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Typical. Simply typical. Of all the places to make camp in the entire Earth Kingdom, we had to pick a marsh. The mush and the mud under my feet were as good as air or water; I couldn't see a god damned thing. Typical. Simply typical. Of all the places to make camp in the Earth Kingdom, we had to pick a marsh. The mush and the mud under my feet were as good as air or water; I couldn't see a god damned thing.
And even more less shocking, Sokka, Aang, and Katara started to walk away without me. I heard their whispers get farther way, but I couldn't see where they were going, nor could I call out to have them come back for me.
After a while, I stood in silence. Annoying prickly things tickled my chest and arms; I grabbed blindly at them. I caught onto a strand, feeling it until I realized I was nearly chest high in grass. So basically, I was almost invisible to anyone looking at me, I was actually blind, and surrounded by annoying pieces of green. I'd never be found or missed. Nighttime in the tall grasses. Unable to talk or see. Great.
There was nothing else I could do. I would have to try to walk.
It came, one step after another. If I felt my foot go into a lake, I'd quickly change my route – I didn't feel like drowning tonight. I could almost feel the moon glare at me as I made my way through the thicket, getting more and more frustrated. The farther I went, the higher the grass got until eventually the only thing visible was the top of my head.
"Argh!" I gave a frustrated cry –breaking my vow (but only a little) for the second time – and sat down in the mud. I could feel it suction onto me; how I hate mud sometimes. Using what little strength and sight I had left, I attempted to turn the mud into a hard platform. I succeeded only it making the ground beneath me spin until it was hard and all the grass around me to be uprooted.
Good enough.
So I sat, in the darkness. In the silence.
Sokka watched the moon as he traveled silently through the marshy grounds. The boy walked near the edge of the water, looking for Toph in case she had stepped in the water and…
He shook the thought and images from his head, shuddering as he did so. Although the water warrior had concluded that his petite friend probably couldn't feel her way in the wet marsh, he knew Toph was smart enough to not end up at the bottom of the lake. Sokka did not' want to think about what he would do if Toph had gotten into any really danger.
It would be the third girl I have failed at protecting the thought slid stealthily into his mind. Sokka shuddered, realizing that he had been protecting the earth bender almost subconsciously. It was the little things he did, like sit next to her on Appa to make sure nothing would happen, or keep her away from the water when possible. The boy sighed, noting how protective he truly was over his small friend. Just like he was in protecting Yue, and then Suki. It was almost as if…
As if…
Sokka's foot got stuck in a specifically tricky patch of mud, ripping him from his concentration. The boy cursed the gods of earth and water for mixing, pulling his foot out of the mud with a cry. His cry seemed to echo…and become a higher pitch. Sokka's heart skipped a beat when he acknowledged the second cry he heard as Toph's.
He scanned his eye over the grasses, now chest high on him, for any movement – she had to be close. The wind seemed to stop blowing and the moon to grow brighter. Sokka turned his attention to the moon, recognizing how bright it seemed to be…as if lighting his way.
"Thank you Yue," he whispered, walking cautiously forward, trying to find the friend he knew was so close, hiding in the tall grasses.
The bugs hummed in my ears as I started to doze off. I could feel the spring winds rustle through the plain. I could have been mad at the world for putting me in this position. I could have been upset with the spirits for making me blind. I could have been angry with my friends for everything they have done to me.
But for some reason, the silence was so peaceful.
By now, Sokka was desperate. More than anything, he wanted to find Toph to make sure she was ok, to talk to her, to have her back. He was not even sure why he wanted all this, but since when did Sokka take time to actually think about his actions or emotions? Using his boomerang, he hacked away at the tall grasses, knowing it was probably dangerous, but he used it as a means of faster searching nonetheless.
The water warrior sighed, hacking a chunk of the meadow away without much conviction. "Toph where are you?" he asked to himself, "I'm worried about you. Please come back, I'll go crazy by myself with Aang and Katara," the boy rambled recklessly. "And who else is going to be my flying partner on Appa and make fun of Aang with me? Who else will put up with your sarcasm or throw you the best thirteenth birthday ever? I need you to come back Toph, please."
I thought I heard Snoozles talking in my dreams. Something about needing me, but I was still half asleep, so I don't know if it was a figure of my imagination or not. Regardless, I turned redder than the fire nation flag.
I snapped my eyes open, startled at a whacking sound I heard above me. I looked up just in time to feel a sharp object slice the air on top of my head. I heard the double slice, noting that it was a boomerang that almost cut my head off…
Wait…a boomerang! Sokka!
I jumped up, surprising the boy – but then again, he surprised me more. He almost dropped his boomerang, but instead, over reacted and sent it flying across the moor, only to have it come back and land lightly by his feet. We stood in dark and it was then I realized that everything I heard while I was half asleep…Sokka had actually said.
Good thing it was dark, or my face would have lit up the sky.