Series: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Spoilers/warnings: Pre-series.
Wordcount: 100
Summary: She can't see with her eyes, but she can still see better than most.
Being blind doesn’t mean she’s helpless, but Toph learns to accept that she can never fully comprehend some things—colors, letters, the ever distant horizon.
She doesn’t understand her father’s fear either. Though she can smell it in his sweat, hear it in his trembling voice and heartbeat.
When Toph’s mother takes ill, Lao Bei Fong’s fear is suffocating as he takes her hand and holds it close. “Don’t worry, your mother is fine. She just looks a little pale so we’re having her rest.”
Toph listens, wondering if all frailties are so arbitrarily determined by things she cannot see.