I travelled with a different group after temporarily splitting from Sokka, Katara and Aang. Zuko came with me, and we made a team with Ty Lee and Mai. It was easy to tell who was who. Zuko, with trouble keeping a lid on his emotions, Mai, with no emotions she would show, and Ty Lee, who was strange, all felt different in the ground. Usually, Ty Lee was walking on her hands, which was a dead give-away. When we came to a stop, I sat down on the floor and crossed my legs, and felt Ty Lee drop down after me.
"So, Toph," I heard her say, before feeling her crawl toward me. "You're blind, right? I've never met anyone blind before, that's really strange," she told me.
"Strange?" I questioned, knowing that she was close, and still crawling. "You're one to talk calling me strange, miss circus freak."
"No, no," she answered, laughing. "Strange isn't a bad thing at all. I'm strange, you're strange." I felt the muscles in her face shift to a smile, and her hand press against my cheek. "If there's anything I learnt at the circus, it's that strange is another word for interesting. Nobody wants to see normal people, they want quirks."
I remembered my days as the champion, the Blind Bandit, and smiled. "Yeah, I guess they do."
"See?" she said to me. "We're both strange people. I think that's a great thing to be."
I took on Ty Lee's advice. Maybe strange did just mean interesting. I wouldn't take offence to it any more.