tushanshu_logs | May catch-all

Characters: Open to all!
Date: May
Location: Keelai
Warnings/Rating: N/A -- will change if necessary. Shenanigans?

A. OTA - No matter the day, even if it's raining, Toph can likely be found somewhere on the Turtle, training in one of the disciplines: earthbending, metalbending, sandbending, or blind combat. Interruptions or onlookers are not a problem; she's more than happy to have an audience -- and will even have the tendency to show off if she discovers someone watching.

B. OTA - During her previous visit to the Turtle, the kedan gang activity was of interest to Toph -- something to keep at least a halfway decent idea of during her tenure, if only for her own interests. The new Keelai is different, though . . . and something that needs to be re-explored and understood, especially in light of people running around stealing soul gems. Feel free to run into Toph at nearly any hour (even wee hours of the morning) in some of the more dangerous sections of the city, poking around and possibly getting herself into shenanigans. (Hey, I did promise shenanigans up above.)

C. Closed to Katara - The shopping had been Katara's idea. It certainly hadn't been Toph's -- would never have been Toph's, who didn't put nearly as much stock in her appearance, and for whom window shopping was a meaningless term.

But even so, Katara had gotten her out with only a minor amount of whining and sarcasm. Partly this might have been because they really hadn't spent much time together outside of Toph's re-arrival, and though fractious as the two could be sometimes, Katara was still family -- something Toph had had precious little of in previous months. Connection was still something Toph craved, even if shopping wasn't the most ideal of circumstances. Additionally, there were still things she wanted to understand -- still holes in her piecing together of the last couple of years.

So Toph went shopping, contenting herself with drifting her hands across fabrics for the varying textures, doing her best to resist any goads into trying something new (not always winning), and getting in wisecracks when she could.

Maybe Katara had taken pity on her, because the next suggestion the older girl made was far more appealing:

Mud.

With the influx of spring rains, some enterprising kedan had set up their own miniature day spa, inviting all to enjoy a mud bath with mud "carted from the far side of the turtle, in a location left pristine and untouched."

That might have been true, or it might have been hogwash (literally), but mud was mud as far as Toph was concerned, and you couldn't go wrong with a good wallowing. So it was with great aplomb that Toph squished into the mud pool -- a large, open bath of it occupied only by a couple of other kedan on the far side. The muck squished upward between her toes, prompting a full-fledged grin.

D. Closed to Mike - Just because she'd agreed to this didn't mean she was happy about it.

In fact, one could probably count Toph as full-blown wary as she made her way to the alleyway that had been described.

. . . After all, the request had come from the one turtle ninja she had beef with.

She wasn't looking forward to the meeting with Mike, but the request also wasn't one she could easily refuse -- a request to help find Leonardo's sword . . . a sword that had disappeared during the year that everyone apparently had gotten stuck in the Dreaming, commandeered by the kedan in their game of "finders-keepers." She owed Leo this, as far as she was concerned; the sword belonged in the hands of people who knew him, not some priss-nosed little kedan with a stick up his butt.

For that reason, Toph had agreed to circumvent her misgivings and meet Mike in the alley. Arms sliding into a cross, she leaned up against the stone of the nearby wall. Waiting.

E. Closed to Jackie - "Heads up!" The voice came as a snap not far from Jackie's elbow as its owner barreled past -- near enough to brush Jackie's clothing on the way by. The owner, from the glimpse he might catch, was a tiny girl with a mass of thick, dark hair, bare feet nearly soundless on the earth in spite of her speed. "Move it."

Just barely avoiding Jackie, she sprinted off towards the alley on the opposite side of the street, heading towards its shadows.

Jackie might have avoided collision once, but he or anyone with him might not be so lucky with what came after her. With little more than a breath, two kedan tore after her, so intent on their prize that they couldn't quite manage the tight twist it took to avoid, heading for impact.

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Iroh didn't need to be showed off to. He respected Toph's skill, but he also knew that it was important to her to not just be competent but for everyone to know she was. So, he was waiting, with a basket of snacks and some tea, for her to take a break.

The bending is what catches China's attention, mostly because there's no reasonable equivalent in her world. Earth doesn't do that, for the most part. Most elementals have two options with earth: stone, and not stone. This is a bit of an anomaly. She's heard of the benders, of course, there's a few of them, but this is the first time she's had cause to see one in action.

So she stops to watch the girl, not bothering to hide her interest though she stays out of the way. Her plans for the rest of the day can wait; when the girl stops, China has every intention of striking up a conversation.

Jackie's head snapped up, looking around - and then down, as he saw a short girl barrel past him, knocking him a little off balance. He'd been about to let it lie - just someone in a rush - when a couple kedan smacked right into him, knocking him down. He growled, getting back to his feet, and chased after the kedan, and the girl.

"Hey!"

It's late at night, or very early in the morning, and Arno's been blending into the shadows across the city, keeping an eye to things, trying his best to get in good with one of the gangs, preferably the snakes so that he, at least, can have protection while he works out what to do.

He's about to attempt chatting up a Snake woman when he notices someone else, smaller, just a girl really, who seems to have an eye to things. Arno's curiosity gets the better of him as he approaches her. "What are we looking for?" he asks, by way of a greeting as he steps out of the shadows.

So admittedly, Toph wasn't the best shopping buddy Katara could have found. More than once, her suggestions were scoffed at, and opinions were limited. However, she wanted nothing more than to spend time with her friend-- they hadn't had nearly enough time to catch up in the time Toph had been back, especially with everything going on.

When her shopping adventure began to fail--though really, had it even had a chance?-- Katara made the only suggestion she knew would be a sure fire win-- spa day. Toph had seemed to enjoy it the last time they had tried it... and it would give them plenty of time to catch up.

And she had a few questions.

So she watched as her friend joined her in the mud, sinking into the thick gunk. The smile across her face prompted one of her own; this, at least, was normal, or as close to it as they could get.

"There. That's better, right?"

Shenanigans.

Well, it's not like Sokka isn't up to his own shenanigans. In fact, he's up to his own independent shenanigans. And how in the world he and Toph were tracking the same group of people simultaneously without knowing it is pretty crazy. But that's the circumstances involved in this one. Sokka's following up on a lead to some dodgy kedan, thinking that this might help track down the soul gem thieves. And right around the corner is Toph. Except Sokka doesn't know it.

In fact, he thinks it's kedan.

And so with a practical flourish, he jumps out into the open and immediately throws a boomerang into the air. Except it misses Toph by a good measure because she's so short. "Ah ha! Gotch...— ya?"

She's not waiting long before the silent reverberations of the stone wall to her back announce Mike's arrival. Silent to all senses save hers, Mike slides down the wall and lands a Respectful Distance from where she's leaning.

"Um...uh. Hey. How's it going?"
His voice is less nervous than it is awkward, and the smile he's forcing is damn near audible.

He's still not entirely sure what to make of Toph.

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