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[One moment he and Isa'd just been thrown out of King Ansem's castle; the next, he was here, and Lea had barely had time to look around before he'd been caught up in a whirlwind of explanations and ended up -- well, here.

Garden something? Seed something? His head had been spinning by the second sentence, but he definitely caught the bit where they told him there was no way to get home.

After that it had mostly been nodding and smiling and waiting until they let him out to explore the 'garden' he'd be stuck in. He doesn't know what to think about any of this: being here, being stuck, and worst of all, having left Isa behind.

Isa is going to kill him. When he gets back, which he is definitely going to figure out how to do. They've got plans, after all.

He's just got to figure this place out first. And find someone to explain it in smaller paragraphs that make more freaking sense.

So this afternoon there's a skinny teenager with spiky red hair sticking his nose in absolutely everywhere that isn't locked: the lobby, library, cafeteria, dorms, quad.... If you happen to be there, he may pounce!]

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Nice to meet you, Toph! And sure it could be worse, but we're stuck in a military school on the wrong world and there's no way home. How much worse does it really need to get?

... [Cocking his head to the side, looking at her funny.] What's wrong? Have I got something on my face?

I dunno, do you?

[She tilts her face up a little and brushes her bangs out of her eyes]

[Lea does a quick double-check, running his hand over his face. Okay, he can't feel anything.] Dunno, there's no mirrors out here. You just keep - [waving his right hand expansively] - looking somewhere else, that's all.

[Now she's tilting her face up, though, he can't help but notice that her eyes look sort of odd. He blinks.]

I'm not looking anywhere. I'm blind.

[She waves a hand in front of her face]

[Oh. Well, that explains it. His mouth hangs open awkwardly for a few seconds before he closes it and clears his throat.]

Oh. Sorry. For bringing it up, I mean.

Why're you sorry? Doesn't bother me, I can kick more butt than most people with working eyes.

[Pause. Consider. Grin.] Oh yeah? What kind of fighting do you do? -- like, swords, wrestling, something like that?

[She's pretty tiny, so maybe it's more like acrobatics.] We should fight sometime!

It's better than all of that. [She grins, and bangs a fist against the ground. A small chunk of it rises] It's Earthbending. Wrestling's fun too, though.

Whoa! [He jumps back instinctively, eyes wide, then leans down to take a look at the chunk of ground.] Was that magic?

No. [Eyeroll, and she sends the chunk of earth back into the ground] It's Earthbending.

Never heard of Earthbending. It looks like magic to me!

[Prodding at the spot on the ground with his toe.] Either way, that's pretty cool. How do you do it?

The others'll tell you it's all got to with the Spirit World and chi and stuff like that. [She shrugs] And it does, but like I care about that stuff.

Sounds complicated. So, hey, Toph - [not like he's easily distracted, but he just has to ask, okay?] is that the kind of thing you could teach somebody?

Probably not. Bending's something you're born being able to do, and if you don't know what it is, I doubt I could teach you.

Crap. I guess it's magic or nothing, huh. [Cheering up immediately] I'm pretty sure I remember that they have magic classes here, though, so I'll figure things out one way or another.

[He plants his hands on his hips.] We should still fight sometime! Just lemme settle in a bit first.

[Toph grins]

Sounds fun. I haven't had a good fight since I got here. I'm getting bored.

Great! [He beams, then pauses, and glances down at the ground with a more serious expression.] Hey, is there anybody else here from your home world?

All of my friends were here when I got here. It was weird, I'd seen them just a few days before but they were saying they'd been here for a while.

That's pretty lucky. I haven't seen any familiar faces yet.

Wait, they thought it'd been way longer than it really was? [Frowning.] How's that work?

No clue, but we were dragged here by something called the 'Time Compression'.

So it might screw up the way time works for us when we get dragged in.

[A slow nod.] Yeah, okay, I guess that makes sense. In a weird way. Maybe we've got more time to get home than I thought, if time's going faster here than there!

Makes as much sense as anything else in this place does. [A moment] Though hamburgers make a lot of sense. I like those.

Don't even talk about it! I skipped lunch. When do they start serving dinner around here, anyway?

It's on a schedule somewhere, but I usually just wander in and if there's a lot of people, I eat.

Sounds like a plan! I'll have to drop by that cafeteria again.

[His stomach growls, and he laughs.] Pretty soon.

[ooc; I'm crashing but I'll catch tags in the morning!]

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