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[tophbeifong]

Scraaaaaape. Scraaaaaaaaaaaape. Scraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaape.

Ker-KLUNK Ker-KLUNK Ker-KLUNK

...

Scraaaaaaaaape...

If one were to follow the sound, they'd find a small girl working her hardest at pulling a large lump of metal- probably twice her size or more- down the hall, towards her room in the living area.

Although it was obvious it took some effort for her to move it, it seemed as if it wasn't taking too much out of her and she was getting some distance with it.

Soon, though, she determined that it was break time, and relaxed her hold on the chunk. She leaned against it and panted, wiping sweat from her forehead.

Geeze. How much farther until she got to her room?

[Ooc: Toph's still willing to make weapons if anyone wants any! :D]

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[last_lombax]

"Do you need any help?" There is a familiar voice coming not far form Toph. The blind girl will easily be able to tell it is Ratchet through today something is different about him. He has something strapped to his back, something large. A staff of some kind, made of metal and other bits. It certainly is new.

[tophbeifong]

She blinked in surprise and raised her head.

"Oh, hey, Ratchet," she greeted before climbing her way up her chunk to sit on it and face him.

"Thanks for the offer but I don't think you could do much."

She flexed and rubbed her arms, working the tension out of them while she rested.

"You seem like you're in a better mood. Have something new there?" she asked, cracking her back. She'd heard something on him moving that she hadn't heard last time she'd been around him.

[last_lombax]

Ratchet chuckled and flexed his own muscles. "I'm stronger than I look, you know. I used to carry around a rocket launcher that was bigger than I am." He walked closer to Toph and looked the metal over. The question about his weapon brought a more neutral look to his face.

"It's a new wrench. A Praetorian OmniWrench. It's bigger than mine and can launch energy blasts out of it."

[tophbeifong]

A what launcher? She cocked an eyebrow at him, but otherwise dismissed it. More technology, she bet.

"There isn't much that's NOT bigger than you, Fuzz Face," she smirked. She dangled her feet while she listened to him move. "But this is a solid chunk of metal. It's bigger than you and me combined. I'll get it back to the room, no problem. I'm just taking a break right now."

The name of the new toy threw her for a loop and she actually paused to shake her head.

"A Praeto-whozit what now? It can what?"

[last_lombax]

"Words are boring. Want me to show you?" He smirked as he took the wrench off of his back and activated it, blue energy sparking at both ends of the weapon.

[tophbeifong]

... sometimes, Toph wondered if the Lombax even knew she was blind. He always wanted to show her things that she couldn't "see"- first his hover boots, and now this ... thing?

She could sense it in his hands, and hear it sparking, but all in all, it was just a fancy rod for all she knew.

It bored her. Still, she'd humor him.

"Ah, that's awesome, Ratchet! That's posiTIVEly the coolest thing I've ever seen! Even cooler than your boots!"

[last_lombax]

Ratchet sighed and deactivated the wrench. "I get it. You're bored. So what kind of things do you do for fun?"

[herotherhalf]

She passed him as he sat at the table, clear of the sunrays that were being cast down on the table near him. He'd been watching it, careful not to sit in it's path for a while. He caught her walking by, making no move to change what he was doing or do anything suspicious.

He was curious about her, another oddity of this place that he had some interest in. The word bending was thrown around quite a bit with her. So he just sat there, watching her with a look of partial interest.

[tophbeifong]

Toph didn't notice the vampire until the burn of eyes on her caught her attention. She glared at the metal and muttered something about the castle being creepy. She didn't think anything more of it and continued on. She stopped and took in a light gasp when she the shockwaves from moving the metal revealed him sitting there. Weird.

"... Hi?" She greeted tentatively.

[herotherhalf]

"Hi." Harth replied, tapping his fingers against the tone table in a rhythm.

He looked at the load of metal, then to the little girl. "Need some help?"

[tophbeifong]

Huh. Weird. She cocked an eyebrow at him for a second before shrugging it off and walking over to sit closer to him. If she was going to sit around, might as well be with someone else, right?

"Nah," she closed her eyes as she pulled out a chair and dropped into it, slouching comfortably but in an inversely proportionate unladylike manner.

"I can do it. I just need a break."

