[There is wealth to be had in the Fire Sector . . . and Toph aims to claim some of it.]
[It's an old game; she's done it before . . . but old fascinations die hard, and the lure of fooling idiots out to fool others is strong. Toph seeks out the darker corners of the yard sale -- places where the kedan bet horded wealth in the hopes to horde even more, gambling at games of dice and shells. There she plays at what others so easily judge her to be: A little girl, tiny and frail and blind (and therefore innocent and gullible), hiding shyly among the crowds of larger kedan to listen to their games.]
[Her timing is right; the kedan are jovial in the wake of Malicant's defeat, so puffed up, confident, and open enough to foreigners that the tiny girl is not considered a threat whatsoever. Laughingly, they invite her to join their dice game, cracking jokes.]
[Blinking and wide-eyed, she kneels, gropes for the dice, tossing off a couple rudimentary questions about how she should even play. She's good at the innocence; they laugh louder, offer to spot her a juulan or two. Cupping the dice in her palm, she rolls. Tosses. The dice spin through the air.]
Open!
[It's an old game; she's done it before . . . but old fascinations die hard, and the lure of fooling idiots out to fool others is strong. Toph seeks out the darker corners of the yard sale -- places where the kedan bet horded wealth in the hopes to horde even more, gambling at games of dice and shells. There she plays at what others so easily judge her to be: A little girl, tiny and frail and blind (and therefore innocent and gullible), hiding shyly among the crowds of larger kedan to listen to their games.]
[Her timing is right; the kedan are jovial in the wake of Malicant's defeat, so puffed up, confident, and open enough to foreigners that the tiny girl is not considered a threat whatsoever. Laughingly, they invite her to join their dice game, cracking jokes.]
[Blinking and wide-eyed, she kneels, gropes for the dice, tossing off a couple rudimentary questions about how she should even play. She's good at the innocence; they laugh louder, offer to spot her a juulan or two. Cupping the dice in her palm, she rolls. Tosses. The dice spin through the air.]