BUSINESS TIME IS GO

[vision_in_stone]

WHO: Toph, and anyone else who wanted to take her up on her business idea. Or anyone else who just wants to notice her.
WHAT: Business time! Toph's gonna make some statues for people. If the price is right.
WHERE: Markets of Zone 4 - neutral meeting zones!
WHEN: After this post.
WARNINGS/NOTES: Snarky blind child, potentially dangerous business

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[dontasktrix]

Slipstream flew through the infrastructure of the Offworlder Zones, to the market area. Once there, she transformed and moved about on foot, heels click-clanging on the roadways. As advanced as her targeting and optical processing was, it really was easier to spot a single small organic, when walking at street level.

Curiously, Slipstream lost her footing, where she had scanned no structural seam or defect below. No smaller mechanisms or organics appeared to be directly underfoot.

She fired thrusters, quickly enough that she righted herself without an embarrassing public fall. It was then, hovering a short distance above the substrate, she identified the small organic with the unusually pale eyes.

"Toph," She said. Slipstream hovered over, then alighted on the ground near the bench on which the girl sat.

[vision_in_stone]

Fliers. She hated fliers. Well, hated having to deal with them landing near her. This one she'd seen walking, though, and couldn't help but play her little trick. When the voice came, she grinned in the direction it came from, recognizing its owner instantly.

"Slipstream, right?"

[dontasktrix]

"Oh. Got it in one. Very good," Slipstream said casually, which probably still sounded a little edgy.

"That wasn't by chance you having fun, there?" She lifted her left thruster, then set it down again, to indicate a step.

[vision_in_stone]

"A lady never reveals her secrets," Toph informed the femme loftily, then grinned. Of course it had been her, and she wasn't going to apologize for it, either.

[big_bang_blue]

Megamind had thought of a million and one things and then some but the trouble was sorting them all out without become a part of his avalanche of ideas. He wanted to have a statue made of him and Roxanne along with his band but then that could become expensive and not to mention where was he going to put it?

So instead, he settled on the idea of having two bookends made of himself for Roxanne. It seemed a bit silly but there was a reason. To him, this was better than a portrait. These were 3-D stone models of himself and he thought it was a perfect idea. Not that he couldn't make the statues himself, he knew the importance of why Toph needed the money and the work. If he could have Roxanne show off the small statues at work, maybe that would bring in some people from the outside in. It was worth a shot.

Megamind, you've gotten soft. He thought to himself. If it wasn't for Roxanne in the first place, he wouldn't have gotten this far

[vision_in_stone]

Silly Megamind, Trix are for kids you can't sneak up on a girl whose particular brand of 'vision' is based on vibrations in hard surfaces...like the ground.

She didn't seem to notice him until he was just a few feet away, at which point the girl made a slight movement with one hand and slid her foot along the ground. The ground under him slipped sideways suddenly. Oops.

So much for awesome entrances.

[big_bang_blue]

Now that caused him to fall to the side. He wasn't expecting that at all. So much for a grand entrance. "OW! MY GIANT BLUE HEAD!"

Now he know not to do that again. His cape covered his head. "I think I'll just stay down here." Yep, he's embarrassed.

[vision_in_stone]

"You shouldn't sneak up on people who can see behind herself, you know." She didn't turn around just yet, but grinned wickedly over her shoulder at him. "And I'm guessing you're Megamind? From the voice and the giant blue head comment, heh."

She stamped a foot; the ground itself raised him back upright, but she couldn't get the cape to flip back. He'd have to handle that himself.