150 word drabble: Keep Talking

[attackfish]

Written for avatar_500 for prompt #2: Doubt.

Summary: Toph's doing great.

Keep Talking

“You’re doing great!” Sokka called to her.  “Just- follow- the- sound- of- my- voice!”

Toph slid across the ice.  There was nothing around her, nothing that she could feel.  she couldn’t feel the ice ahead of her, just trust that it would be there.  It had to be there.  

She couldn’t feel the ice in front of her, but she could feel the ice under her, and how slick it was with water, and how her feet skidded, and how her stomach dropped out of her.  The water lapped against the bridge.  The water was so close.

Out on the ice, her parents were right.  she was tiny, and blind, and helpless and-

Please keep talking, she barely kept herself from screaming.  I don’t care what you say, just pleasepleaseplease Keep talking, keep talking, keeptalking, keeptalkingkeeptalkingkeeptalking KEEP TALKING!

“It’s hard to ignore,” she snapped back instead.

Then the ice broke.

Comments

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I love Toph. I keep worrying I'm going to make her seem, I don't know, less strong than she is?

[beboots.livejournal.com]

Even the fiercest of people have their weak spots.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

And the fact that this fic's all about something that pokes Toph means nothing. NOTHING, I TELL YOU!