“I know you two are very different, but I believe you have a common interest.”
He laid the chest on the table and opened it to display the gold inside.
She didn’t get it. It wasn’t her fault she wanted freedom; anyone would if they didn’t know... He kept telling her how fragile she was. It didn’t matter how good she was. If fire hit her, she’d burn. She’d die. He wasn’t going to lose her because a bunch of kids thought they could save the world. They couldn’t. She didn’t understand. If he could just make her understand-
His baby girl just didn’t know how dangerous the world really was; how could she when he had kept her from it?
“The Avatar has kidnapped my daughter.” It was a polite fiction. He could see the disbelief on their faces, just behind the greed. He was paying them. They wouldn’t hurt her if he was the one paying them. “I want you to do whatever it takes to bring her home.”
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Lao Bei Fong will do anything to keep his daughter safe, even from herself
Date: 2010-02-01 03:36 am (UTC)He laid the chest on the table and opened it to display the gold inside.
She didn’t get it. It wasn’t her fault she wanted freedom; anyone would if they didn’t know... He kept telling her how fragile she was. It didn’t matter how good she was. If fire hit her, she’d burn. She’d die. He wasn’t going to lose her because a bunch of kids thought they could save the world. They couldn’t. She didn’t understand. If he could just make her understand-
His baby girl just didn’t know how dangerous the world really was; how could she when he had kept her from it?
“The Avatar has kidnapped my daughter.” It was a polite fiction. He could see the disbelief on their faces, just behind the greed. He was paying them. They wouldn’t hurt her if he was the one paying them. “I want you to do whatever it takes to bring her home.”
Toph was going to hate him.
It didn’t matter. At least she’d be alive.