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Toph's POV

I've been feeling a change in the pressure of the air in the swamp, it felt like a nasty storm was coming but at the same time, everything seemed calm.

Sensory overload much?

"Does the swamp seem…different to you somehow?" Aang's voice cut into my concentration as I cracked my unknown species of nuts that served as my breakfast, on my rock table with my rock mallet.

Crack! The loud sound was a welcome one to my ears, but apparently not to Puffball since he jumped at the sound. The pansy. I dropped my mallet and with my mouth filled with unflavored nuts, I answered.

"It seems a bit…quiet doesn't it? And if feels like a storm's coming."

How does he stand eating this? Where's the meat? Oh Spirits, I can't believe I just quoted Ponytail A.K.A. Sokka.

Twinkles seemed surprised, "How can you tell?"

These nuts have absolutely no flavor at all. Note to self: don't ever become a vegetarian…ever. I swallowed the repulsive and pitiful excuse for a meal while making a mental note to kill Twinkles for making me eat this.

"Heightened senses, Twinkles. Heightened senses."

I didn't really want to get into the fact that I could actually feel the pressure in the air around me, which is what made it clear to me that Sweetness and Princess were having a little fling in our travel days. The air would just be filled with some kind of tension when the two of them were in the same room or just in the presence of one another. It honestly made me want to barf when that happened. The tension would just build and build until one of them walked away, and then the other would follow not long after.

Not a nice way to find out that your crush is not into you, but your firebending master. Poor, Twinkles. I actually wondered how he could stand to be in the Palace when he called for me to come with him on this trip. Sweetness greeted him happily, the oblivious nut. Princess was a bit more reserved and I could tell he was wishing that the tension that he felt would ease. But Twinkles, as jolly as ever, just waltzed in there and was so giddy about the situation. I honestly wondered how he did it.

"When can we get out of here? Don't you and Appa have like some sort of Avatar-y connection thingy? Just feel him out or something." I remembered one of the many – and I mean, many – stories that he told me about his days in the swamp.

"For that to actually work I need to go to the center of the swamp and it looks like we're days away from it."

Ugh! "Well, isn't that just wonderful," my voice marked with my usual sarcasm.

I was about to lie my head down for a little nap but when my head touched the ground I shot back up. I could feel all the small pebbles around me shudder and vibrate on the ground. Something was coming, something big. It was only then that I felt the pressure in the air. It was heavy and filled with dread but also…something else that I couldn't place. High expectations? Nervousness? Confidence? Impatience? I knew that this couldn't be coming from Twinkle Toes, but since I didn't know what it was, I asked him about it.

"Do you feel that?" I asked as I put my hand on the ground for a better reading.

Most people think I only see with my feet, but my hands are good eyes too. And a lot more effective since they're closer to my brain and I can process the vibrations a lot earlier than with my feet. But wouldn't it be a drag to walk around on my hands? Yes, yes it would. So I'll stick with my feet for now.

Airhead was digging in his bag for something but when I asked him that he dropped the bag like it was on fire. I could feel his heartbeat pick up from the vibrations that were radiating off of him and into the ground.

I was speculating as to why his heart was the way it was when I heard the most beautiful sound I have ever heard in my life. But where did it come from?

"Did you say something, Twinkles?"

"What-no, I didn't. Why? Did you hear something?" he said quickly, as if something was making him nervous.

I stood up and turned my blind gaze to what I thought to be the direction of the swamp.

"It's like…voices. Whispering in the wind and swirling or mixing with the water," I whispered to myself because I thought that I spoke in my normal tone of voice that the wonderful and intoxicating voices would cease to exist. "It's so…beautiful." That was as best as I could describe it to him since he didn't hear it.

My legs seemed to push forward on their own accord. Not that I minded, I wanted to hear more of the voices. It seemed like they were calling me. Calling me to come join them. To be with them. To trust them. They were going to show me something. Something wonderful.

"Toph?" asked a voice that distracted me from the others.

