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She was leaning against the alley-wall, breathing hard wiping her dark black hair out of her face. One eye a bright emerald green, the other a faded jade, she gripped the edge of her skateboard tight. A trickle of sweat dripped down the side of her alabaster face. She could hear the light pounding of feet on the streets; she crouched down hiding near the trashcans.
"She can't have gone far." Growled one voice, it seemed older, perhaps a man that was in his 30's
"Mr. Bei-Fong will kill us if we lose his precious daughter." The second sounded panicked and younger.
"I don't think she would have come down this way. Come we'll go the other way." She heard the feet walking away. Sighing she rested her head against the solid brick wall behind her.
She pulled her bag off her thin shoulders. She examined the contents inside. Three sets of clothes, jeans and t-shirts mostly. Another pair of converse, these pair black, her favorite pair of green ones already on her feet. All a small box with a few dozen earrings, necklaces and rings all in either silver or gold; those she could sell for cash. Also a small wad of cash in twenties.
'Dad's really got to change the password for his voice activated safe, I mean seriously, 'Supported Lotus' anyone who knows what my name means could figure it out. Plus he constantly refers to as that; it's easy to get it recorded.' Thought Toph before zipping up the bag and settling it back on her shoulder. However, not before she tucked a twenty into the pocket of her green shorts.
She stood and dusted herself off before looking at herself in a cracked window of the building she was leaning against.
Her once long black hair she had cut short, with a pair of kitchen scissors, it was just an inch shy of her earlobe. Longer in the front shorter in the back because of the angle she was cutting. Her black t-shirt proclaimed 'SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT' in large bold letter in yellow. A thin black leather jacket was over it. Her shorts, that were just once green jeans, were cut right under her knee. Her feet were shod with green high-top converse.
She dropped the skateboard and skated out of the alleyway toward the bus-stop dodging people left and right. She was quite skilled for a blind fourteen year old.
She got to the bus stop and boarded, she was the only one on board.
"Where to lil' miss?" asked the driver, a toothpick sticking out of from between his lips. However, he was not a dirty man; he wore a spotless gray t-shirt under a button down blue shirt. Bother were tucked into dark blue jeans with a pair of plain brown shoes on his feet.
"I—I'm not sure." Toph wracked her brains for a town or city that was far away from here, she had heard from one of her guards that small town that was halfway down the coast called Yue.
"Miss? Hello Miss?"
"Oh I'm sorry." Toph toke a deep breath, "If you can take me as far as you can to the town Yue that would be great."
"Yea. I can take you about halfway. Nevertheless, the bill is a little expensive. I'm not sure if you could pay for it."
"How much?" asked Toph slipping off her backpack, she began to rummage through it.
"45.50." he answered, "But I kid like you wouldn't have that sort of money on their person."
"Here" Toph handed him three twenties, "Keep the change." She took her seat in the back, not noticing the man has startled expression. He shook himself and started up the bus and head for Highway 67.
Toph closed her eyes and ginned, 'I'm finally free. . ." was her last thought before she fell asleep against the window.
Toph awoke to a light tapping on her shoulder, "Miss, the driver told me to wake you. You are at your destination young one." Toph sat up quickly and looked into the golden brown eyes of an older man.
His steel-gray hair was combed back showing a receding hairline. His clothes were simply a pair of dark brown slacks, a red button down shirt with a golden brown blazer over it, his feet shod in brown leather loafers. He looked to the entire world a simple older man. He couldn't have been over the age of 50.
"The diver has told me to waken you, this is the halfway point he says."
"Thank you Sir," said Toph, she remembered her manners with an elder it was the one of the only lessons that stuck, "If you will excuse me." Toph grabbed her back-pack and checked its contents discreetly before moving past the older man who made room for her to pass first, 'I see so he was brought up with 'ladies first' not many of those around'.
Toph stepped off the bus and settles her bag on her shoulder and set down her skateboard, sighing she looked to the sky trying to figure out the time.
"It is around four o'clock young Miss." Said the older man who had stepped off the bus as well, "The next bus won't be here for another few more hours."
"Thank you . . ." Toph made a move to go find the closest Micky D's for a quick chomp, but she felt and wrinkled but otherwise strong hand on her arm.
"Please excuse me but you seem too young to be travelling by yourself."
"I'm not so young!"
"How old are you Miss?"
"Fourteen." She murmured.
"You are only a few years younger than my nephew."
"I'm sorry but I must be going."
"It seems as if you don't know this town very well. A girl of your stature and age won't last very long by themselves."
"I can take care of myself!" Toph walked away from the older man and attempted to locate the closest McDonalds. She shivered and felt as though eyes were following her, she turned and saw a few young men who looked to be in their early twenties loitering outside of a drug store. Toph shrugged and kept waking, but she could hear their footsteps behind her, she quickened her pace.
Toph began to run full out sprinting then she heard them sprinting right behind her. Toph turned holding her skateboard like a bat and knocked the closest male with board knocking him out. She sidestepped the punch that came her way and she kicked the man's 'treasure' causing him to squeak and whimper holding his crotch moaning. She glared and looked for the third and fourth man.
She heard a yell and spun around the catch a wooden plank on her hipbone she yelped and dodged his next swing. Falling flat on the ground to avoid a beheading she grabbed a few pebble in her right hand and flung them at her pursuer. He laughed, by now she had been driven into an alley.
"Is that all you got little girl? Just hand over any money you have. Maybe you can get on your knees and open that pretty little mouth of yours—UFF!" the attacked was knocked back into he wall clutching the back of his neck and a leg shed in brown polyester cracked up and knocked the younger man chin casing him to fall into the wall.
The one-eye blinded girl looked up to see the older man from the Bus Station fixing his pants and suit jacket before he offered her his hand to be lofted up.
Surprising herself, she allowed herself to take it.
"Thank-you." Said Toph.
"You seemed to have it under your control mostly . . . Miss Bei-Fong." The older man dusted himself off and exited the alley with a bewildered Toph at his side, he leaned down and lifted the skateboard and checked it for any damages before handing it to her.
"Bei-Fong? I didn't know the Bei-Fong family had children." Toph tried to play it off as a misunderstanding.
"Please I may be older but I am quick. I was a Lieutenant in the Vietnam War you know. I have to be quick on my feet."
"Is that where you learned those fighting moves?"
"Yes but talking here on the street is quite silly. Please there is a nice little café right around the corner. We can talk more there."
"Yes I suppose but what is your name?"
"Iroh. Lieutenant Iroh Pryo of the third Western Branch. At your service."
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