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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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"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."

"Ah right," Suki replies. "That makes sense."

Something occurs to her.

"Hang on. I thought Earthbenders couldn't work with metal."

Yeah, there are some things that Sokka didn't catch her up on. He dwelt more on the things that revolved around him. Shocking!

"Most can't."

If Toph had lapels, she'd tug at them. If she were wearing suspenders, she'd ping them.

As it is, she tucks her hands into her hair at the back of her hair.

"Only one earthbender in all of history can bend metal."

"You?"

Suki looks at Toph with whole new levels of respect and admiration.

"Wow! That's amazing."

The display of egotism is amusing too, and she lets out a little giggle at that.

"I'm truly humbled to be in the presence of that incredible Earthbender."

"Yeah you are."

Girl never gets bored of the love.

"I'm the greatest ever."

More giggling from Suki.

"Yes, you are."

If not for her metal-bending, then for the fact that she's managing to take Suki's mind off the depressing situation with the Sokkas. Unintentional it may be, but it's very very welcome as far as the Kyoshi is concerned.

"I'd bow down to you, but I'm too comfortable."

"That's OK," Toph allows. "I couldn't see you bow anyway. It's enough that you want to."

Suki smiles to herself and lets the subject peter out naturally.

After a few moments, she comes back with something completely different:

"Do you think any time will have passed when we get home?" she muses, "or will we arrive back at the exact moment we got flash-banged?"

She's been ~~romanticizing~~ thinking about home since they talked about it a few minutes ago. And who can blame her?

"How'm I supposed to know?" Toph returns. "I don't even know how we're getting home."

"No," Suki sighs. "Me either."

"I'm going to search for a way though. There must be one. It can't just be a one way thing."

She rolls her head sideways to look at Toph.

"We could look together if you like. Barbara gave me an ear communicator thing so I can talk to her from wherever. We can let other people know if we find a way."

It's unclear why she assumes they'll have a chance to communicate before they get teleported back, when she had none on the outbound trip. Apparently logic is for Sokkas, not Suki.

WOO A PLAN.

"OK," says Toph. "Is Sokka coming?"