"Yes, Aang," I breathed. I was going to yell at him for distracting me but the voices calmed me down to about the point where my limbs were doughy and soft. And I didn't feel like yelling anymore.

A hand grabbed my doughy arm and tried to pull me back but it was like I could barely feel it. The hand was nothing more than a feather rubbing softly against my skin.

"Toph, wake up." I heard something say in my ear. But to me it was more muffled like the voice was covered up, not wanting to reach my sensitive ears. I took another step and there was an obstacle in my way, so I walked around it. My limbs were so relaxed that I couldn't bare the thought of disturbing the sensations with silly earthbending.

The winds picked up around me and were caressing me with their soft touch. I entered the murky waters and surprisingly, the water was warm. Like it was heated just for me. I continued walking as the feeling of being weightless continued. I couldn't really see in the muddy water but it was enough so that I could tell that I was about to come to a drop off, but I didn't care. I was weightless.

I screamed.

Or was I? I fell and I could feel the thick, ice water pour around me. I heard the roar of the winds that were rough against my skin. I was heavy, I wasn't weightless. What was I thinking?

I kicked with all my might but the water seemed to be pulling me down into its mighty depths. The currents were too strong and since I couldn't see anything I didn't know whether I was going up or down. Water rushed over me and I got in one last wave to Twinkles so he could see where I was before I sank.

The voices in the water were loud and angry. Why had I listened to them? They were screaming at me, they were telling me that I was going to die. They were telling me that I was a worthless wimp and that I only had about twenty more seconds until death was near. They were telling me that I was just a blind girl, nothing special, nothing there. They said I was ugly, that I wasn't just ugly. I was so ugly that I was an entirely different species. How I desperately wished I were on land.

I could feel my lungs just shrieking for a breath of air. My body was at war with my mind as it tried to calm down. I felt something brush against my leg and, even though I knew I was underwater, I couldn't help but scream.

The much needed air was replaced with unwanted nasty water. I closed my mouth and tried to expunge the water but I didn't know how. I could feel my head about to explode and my nose was burning but I couldn't do anything about it. I was drowning.

Just when I thought I was going to lose consciousness, I felt something pull me upwards, first by my hand and then by my underarms.

When I broke through the surface I began violently sucking up lungfulls of air while choking on the water that was coming up my throat and out my mouth and nose.

"Toph, are you okay?" Twinkles yelled in my ear over the roar of the winds and the rush of water.

My mouth was still violently expunging water from my lungs so I could only nod. I didn't know if I was okay but I guess not being dead counted as okay. Right?

"Hold on!" Twinkles instructed as he swung me onto his back and began swimming.

With each stroke he took my hands loosened from their grip on his neck. I tried to hold on but my hands were slippery and it felt like something was pulling me. Not something, it felt like the water was wrapping itself around my legs and pulling me back.

"Toph, I said to hold on!" He yelled, clearly annoyed that I wasn't doing what he instructed.

I tried to scream back but all I could manage was a high-pitched hoarse reply.

"Something's pulling me. Aang, help!"

He suddenly turned around and hugged my to his muscular chest that I could feel since the shirt he put on in the morning was soaked through with water. I wrapped my arms around his neck and while burying my face in his chest I pried my legs free from the constricting water and swung them around his waist in fear of falling back into the deep, deep waters where I may never come up again.

The whispering voices mixed with the violent ones as I felt myself spin with Aang in what felt like a straw, sucking us in. The voices were loud in my ear and I tried to drown out the voices but it seemed like they were the only things that made up the atmosphere. There was no oxygen, or water, just voices. An endless supply of voices.

I was so scared but I was glad I had Aang to hold on to as the sensation of my body molecules were separating and falling became greater and greater until I felt like I was about to explode.

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A/N: Yay! Toph's POV!

Did ya'll count how many times she actually used his real name?

Omg, this was so hard to write, because all I had to work with were vibrations and feelings. But it was also fun to write.

I'm going to try and post like every other day. But I'm going to try and post the next chapter tomorrow, I'm almost done, just a bit more to go.

Love: Lola of the Peaches