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Head in Blindly [Active]

Character(s): Toph, Rakka, Open To Any
Content: A blind girl quite used to traveling the world wakes up in a very strange place.
Setting: Joutenheim Gate-->surrounding area
Time: Afternoon
Warnings: Possible Language?

Toph normally wasn't one to awake so abruptly but when you suddenly don't feel your friends around you that gives you a pretty good reason to. Her hand on the ground she usually could feel them sleeping around her and that was comforting but then suddenly their presence had disappeared. Sightless eyes snapped open and while it didn't help she glanced around, "Sokka? Aang? Katara?" She knew it was pointless...she could feel with her own two hands touching the ground that they weren't there. No one was. Toph realized, belatedly, that she wasn't even in the Western Air Temple anymore.

The earth bender scrambled to her feet and then realized something else...she wasn't as alone as she had thought. There was a gate just a few feet away and a small line of people before it. 'What's that about,' she wondered, walking closer. She was hesitant to get in line...something about this place reminded her of Ba Sing Se...perhaps it was the gate and the walls she could sense. Still, the only way she would find anything out would be to get in line and go, so she did just that with a reluctant sigh.

After providing her name she was almost immediately rushed into the city, "H-hey!"

A person nearby turned to her and greeted her, "Hello. Welcome to Paixao, would you like a complimentary electronic journal?" The question was mostly just formality because Toph felt a small rectangular object forced into her hands.

"What the---what is this?"

The person, who from the voice Toph was picking up that it was a female. Explained what it was and Toph frowned, offering it back, "I can't use this. I can't read." She waved her hand in front of her face as if to demonstrate just why she couldn't read...or write for that matter. The person explained that it had a voice function and Toph blinked, what kind of weird place was this.

"Uhm...alright, I'll take it then but where can I find my friends...they weren't outside," Toph inquired, however the woman was off giving another journal to someone else. Toph sighed, the rectangular object held in her hands. She didn't get what was going on at all and being confused was very frustrating. "Fine," she grumbled, she tucked the journal or whatever the heck it was into her bag and started wandering off. There were tons of people around surely one of them would have spotted a bald kid with an arrow on his head at least.

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Rakka had been looking for groceries, but her travels had taken her just a bit off course. After all, the home--secret base--she shared with Rikku was some ways away from here, although at least she had a map available, so she couldn't get too lost.

Her travel took her past a gate--this one Joutenheim, apparently--and she glanced over at the new arrivals. Most of them were the blond-haired natives of Paixao, but a dark-haired girl dressed in earthy colors stood out immediately. Must have been someone new pulled in, then. Rakka, always willing to help, approached.

"Excuse me, are you new here?" she asked, smiling.

Toph looked up when she realized one of the many footsteps around her was actually approaching. Great, now what, she thought, but when the person spoke she picked up a different quality in the tone than the people who had been shoving the journal at her and what not.

"Uhm...yeah," Toph admitted, feeling not only was it best to tell the truth but also hoping that whoever this person was wouldn't be quite such an irritating reminder of Ju Di. She turned her head slightly in the direction of the voice, though her sightless eyes remained on the ground, "I guess you can say I just wandered in..."

Rakka fluttered her wings a bit as she thought. The gate guards were notoriously unhelpful.

"Well, this place is Paixao," she said, "and people just... Show up here. Nobody knows why."

After a moment's pause: "Oh, I'm Rakka! Who are you?"

"Yeah...I got that much," Toph said, not bothering much to hide the sarcasm. The people at the gate had told her the name and obviously by her being here she could understand the people just 'showing up.' It seemed kind of weird that nobody knew why though...there had to be a reason right. "Nobody? How long have people been just showing up here anyway?"

Rakka, that wasn't a name she'd heard before...perhaps this really was a different place. The earth certainly felt strange enough for it to be, "I'm Toph, Toph Bei-Fong."

Rakka chose to ignore the sarcasm in favor of answering Toph's question. "I've been here for about a week, but some people have been here months... Maybe years."

He tone was a bit downcast at that; she didn't want to have to live here forever. But she tried to perk up a bit. "The money here is anything shiny, so you can just use the leaves off the trees, or the flowers," she said. "And you have to be careful about some sort of Organization. They wear black cloaks."

Well, that was something she really didn't want to hear. Months, years? Damn it they only had until the end of summer to get Aang on the ball with mastering the four elements and while he was getting better with earth bending he still had a long way to go.

She sighed, she could tell this was a sore topic for Rakka and she may be mostly mean but this woman was trying to help her out. Trying being the keyword there, her descriptions of the money and this Organization was not helping at all. "Uhm," she tilted her head up more in the direction of where she could figure Rakka's face was, maybe if she saw the cloudy eyes she'd understand, "I'm blind so...telling me it's shiny isn't really going to help."

"O-oh!" Rakka did notice the clouded eyes, and of course Toph's statement was obvious enough. She blushed, fluttered her wings embarrassedly, and her hair sprung up, drawn via static electricity to her halo.

At least Toph couldn't see it.

"Well, all the plants are shiny," Rakka said. "Pick any of them--they're not real--and you'll be able to use them as money."

As for the Organization, she wasn't sure how one would identify them, if not from sight. Maybe through their voices, but Rakka had never heard one in person--and really didn't want to.

