UPDATED! (Scroll down for pt 2)

The joints in my fingers creaked. My hands shook. My knees wobbled. I had gone half blind as well. I closed my eyes to focus on the feeling of the sheer rock wall beside me. My feet inched along the narrow pathway which had begun to ascend the cliff by a gradual increase.

The worse part of my current state was the bitter cold that had settled beneath my skin and straight into my heart's driving force. My blood decreased in temperature by single degrees. My wet clothes were now stiffly frozen to my body. The chill wind threatened to freeze me to death rather than knock me into the perilous water below. (The river had narrowed more and was full of rapids now.)

My stomach growled, but I could not feel the pain. I was numb everywhere, but the tips of my fingers which tingled painfully. My head was so saturated with the thoughts of the cold I couldn't even realize the headache I'd gotten throughout the night had increased to a feverous (and cold) level.

The texture of the wall changed. I didn't dare stop in fear of collapsing, but I traced my fingers across the horizontal and vertical lines to assure myself that this was a wall of bricks. I squinted my dry eyes and the scene before me was incredibly blurry but I was still able to recognize by the dim dawn light upside down buildings. I had made it to the Western Air Temple. It was abandoned, now what was I supposed to do?

Fate couldn't exist, not after everything I had gone through. Fate wouldn't just let me die alone without fulfilling my purpose. I still needed to live until the avatar no longer needed my services. The next White Lotus wouldn't be able to help as a baby, and through some strange circle, the failure of the avatar would result in the death of all things.

Sometimes I didn't understand it myself, especially when I had thawed just the slightest bit to feel the powerful throb in my head of a terrible migraine. I have fainted before, in fact I have fainted so often and learned so much of the spirit that I can stay relatively awake before I completely slip into that dark abyss. With these brief moments of a sickening rush, knowing that I was about to hit the ground...

I heard a voice, "Who are you...?"

UPDATED Pt 2!!

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I was awake, my mind was jumping from one random idea to another as if I were still dreaming. My body was stiff from the ever increasing freeze that had settled while I failed to keep my blood warm by moving. My insides had turned off my inner thermometer, not enough energy to fuel my body's heating system. With frosty vision I opened my eyes and my near-blindness could only tell there was a roaring fire beside me, however I could feel none of its heat.

"Toph, make a wall on the other side of the fire to direct the heat to her," A young girl's voice ordered with concern.
"What's wrong with her Katara? Can't your magic water do anything to help?"
"No Sokka, her system is shutting down on its own, if I really had magic water then she might make it, but she has been next to that fire for six hours and her skin seems even colder, there is nothing I can do."
"I don't know why, but I feel like I can help..."
"Aang, go back to training, you only have till the end of summer, remember?"
"We're taking a break, I'm curious as well."
"Zuko, you have helped plenty, but it seems none of our efforts are helping her."
"I'm sorry to say this, but I think this is one life that none of us can save."
"No! There has to be something, if we have four masters and an avatar with us there should be something we can do. If we can't help her we might as well say that defeating the firelord is impossible!"

I could hear everything they were saying, but it seemed as if this was a dream. Toph, Katara, Sokka, Aang...
Zuko?
I struggled to turn my head so I could look in the opposite direction where the voices were coming from. My vision was blurry and I couldn't tell rock from person except for Katara whose blue eyes brightened as she saw me stir.

"Food," I tried to speak, but I could only move my lips and make an inaudible whisper.
"What?" Katara asked.
"She said food, she wants food," Toph muttered.
I closed my eyes. I needed to conserve my energy to eat.
"Eww what's that Katara? It looks like something from the swamp!"
"It's your bread and jerky that you were going to eat for lunch."
"But you mashed it up, you ruined it!"
"I'm sure she could use it more than you, tough guy."

I ate the food. Taste wasn't an issue since it seemed like the only sense left was my hearing. I swallowed hard and my stomach roared back to life as if it was a furnace with a new batch of wood. I fell asleep again.

This would have come sooner, but the document wouldn't load! Grrrr... also yay I finally read the OBVIOUS little shift + enter note at the bottom... (smacks self in head). Oh well... and on goes life...