The fire war renaissance

Chapter 3: The field trip part one

Sorry if the story really doesn't have a big plot right now but I'm focusing it on interaction and relationship building before other things get in the way, because that's just how it would work right? Plus this being a continuation story and all there really won't be much of those big story dominating plots but more little, scattered ones.

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Chapter three: The Field Trip—Part One

"You have a message Master Toph." A maid commented one morning that Toph was enjoying her breakfast. Her, Zuko, and Aang where the only ones up at the time. Aang smiled at the maid referring to Toph as Master—not that he was denying she was one—her title was originally Lady Toph but she insisted on them calling her Master.

Toph just handed it on over to the next person which happened to be Aang, but he passed it to Zuko when his coughs returned. Aang had been sick for at least a week but was getting better, he managed to finally get up before Katara did and have breakfast out of bed that morning.

"What does it say?" Toph asked, sounding a little excited but masked it well enough.

"It's from your parents." Zuko stated, letting the paper fall from in front of him slightly to look at the blind girl. She, oddly, didn't look surprised, as if she already knew somehow.

"I don't want to hear it then," Toph snipped and Aang stopped eating.

"Toph," he breathed but she just stood and left the room, not bothering to clear her part of the table.

"Okay what's the story with Toph and her parents, I know things are rough between them but I was never informed with the whole story.

"Well, she ran away from them to come with us against her parents blessings to make a long story short." Aang shared, sipping his grape fruit juice.

"Well, I knew that she kept blabbing on and on about how her parents never gave her love or approval when we were looking for you on Ember Island but why doesn't she at least want to talk to them?" He threw his arms up, just a little excited to learn more about this mysterious blind girl.

"Toph's relationship with her parents is a little questionable and still on uneven grounds. She sent a letter to them when we were still routing around in the Fire Nation but they never returned it nor did they show up after the war was over so I guess she thought they didn't want to talk about it."

"But that may not be the case," Zuko added, looking over in the direction Toph walked away in. He silently wondered if she was listening since her hearing was so acute.

"Look, Zuko, telling Toph to believe something she doesn't think is true is like telling someone not to breath, she only believes herself on the grounds of her parents." Zuko smiled at his metaphoric explanations, remembering when he had referred to him as "Guru goodie goodie".