200 word drabble: Marking Boundaries
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avatar_500 prompt #65, Air.
Summary: She feels it around her when she walks in its emptiness.
Marking Boundaries
Toph remembered when she was very young, before she met the badger-moles or became the Blind Bandit, sitting in her window and listening to the wind blow through the trees. She remembered hanging her feet out the window, with the ground only a few feet below her, and feeling like it was miles below instead. She remembered the way she used to crawl, or cling to walls when she thought her mother wouldn't catch her, and she remembered feeling like nothing in the world existed except the ground underneath her feet.
Once, after a party, where a bunch of her father's friends had all sat around and talked about the way the moon looked reflected in a pond, someone told her it was a shame she was never going to see the sky.
Aang and Katara told her that when they were on Appa, they were flying through the sky. Aang talked about being in the temples, high up in the mountains that touched the sky, but Toph had been in the temples. They didn't feel any different. They all talked about the sky and how far away it was, and only Toph remembered that they all touched it, always.
avatar_500 prompt #65, Air.Summary: She feels it around her when she walks in its emptiness.
Marking Boundaries
Toph remembered when she was very young, before she met the badger-moles or became the Blind Bandit, sitting in her window and listening to the wind blow through the trees. She remembered hanging her feet out the window, with the ground only a few feet below her, and feeling like it was miles below instead. She remembered the way she used to crawl, or cling to walls when she thought her mother wouldn't catch her, and she remembered feeling like nothing in the world existed except the ground underneath her feet.
Once, after a party, where a bunch of her father's friends had all sat around and talked about the way the moon looked reflected in a pond, someone told her it was a shame she was never going to see the sky.
Aang and Katara told her that when they were on Appa, they were flying through the sky. Aang talked about being in the temples, high up in the mountains that touched the sky, but Toph had been in the temples. They didn't feel any different. They all talked about the sky and how far away it was, and only Toph remembered that they all touched it, always.
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Date: 2012-11-20 02:22 pm (UTC)This also reminded me of Touch the Sky (http://archiveofourown.org/works/347198) by
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Date: 2012-11-20 02:35 pm (UTC)I remember that one! I always got the feeling that there were times Aang wished he could turn the tables on Toph and make her learn Airbending.
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Date: 2012-11-20 02:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-20 03:12 pm (UTC)