-01- Open

[tophbeifong]

The only indication Toph had of her small, stuffy prison finally breaking open was the rush of cold, fresh air that surged in around her. Oh, thank the badgermoles, she thought as she carefully moved out of the sarcophagus and onto hard, cold flooring.

The annoyed, pained grimace fell from her face as her worst fears were confirmed- she couldn't see. Her bending was gone! But how?! What happened?! Where was she?!

All she could remember was finishing up her bedtime tea and relaxing in her room to the sound of the old general playing his-

Her thoughts stopped dead.

"Uncle? Uncle!" Nothing but her own echoes. She tried not to panic- maybe he was outside? But where was outside? Forget that, where was she? This wasn't the tea shop! It didn't smell like it. It didn't sound like it. It didn't even feel like it. Had she slept through being attacked and captured? "Sokka? Aang? Katara? ... anyone?"

No answers. She felt exposed and frightened. How many years had it been since she was this alone, this disconnected from the earth and her friends? Not without incident, she made her way to the wall, limping now, as she tried to find a way out. A door? Window? Anything?

Maybe she'd only traveled a few feet, one wall, or even an entire room. She couldn't tell through the pain in both her head and her knee. The bewildering silence and humbling lack of bending didn't improve matters. The instant she found a nice corner, she sat, back pressed firmly against the wall, feet and hands flat against the floor. If nothing else, she could wait it out, see if something happened.

[Ooc: I do not believe Toph has a tag yet, but the instant she gets one, I'll come in and fix it. ^^; ]

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[schrodingersghost]

"Danny Fenton. I just woke up here myself." He was still annoyed about that. Seriously, how many times was he going to get kidnapped like this?

[tophbeifong]

"Oh yeah?" She scoffed, relaxing into a cross-legged position. "And just where is here?"

She didn't feel too uncomfortable with him in front if her. He didn't sound like much if a threat... A really puny non-threat, actually.

"Are we still in Ba Sing Se?"

It felt safe to ask him. If she was captured, it was unlikely he was the captor.

[schrodingersghost]

"Some kind of creepy abandoned castle." He hesitates, shifting his feet nervously. "What's Ba Sing Se?"

[tophbeifong]

Okay, with questions like that, maybe he was involved in whatever was going on... Or maybe he just lived under a rock. Raised by wolfdeer or something.

"... Okay, is this more crazy Avatar magic?" She'd never been a victim, but Sokka had stories.

"And what happened to the bending?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Ava-what? Is that some new ghost?" Danny was lost. "I don't know? This place looks pretty straight to me."

[tophbeifong]

"Ghosts?" She turned her head in his direction, an eyebrow cocked.

"You mean guardian spirits, right?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Um, no? I'm pretty sure I mean ghosts." What the heck was a guardian spirit?

[tophbeifong]

This was getting irritating. She couldn't tell if he was being serious or pulling her leg. Sure, she was good at telling intentions and honesty through voice alone usually, but she honestly wanted her senses to detect his vitals.

"... so we're not in Ba Sing Se..." She hunched over to lean her elbows on her knees.

[schrodingersghost]

"Unless it looks like a creepy castle I'm going to have to go with a no." And since he didn't see anything glowing he was guessing that this wasn't in the ghost zone. The lack of Packers memorabilia meant this probably wasn't Vlad's castle either.

[tophbeifong]

"I wouldn't know either way," she commented idly. She relaxed out her legs and thought about standing, but her head decided that wasn't going to fly. Instead, she simply leaned her head back against the cool stone of the wall behind her.

"You said you just woke up? Was it in a box, too?" The last time she'd been in an entrapment like that, it was first when she met Aang, and then when she fell into the trap in Ba Sing Se.

"Be honest with me... and don't lie, because I can tell!" At the moment, she couldn't, but he didn't have to know that. "Does Lao Bei Fong have anything to do with this? What about Yu? Xin Fu?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Yeah. It was kind of creepy, right?" And that was coming from a guy who spent half his time as a ghost.

He blinks. "Never heard of them,. But sounds kind of chinese."

[tophbeifong]

... Well, clearly, she was no where near the tea shop. Probably not even her own plane of existence. It sounded weird, she admitted, but she'd heard of worse. Sokka abducted by a giant spirit panda? This didn't even touch that.

"So what do you know about this place?"

[schrodingersghost]

"Whoever designed it was a fruitloop." Danny was sure of that just from his brief explorations. "And I'm pretty sure I'm not in Amity Park anymore."

[tophbeifong]

Amity Park? Just how far from home was she?

"... I already don't like this place."

So far from the tea shop, away from her friends... And with the lack of bending... Thinking about all of that didn't help her headache. She held the side of her head with a hand.