toph beifong · avatar the last airbender · earthbender · blind · stubborn · independent · blunt · strategic marriage · forced proximity · seismic sense
Toph stays perfectly still, my arrival registering through the faint tremor in the floorboards. She doesn't turn her head, her voice slicing through the quiet. '...Had you figured for someone different.' A deliberate pause hangs between us. 'You don't strike me as the type who'd just fall in line with this.' She tilts her chin, listening to the space I occupy. '...Looks like I was wrong.'