The fire war renaissance

Chapter 40: What you don't want to hear, part three

Hello there everyone! I'm just going to share some quick news about the progress I'm making with the story just for anyone who wants to know.

Right now I have a basic plan of the story finished, and I have concluded that there will be 7 parts to the story. As for how many chapters, I haven't planned out all the chapters, so that's still pending. And relating to the prequel I promised you all, no I haven't forgotten, but it's turning out to be a lot longer than I thought, so I'll pick a later date for that to be posted, probably sometime in December.

So, for now, there are three parts left to the story and this part has a few chapters left.

Geez, we're already on chapter 40!

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Chapter Forty: What You Don't Want to Hear, Part 3

Yuexi's hand seemed exceptionally warm that night.

The last of the winter's chill was gone from all of Ba Sing Si and spring warming breezes were coming through even at night. It was a nice change of pace due to the busy winter all of them had, to just have a nice date with the ones they loved with lovely warm weather as a compliment.

Toph just leaned further next to Yuexi as the group walked down the newly formed sidewalks. They were crowded with people in the early nighttime and it made Toph a little jittery, when a lot of people were around. It was worse than being on sand, and it was beginning to give her a bit of a head ache. She remembered being in the Black Jade when they first got down there and feeling all the people milling about.

Another reason Toph hated the city.

And Yuexi seemed to sense this, because she felt his head turn down to look at her and she could almost feel his eyes looking down at her.

"What?" Toph asked. Her voice seeming even smaller with all the other noises of people, trains, and automobiles about the streets. The street lamps helped to illuminate Yuexi's view of Toph's face and he could see the uncomfortable look on her face.

"Well I know being around a lot of people bothers you, are you okay?" Yuexi asked as well, she could hear that he was genuinely concerned, the body heat that she could feel just by holding his hand spoke for itself. Yuexi always got warmer when he was all worked up for one reason or another.

Toph couldn't help but feel a little odd as all the thoughts were running through her head. She knew that most relationships often had their own means of communicating without words. She often heard Katara blabbering about how she always knew what Aang was thinking just by the look in his eye, but Toph knew that no one else had the kind of bond her and Yuexi had. They didn't have the luxury of just simply looking in each other's eyes and reading their jittering pupils. She had to "look" deeper into him to really understand.