

When Rachel's made it five steps past Toph, Toph flicks her heel against the earth.

Tiny little localised earthquake coming right up.

Well, now, that's just not very nice, when Rachel's all tall and clumsy and human.

And tripping.

She doesn't hit the floor, at least, but there's still a red tinge to her face when she stumbles and glares back at Toph over her shoulder. Not because she suspects of her being involved somehow - she just hates that she may have seen it.

Heard it.

Something.

Toph smirks.But she's still facing in the same direction, so Rachel wouldn't really be able to see.

But she lifts a hand to wave cheerfully behind her.

"Have a good trip!" she says, and walks on.

Did she just-

No, she couldn't have-

She said she sees through the earth, not-

But Earthbending doesn't have anything to do with sight, does-

Confused, angry Rachel is both confused and angry.

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