Don't Turn Your Back
7
Heaven
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Some say being blind is the worst punishment they think of. A curse given to children whose parents angered the Spirits in one way or another.
These people have obviously never met me.
They do not understand that my blindness is a gift. Earthbending skills rivaling even the most elite of the Earth Kingdom soldiers. Trained by the original earthbenders, I was almost unstoppable and I was only twelve. Ears so finely tuned can pick up a drop of a coin on a pillow. Feet that can see more precisely than any eye and can sense through almost any lie.
Yes, I am that good. No one, ever since Princess Sparky, has been able to get past these toes of mine.
There were other things that made this supposed 'curse' more bearable. Make this 'affliction' seem more like a miracle. A seemingly perfect paradise on this war torn world.
Moments that made life make all the more sense.
His breath comes in a constant cycle. Lungs pumping his chest up and down. Ave you ever sat and just listen to the sound of someone's breathing? Even if it's a dying breath, the last gasping, a last attempt at life, I swear, nothing is more calming.
His voice comes in a constant buzz. A fly floating around, not loud enough to bother you but still making it's presence known. He talks about how the fish aren't biting, how his sister and the Avatar should just finish messing around get together and how he hopes that tonight's dinner will include some form of meat.
I talk to him back; he seems calmed by my presence. He always needs someone to pay attention to him, someone to bother him, someone to remind him that he's not an ordinary guy. I don't mind, it's easy talking to him, bothering him, secretly harboring a crush that he is so innocently ignorant of.
As we sit on a sky bison's back, Sokka pole sitting loosely in his hands and his fruitless search for nourishment continues I simple breathe him in.
His heart steadily pumps. Each convulsion a small wonder, it's the most amazing feeling in the world. But only he matters in the few seconds where his heartbeat fills my senses.
"Toph, are you even listening?"
"Yeah, yeah keep talking Snoozles it's not like I've got anything better to do."
A/N
This was based on a piece by poorachan on DeviantArt entitled 'The Sound of You'
Check it out! It's really great!
Anyway, this was short but I like it.
So meh.