A/N: I have a
confession... I used to hate Toph, and I kind of wanted her to die. I
know, it's horrible! But there's
just something about the girl that makes you have to love her. So, I suppose this fic is my way of saying, "I guess you're
not that bad."
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Gods and Magnolias
-:- signs -:-
No word, written or spoken, announced the date of Earth Rumble, but the signs were clear to those who needed to know.
When the old men who spent languorous spring afternoons outside the cantina traded their feverish debate for murmured speculation; when even the laziest students in Master Yu's class embraced their Earthbending with an unfounded zeal; when careless groundskeepers, mistaking young Miss Bei Fong's preoccupation with the strings of her harp for inattention, unaware of the sharpness of her hearing, placed their bets, it meant that very soon Xin Fu's underground stadium would be choked with the feral cry of hundreds of action-hungry fans.