As usual, Lord Xiao walks around the Beifong manor every night, so he was not much surprised seeing his two precious little children sitting beside their grandfather, Lord Yuan, and also, he was not very surprised seeing his father asleep while he is in the midst of his story.
"You two should sleep now too, just like your grandfather," he said as he heard his father snoring. The twins giggled.
Morning came, and everyone is busy doing his own daily duties in the manor. Just as he is preparing for his lessons for his students, Xiao was surprised to see his daughter Min levitating very huge bulks of rocks in her both hands. He immediately came to her and asked her how long she has been doing it. The girl confesses that every time is gone she goes to the badgermoles and play with them.
"A-are you mad? Because I have been also controlling - I mean bending sand," she adds.
Little she did expect that her father would be very happy to hear the news and proudly tells it to the Beifong family. Everyone is happy except Lao who thought it does not make sense.
Then Tetsana came and he tells her about Min. He confides to her his worries about his young daughter. He tells her that he is very happy that his little girl was an earthbender, but he is also worried for he cannot find someone instead of those badgermoles who would take care and guide her amidst the dangers of learning the art, due to the fact that she is blind. She patted him in the shoulder and tells him not to fret for his daughter will be just fine, and the spirits take care of every bender with a very good aim in life. Moreover, she ensures him that she will be in those animals' good hands, because as a child, she also trained with animals. With what he had heard, Xiao felt pleased.
"Min, what have you learned so far in earthbending?" Xiao asked.
As much as possible, he wants to know everything about his little girl's accomplishments. Without any hesitations, she told her father that she had learned what Jiang also had learned but she is still learning to master it. She also told him her special skill – she can determine what element a bender can control through the vibrations felt by her feet.
"That is what you call seismic sense!" her father exclaimed. He gets a volume of a book and looks for that article, and read to her that it is a technique originally developed by the blind badgermoles, skilled earthbenders are able to sense vibrations through the ground by seeing their surroundings and making a mental image of it. It allows for a 360 degree field of vision outside a normal line-of-sight. Being blind, Toph Beifong constantly used this technique to navigate the world.
"Toph Beifong you say," Min is delighted as she heard that name. Her father noticed the shine in her eyes as she heard the name, and is also delighted to also notice their strong resemblance.
"I want to be like her father," she said.
"Sure, you will," her father replied.
Seven years had passed. Jiang grew up to be an honorable little man like what he always wanted. He had fully known every technique in earthbending when he was seven and had fully mastered all of it when he was eight. Very soon, he started to train firebending with Master Gajiroh, a very renowned man for his firebending skills. He had mastered a lot of firebending techniques already.
"Tie your hair son! It will bother you, or it might be caught on fire," his father reminded him.
"Right!" someone agreed. She wants to see his handsome face all the time, so she wants him to tie his hair too.
"Bing Bing!" Min called. She blushed as she was caught off guard watching Jiang. Min inquisitively looks at her best friend.
"You are crushing on my brother! I knew it!" she insisted.
"Shhh, he might hear you!" she gushed.
Min, on the other hand, had also mastered earthbending at age nine. She is currently mastering sandbending and metalbending with Bing Bing.
As the night deepens, Lord Yuan and Lord Xiao are having a tea at the kitchen. They are having a father-and-son bonding while talking about the twins.
"Eh Xiao, your children had become talented through the years," he said with his usual chuckle.
"Yes father and I am very proud of them!" he said and he is usually pleased.