During the night while Toph was asleep, Sokka lay awake thinking about these new glasses Toph was thinking of getting.

Maybe I should leave it a while, he was thinking, maybe she is better off being blind. Maybe being able to see will be too much for her. Also it saves me from getting on the bad side of her about how I look in the mornings?

As Sokka was thinking this he dozed off into a dream.

Toph stay away from them, they have hurt you enough already. Toph, no, take them off. Toph, take them off before you hurt yourself even more. TOPH. NOOOOO!

Sokka awoke unpleasantly the next morning and he was gasping for breath. His ears were buzzing and his eyes were a little fuzzy. He could just about make out the sun's rays pouring through the tent door and the sleeping bag beside him rolled in a ball with no one inside. He clambered out of bed, with great struggle, and struggled into his tight, water tribe clothes. He trudged out of the tent to see Toph with her back to him and her legs dangling over the precipice. She immediately turned around when she heard the soft, gentle sound of Sokka's foot steps.

"I don't know what to do Sokka. This journey we're going to make could be dangerous," she trailed off as soon as she heard what she had said.

"Journey?" questioned Sokka, "there's a optician here in Ba Sing Sé. There's no need to go any length. Isn't there?"

"Well these special glasses can only be bought on the opposite side of the Fire Nation territory. We'll need to go much farther than you might have expected but I'm so worried about the journey, I think we'll have to let our fantasy about that romantic moment when our eyes would meet and just one spark would fly through us both go," she replied.

Sokka looked deep into Toph's faded eyes and for a moment he thought she might just have saw him. Sokka's head drooped to the ground.

"Don't let the things you don't know hurt you," he said under his breath. With Toph's sharp hearing he was positive that she heard that.

"Sokka, do you really think that?" she spoke with a soft sing song kind of voice but as usual she didn't wait for a reply.

"Sokka I knew you'd come up with one of your useless sayings to cheer me up. You've given me so much hope."

"Your welc... hey, my sayings are not stupid."

They laughed simultaneously. Sokka knew this trip would bring himself and Toph closer together. Or would it?