[ zuko thinks for a moment, pursing his lips, fingers against his chin. and then, casually: ] She'd hit me with a boulder.
[ it may not be able to help them with the machines, but it's always assisted them in the other things they've done — she's knocked sense into him that way, made him realise his worth with a rock to the head. she'd done so two years ago. his entire body aches at the memory of it. ]
Toph would tell us to leave the machines to her. She'd be able to destroy it or even control it, maybe. Aang would try and distract it with his airbending, and Katara would probably try and make it slip on water. Sokka would tell it a bad joke, and I'd try and melt it. [ to him, they were the perfect team, able to work in sync. he knows if toph were here, she'd call him dumb for writing himself so short, like his firebending wouldn't be able to dismantle a machine as well as her metalbending could. ]
[ his shoulders fall. ] She'd just know how to pull it apart, like she could figure out its insides and stuff. Toph always knew how to bend really small rocks. Kind of like how I know how to bend fire so it doesn't really burn me, I guess. [ when he'd been in the earth kingdom, he'd been so mad that he'd burst into flames himself. ] She'd figure out how it worked. What made it work. What could possibly stop it. How to break it, like shoving a stone in its joints.
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[ it may not be able to help them with the machines, but it's always assisted them in the other things they've done — she's knocked sense into him that way, made him realise his worth with a rock to the head. she'd done so two years ago. his entire body aches at the memory of it. ]
Toph would tell us to leave the machines to her. She'd be able to destroy it or even control it, maybe. Aang would try and distract it with his airbending, and Katara would probably try and make it slip on water. Sokka would tell it a bad joke, and I'd try and melt it. [ to him, they were the perfect team, able to work in sync. he knows if toph were here, she'd call him dumb for writing himself so short, like his firebending wouldn't be able to dismantle a machine as well as her metalbending could. ]
[ his shoulders fall. ] She'd just know how to pull it apart, like she could figure out its insides and stuff. Toph always knew how to bend really small rocks. Kind of like how I know how to bend fire so it doesn't really burn me, I guess. [ when he'd been in the earth kingdom, he'd been so mad that he'd burst into flames himself. ] She'd figure out how it worked. What made it work. What could possibly stop it. How to break it, like shoving a stone in its joints.