She observed him for a short while. No pulse, no breathing... at least none that she could detect through the stone table and the floor. How... odd...

"... so where are you from?"

[herotherhalf]

Right. Well, in theory. It wasn't as though lurks counted as 'someone' now did they? He regarded her quietly when she sat across from him, smelling the coat of dirt on her skin and noting her unmoving eyes. She was blind, yet she could see him.

"I'm from Haddyn." He replied, resuming the rap tap tap of his fingers against the table.

"I doubt you've heard of it."

[tophbeifong]

"I haven't," she agreed. "There's a lot of places I haven't heard of around here. Just like I doubt you've heard of Gaoling."

Idle chatter wasn't exactly her strong point.

She let out a silent sigh and sat there, relaxing in the shade. She made a face at his tapping.

"Nervous there?"

[foolnornovice]

The sounds are vibrant, easily identified. That might by why he's curious and approaching. When he turns the corner, he finds a small girl against the source of the sounds.

Her doing, likely. How and why however, it is still a mystery. "What are you doing?"

[tophbeifong]

The voice catches her attention and she raises her head to hear him better.

"Moving an iron boulder. What's it look like?"

She takes a deep breath and continues onward. Clearly, she's moving a load that's a little heavy for her and her muscles strain to finish the job, but she's making slow, steady progress and dragging it perhaps a few feet at a time.

[foolnornovice]

"Why?" He's following alongside her and the boulder at this point, footsteps slow. The sound as it drags along the surface is enough to grate the nerves but for now he lets it, stays curious, confused.

"Would you accept assistance taking it to wherever you were heading?"

[tophbeifong]

"Moving it," she started, grunting with effort. "So that I can use it in the relative safety of my room."

She paused to catch her breath again. "Kinda hard to make things with shadows trying to eat you, y'know?"

His offer of help made her snort. "Sure. Move it, if you can."

[foolnornovice]

The response had him stare at the other - even if it was something he saw as unnatural, the fact that she could move it urged him to give it a try himself. Call it a shadow of the arrogance he may have held, but he wanted to try at least. Reaching a hand out, he settled it on the mass.

"How are you performing this feat in the first place?"

[tophbeifong]

She'd grown bored with constantly explaining her Bending to people. Instead, she'd resolved to just have fun with everyone.

"It's not that hard. It's barely even heavy. I'm just small, so it's a little difficult for me to move, but I'm making progress."

She held a hand out to it and stepped away for him.

Come on. Move the giant iron rock.

Forward dated to after OU!D moves in with AU

[stillshinigami]

Knock knock Toph. He's come a knocking with his machete in hand along with his double's scythe. Gotta work on those weapons while they can now. He stands by the door, and waits.

"Oi! Toph! You in there?"

[tophbeifong]

Toph grumbled and hid her head under her blanket. When it did nothing to quiet the knocking. Oh, well. Not like she was sleeping anyway. She stood from her place ok the floor and moved to the door. She was still dressed for sleep and her hair was a mess, but she opened the door for him anyway.

"... What?"

[stillshinigami]

He smiled at her despite the fact she couldn't see him. Smiled even more when he noticed how very sleepy she looked.

"I wanna get started on weapons. It's almost noon."

[tophbeifong]

"Is it?" She asked, wiping her eye with a fist. "Okay, let's get it over with."

She moved and let him enter before pulling a chair up to her bed. She used it more as a couch than a bed, honestly.

"What do you want done?"

[stillshinigami]

He handed the machete and the scythe to her. "I want another machete like this one, and as for the scythe? I've got a blade design for ya. Gonna attach it to a different type of handle." He leaned back at the table.

"As for the rest of the metal, how many swords do you think we can make?"

[tophbeifong]

"Yeah, sure. Whatever. Just draw it out with me and I'll see what I can do," she told him as she manipulated the sickle, examining her own work for flaws and rough bits.

He'd explained things like the scythe before, and how he'd "kinda sorta indirectly" fought with one. She figured she could make it work.

She set it down and moved on to the machete, throwing a thumb in the direction of the iron lump in the corner of the room.

"I dunno. It depends on what all you want to make. Not everyone can handle swords. Then, if you want armor, we have to take out for that. Sokka might be able to get a forge up and running if we can find one and he can make stronger metal."