the noise and confusion
Chuck had never been in an explosion before. He had a dream, once, in which his wife exploded, but dismissed that as nothing more than a silly nightmare brought on by some late night Thai. He would never want his wife to explode! Why would he want that? He loves her. That's why he married her. Anyway, it was a thoroughly unpleasant dream, filled
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Why, Chuck, you may want to take notice of the tiny barefoot 12-year-old Asian-looking blind girl behind you. And then either talk to her in an entertaining way or move.
Depending on her mood, she will kick your butt with rocks.
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"Who are you? You're not one of my students!"
He points the golf club at her in a very accusing manner. No, he doesn't realize she's blind. Chuck doesn't realize a lot of things.
"Did you see what happened? Because I had nothing to do with that explosion."
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"Hello? Pay attention, here, I'm blind!"
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Phew.
"Well, then, just forget I said anything. There was no explosion."
Judging by the look of the area, there really was no explosion. Why the hell is he in the middle of a park? The explosion that didn't happen couldn't possibly have thrown him this far.
"Have you seen another man around here? Goes by the name of Geoffrey, has hair that gently curls around his head, dark chocolate eyes..." He swoons sighs.
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If this keeps up, she'll have a red spot to rival Sokka's.
"Did we forget about the whole blind thing in the two seconds since I told you?" she says, hands on her hips.
She may twist her stance just a tiny bit... enough to bring a fruit-sized rock up to whack Chuck in the back. Just to mess with him.
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And then falls into a stance. Firm. Like a rock. And then she moves. And when she moves, the ground moves with her. Or, more specifically, the ground under Noblet moves up very fast, sending him ten feet or so up in the air, and leaving him to, y'know...
Fall on his ass.
"And I don't take handouts! I can carry my own weight!"
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Just. Moving ground and moving girl. Chuck may be an idiot, but he's not blind (like some people, ahem) - he knows there's a connection between those two things, and he is considerably freaked out.
"Ow! What - what did you just do?"
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C'mon, give us a break, she's twelve, and tiny badass. How is that not cute?
"And I," she bends again, just enough to bring a couple spurs of rock up within a couple inches of crushing his skull like a grape, "am one of the best Earthbenders in the entire Earth Kingdom. So don't make me mad!"
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In fact, Chuck thinks it's kind of evil. Witchcraft evil.
He swings his club wildly at the oncoming rocks and misses each one. This is when he starts to really panic.
"OH MY GOD. You're going to kill me, aren't you? Please," he says, voice cracking as he kneels toward her, all groveling-like, "spare me. Spare my soul. I'm a good man! I'm just confused! I just - I - OH GOD."
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"So... so you're not here to destroy me?"
That's kind of comforting. We suppose.
"Where did you come from? Who are you?"
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