"Come on," she urged. "Work with me here!"
She slammed five more gold pieces onto the counter and stood firm, saying, "This is my final offer, bub. You either give me the damn boomerang or we're gonna have some trouble."
The man who stood before her cowered in fear, sliding the object across the counter as if he had never put up an argument. Indeed he had, causing the blind earthbender to lose her patience and just demand he hand it over.
"Thank you." She said through clenched teeth, gripping the weapon tightly. "Now where did you get this?"
"I f-found it near the docks!" He sputtered.
"You're lying."
"N-no, I'm-"
"Stop lying!"
"A friend of mine gave it to me!" He finally admitted. "Don't go after him, please, he said it was an old family treasure he'd been dying to get rid of!"
"He was lying." Toph concluded. Her fingers ran over the edges of the boomerang, feeling all the familiar dents and scratched off paint. "This belongs to someone else." She paused, turning around and delivering a bitter "Have a nice day."