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Post by Toph Bei Fong on Mar 11, 2010 8:16:26 GMT -5
In response, Toph kicked stamped on bare foot on the ground, and one of the flat stones that had lined the path suddenly tore itslef from the air, to dash over to her outstretched hand.
"Earthbebding," she explained as she released the stone, and it hovered in the air, held my the invisible lines of her power. "Is a form of marital arts." She fell into her wide fight stance and slid into a simple kata, sliding form one bending form to another, and the rock before her changed shape accordingly. Now it was cube. Next it was a star. Then an arrow head. "One uses their own like force, or chi, and their will to sense, and manipulate the earth, and things that are derived from the earth."
Toph rose to her normal standing height, and the stone also returned to its original shape. With a casual wave of her hand, it flew though the air band back into place. "Its a gift, though. Not everyone can sue their chi to manipulate the elements. No one knows exactly why that is. It can run through the family, but even that's no guarantee. My parents can't earthbend, for example...."
Toph turned to the blindsopt of the gazebo. "Parents. They're the ones who are supposed to teach you what love can be right? Did yours love you?" she asked, a little more hotly than she meant, turning the conversation back on its original path.
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Post by Verbena Nightshade on Mar 13, 2010 18:15:27 GMT -5
|| ♥ || ♥ || &hearts || ♥ || ♥ || ♥ || &hearts || Verbena was fascinated.
A form of martial arts. To her, it looked like the magnificent marriage the body and the spirit, or magic. But such was the vision through untrained eyes, and she was sure that if it had been some form of magic it would have been explained as such. There must have been something else to it. Another curiosity of the world.
She smiled. The world did have many mysteries. She wondered just how many were meant to be solved.
"It looks beautiful to me..." she said, referring to the 'earthbending' display. And it was. It had been captivating and mesmerizing, the baroness's own movements as well as the movements of the stones.
Her serene smile remained at Toph's question. Did her parents love her? It was a question she had never bothered to contemplate. It had always seemed unimportant, as was any other aspect of her life. "I suppose they must have loved me very deeply. They loved me enough to leave me at the temple on the day that I was born."
Yes, only parents who loved her deeply would have given her up to the goddess, Estolia. Verbena wasn't aware of how strange that logic might have seemed to others. |
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Post by Toph Bei Fong on Mar 23, 2010 9:25:55 GMT -5
Toph opened her mouth to utter a sharp 'ah-ha!', but thought better of it, and closed it. She sighed.
"Maybe you were better off without them," she said finally. "Mine loved me just fine, as long as I was perfect. The life-sized doll they could dress up in the finest kimono and carry around on the Bei Fong palanquin and lead by the hand like a family pet struck blind by a horrible accident. Poor Blind Toph! Cant do anything for herself! Had to be protected from the world! Maybe if she was really really lucky a nice young lord will lower himself to marry the cripple and then she can have daughters to help take care of her! Ugh!"
In her anger, Toph stamped at the ground. Unfocused, her earthbending sent several path stone spinning up in the air, to fall back into place with a crash. Gaia what s was with her today? First the war, now her parents... this was all old news. Didn't she come here to get away from both? Why was she dwelling on them now?
"Sorry, Angel." she said to the priestess. "I don't think I'm very good company today. Think I'd better leave you to your 'search' alone."
Toph knelt down to collect her shoes, but stood again with them dangling from her fingers without putting them back on.
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Post by Verbena Nightshade on Mar 26, 2010 19:40:42 GMT -5
|| ♥ || ♥ || &hearts || ♥ || ♥ || ♥ || &hearts || The priestess smiled serenely. "That is certainly the case for myself..." she said brightly. It was true. If her parents hadn't left her to become a priestess, she would not have had the fortune of growing up in the temple and of giving herself so completely to the goddess.
Verbena was fortunate. She wasn't going to deny that. She wasn't going to say that she could understand Toph's difficulties. That was certainly not a possibility. How could she understand what she had never experienced? And pity was an insult. She was sure that the baroness's parents loved her in their own way, just as she was sure that this was a conclusion she must not share. Not at this point in time, at least.
Her gray eyes glittered as Toph moved to collect her shoes, letting them hang uselessly in her hands. "I believe that any company is good company," that hadn't come out exactly as she had meant and she wondered if it could be misinterpreted. "You have been wonderful company."
Slowly, the dark-haired teenager made her way to the other girl, small even steps gliding across the frost-covered grass. "If you are going back, at least allow me to accompany you." One could only search for so long while maintaining the necessary level of concentration. Besides, she was intrigued by this stranger who had so openly revealed something so intimate. She was intrigued by someone who did not believe in love and who could confidently say so. |
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