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Suki is sitting in the shade of a big beech tree, a little way removed from the buildings and goings on of the main farmstead. It's safe to say that her time at the Cooper Farm has not started very well, what with meeting Sokka and finding out that he's not the one that she left behind at the Western Air Temple, and having to swallow the fact that he's with some other girl here. Hence why she's distinctly unhappy right now.

There are other Sokkas here, allegedly, but she refuses to get her hopes up about that. Meditation hasn't helped at all. So she's just sitting there in her Earth clothes, brooding, and looking nothing like the proud Kyoshi warrior that some folk know her to be.

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"It'd be good to see you too."

If, y'know, she could. But Toph means it nicely.

"I left our world the day before the eclipse."

After a well-meaning giggle, Suki nods, pointlessly.

"I'm from a few weeks after that. I got captured by Azula and her girls after I left you guys on the far side of Serpent's Pass. I was in prison while you were in Ba Sing Se, and during the invasion too. Sokka and Zuko broke me out the day before I got sent here."

"He said he joined us."

And was telling the truth, as well. Toph knows these things.

"So what was going on when you left us?"

"He did," Suki verifies.

"You were all camped at the Western Air Temple. Aang was learning firebending from Zuko so he could face the Firelord before the comet arrived."

She shrugs (noisily?).

"Um, that's it really. It seemed like you were just kind of waiting for Aang to be ready."

"Oh, well, if we were waiting for Twinkletoes..."

Toph leans back again. "We'll probably still be waiting when I get back."

There's a snorfle of amusement from Suki.

"That depends on when you get back," she points out. "From what I gathered from Sokka on our trip from the Boiling Rock, he's learning fast. There's a pretty big deadline on mastering it after all."

She's glad to hear that Toph expects to get back. That gives her hope.

"Yeah?"

Toph should really pay more attention at strategy meetings.

"What deadline?"

Suki gives Toph a mildly incredulous look. It's not totally redundant, since it reaches her voice as well.

"Uh. Sozin's Comet? Crazy extra power for all firebenders? Certain doom for the rest of the world?"

"What's he going to do? Capture the Earth Kingdom again?"

Toph sounds rather incredulous as well. "Twinkletoes'd be crazy to go up against the Fire Lord with the comet going."

"The Earth Kingdom and the lands of the Water Tribes. The whole world, basically."

Suki bites her lip.

"I think the hope is that Aang'll be ready before the comet comes."

"He'll be ready when he's ready," Toph says, not obviously worried about it. "Learning 'bending takes time."

"I know," Suki says. "Not from personal experience. But... yeah."

"I think he'll master it in time. He's the Avatar. He can learn a bit faster than normal 'benders I suspect."

"As long as he doesn't take as long as Earthbending took him," she remarks. "Boy doesn't have the temperament."

Suki's Earth Kingdon; she'll understand.

Strictly speaking, she's an Earth Kingdom separatist. But, yes, she can still relate.

"Earthbending is almost the opposite of Airbending though, right? That was probably the hardest one for him to master. Fire might be easier."

"Can't be harder."

Toph insults her friends because she loves them.

"Zuko seems like he'd be a good teacher; I'm sure he'll get it in time."

Smirking kindly, she pats Toph's knee.

"Not as good as you, of course. But we can't have everything."

Toph smiles, forgetting to be mad at uninvited physical contact.

"He's probably all right."

"We can only hope."

Suki lies back into the grass, hands behind her head.

"How long have you been here?"

"We turned up in the winter."

It was cold and Toph got frostbite.

"Is it late summer now?"

"I don't know."

She looks up at the nearby tree foliage and makes a judgment.

"I think so?"

"I've been in a big city in Japan for the last few weeks." And there was no real way to tell what time of year it was in that devastated urban jungle. "I only got here last night."

"Oh," says Toph.

Then, "where's Japan?"

"West of here, across the Pacific Ocean," Suki discloses, remembering the map that Barbara had showed her mid-flight.

"It's a massive one. It took us hours and hours to get over it in Zinda's plane."

Toph shudders.

"I don't want to imagine being in that thing."

"It was alright actually," Suki concedes.

"Smooth ride, except when there was turbulence. And there were beds and showers and things. But it was made of metal, so... yeah, I doubt it's very good for the seeing with your feet thing."

"Oh seeing inside is fine," Toph says dismissively. "It's not having anything to connect to it outside the metal."