"I know there's more information about the Organization on the journals," Rakka said finally; there were people on there that could explain them better than she could. "It's got a voice function."

So the plants weren't real, Toph's toes curled, no wonder the ground felt so strange. Rakka's descriptions still weren't very helpful but Toph could tell she was trying. "Alright, I'll keep that in mind." As for this Organization...well maybe she wouldn't worry about them too much...unless other people warned her as well. Even then if the only description she got was that they wore black cloaks well she would just be out of luck.

"Yeah...that's pretty cool...we don't have anything like that where I come from," she replied, thinking of the strange device now in her bag. She'd have to sit down and mess with it later to get make a 'post' or whatever. At least that would be pretty interesting. "So...uhm...if I'm stuck here is there any place I can stay," she didn't mind camping out or whatever...she'd been doing that for quite awhile now...but it would be a nice thing to know.

"I've never seen anything like them in my world, either," Rakka said. "There are a few hotels in the city, and there's a map on the journals, but I don't know how voice activated that is."

She considered for a moment. "I could show you to one if you'd like? Or you could stay in one of the buildings that nobody uses; my friend and I have a place..."

Toph held up her hand to signal Rakka to stop her offer, "A hotel is fine...although I suppose I'll have to find some money first...although I've gotten so used to roughing it anyway it wouldn't matter." She pondered it for a moment, she knew she probably wouldn't stay in one place long...she had to see if the others were here somewhere and, well, she enjoyed being out on her own so a whole world totally unlike anything she had ever experienced would be pretty cool.

"You're standing on money," Rakka said. "The grass has gold flecks in it."

She didn't understand it herself; didn't the city need a better source of money than this? But it could have worked as it did in Glie; the haibane did work and were paid for by the Haibane-Renmei. Maybe some sort of organization was paying the bills? She checked the map on her journal.

"There's a hotel--Actua Are--about two miles east," Rakka said.

Toph frowned a bit, she was finding it really hard to believe that grass was a form of money here. She was blind but she wasn't gullible or stupid. Still there was a tone to Rakka's voice that told her she wasn't lying...that and the fact the grass felt weird...maybe it WAS shiny and worth something. She reached down and pulled some up, a handful of 'gold' grass. She clutched it in her hand, getting a feel for its texture for future reference, "Right..."

The blind girl didn't know which way was east...yet...she'd figure it out eventually...this world was so strange it might be different here. "That'll work," two miles wasn't much of a walk at all, "It's not out of your way is it? I don't want to be trouble or anything."

"It's no trouble," Rakka said, though it really was out of her way. But she wanted to help either way. She was about to begin walking when she remembered Toph's blindness. It wouldn't do any good to leave without telling her.

"East is to your left," Rakka said. "Um, can you follow me?"

She wasn't trying to be rude; she would be happy to make conversation the entire way, but she didn't want to lose Toph in any moment of silence.

Toph had started walking when she felt Rakka make a move to leave but stopped when she did, that was right...Rakka didn't know that Toph was quite capable of getting around on her own. Although it did help to know which way was east, "Yup, don't worry about it, I might not be able to see with my eyes but I can make my way around by other means."

She started walking in the direction to the left, since that was east and where the hotel was, "Thanks for helping me out."

"Oh, okay," Rakka said with a smile, half wondering how she did it and half not wanting to intrude or be thought of as rude. She started walking again, heading for the hotel. "It's no trouble. This place can be hard to get used to. But it kind of reminds me of home."

A city no one could leave, people appearing mysteriously, even the monetary system that wasn't really money at all... It was very much like Glie. It allowed her to be more familiar with things than she might have been otherwise, but it also made her homesick.

"What sort of world are you from?"

It was much too different from anywhere Toph had ever been to make it feel like home...although the being stuck here thing was kind of familiar in a not so good way. The troublesome thing however was that she didn't want to get used to it. She had important things to take care of 'back home' and couldn't really waste time here...but it looked like she really had no choice in the matter. So, she followed Rakka, the ground was strange to her feet but she was managing navigation well enough.

The question was strange and caught Toph off guard a bit. It was one thing explaining to someone about a city they had never been to or maybe even a nation, but a whole world? "Well...it's a world divided into four nation-states based on the four types of bending that can be done. There's the Earth Kingdom, the Water Tribes, the Air Nomads, and the Fire Nation...I'm from the Earth Kingdom though I was traveling in the Fire Nation before I got...here," Toph explained, not quite sure what to tell Rakka.

Rakka listened with genuine interest as they walked. That sort of world was one she had no idea about, but it certainly sounded interesting. "Bending?" she inquired further. She assumed it was some sort of ability; many people in Paixao seemed to have them.

And all Rakka had to show for her strangeness were wings and a halo. She fluttered them self-consciously, even knowing Toph couldn't see them to comment anyway. They were making good time, at least.

She didn't know what bending was?! Toph blinked in surprise. This really was a strange and new world or something if Rakka didn't know what it was. Of course now Toph had to think of a way to explain it, "Earth bending is...like a martial arts form only along with the movements if you apply your will to it you can get rocks and the earth to move for you."

Rakka's eyes widened. "Wow, I've never seen something like that before!"

It seemed like haibane were average in comparison to most people in Paixao. Below average, even, in terms of abilities. But Rakka didn't mind; she didn't mind being a haibane--not any more, at least.

"Can everyone in your world do that?"

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