Origin of the Blind Bandit - Chapter 2

Toph lay awake in her bed listening to the sounds of the night, waiting for the best time to sneak out. She had been planning this for weeks in advance listening to the rotation of the guards, scouting the best route to get to the wall, asking for extra pillows, and in a few more minutes she would be free."Ho there!" shouted a guard.
Or seconds ... it was time.
Quickly she striped off the sheets, placed a few extra pillows on the bed, and covered them back up. Hopefully it would look like she was still there to anyone looking in. She tiptoed to her dresser and changed into some decent clothing, no more of that frilly stuff that her mother liked to dress her in. She shuddered thinking about some of them as she slowly slid her door open and snuck out. It was quiet, she could hear and feel some of the guards moving about, so far none of them had noticed her. She ran as fast as she could without making a noise to a nearby hedge and hid behind it, one mistake and she would have to wait for another night.

The first guard passed by her hiding spot and turned a corner, Toph leaped up and ran for the second tree on the right and climbed feeling for the right branch to stand on. As one guard clinked by underneath her feet she wondered why he couldn't hear her breathing and beating heart, it sounded like a drum. By the third guard she was close to passing out, it was one thing to sneak out and another entirely to lose one of her senses as she waited in the tree. No amount of self reassurance could slow her breathing, she couldn't tell where the guards were unless she heard them and by that time it might be to late.She waited for a few more seconds before climbing back down and started rushing for the wall.

This was the hardest part and if she misjudged not only would she be caught, she would have a splitting headache in the morning. Just a few more steps, three, two, one, and she dove at the wall. She closed her eyes, not that it would help, and felt for the wall with her fingertips. As soon as she felt the rock wall it started to flow through her fingers as she bent it, turning her palms outward she spread the rock in the wall and shot through the newly created hole like an arrow. Quickly she tucked her head, curled into a ball and landed on the ground with a grunt. When she had stopped rolling she stood up and closed the gap. For a while she stood there staring at the wall in disbelief before letting out a wild cry, she had done it! For the first time in her life she was standing outside her fathers' home.


Authors Note: Hello and thank you for reading this far into the Origin of the Blind Bandit. This is the second installment of an indeterminate amount of chapters. For those of you that have any questions please do not hesitate to ask as what is said in my mind is not always transfered properly into written form.

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