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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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.
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"Slipstream, right?"
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"That wasn't by chance you having fun, there?" She lifted her left thruster, then set it down again, to indicate a step.
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"Should we ladies get to business?" She asked, still standing near the bench. "There's some supplemental raw material, should you need it." Slipstream set a bundle down at her right side, the contents shifted slightly with a low, metal-on-metal ring.
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Oooooh, stuff! Toph hopped off her bench to go run her hands over what of the material she could reach, totally fearless in the presence of the Decepticon.
"Nice. Yeah, we should. What size exactly are we talking about?"
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"I'm not quite familiar with your abilities. This should be enough to make something full-scale, yet hollow. Naturally, if it must be solid, this is enough for something much smaller."
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"Hollow? I can do that. It'll be lighter to move around after, but if you want it anchored on something I can come along and do that."
I dawned on her that she didn't really have a place to work on the statues just yet. Hmmm, maybe she should've thought this through a little better.One of those abandoned warehouse things should do the trick though. Provided she could get the material to it.
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Slipstream shifted her weight slightly as she looked around the markets. "I might have mentioned this is a surprise for somebot. Installation site isn't really determined, yet. You...just do the work here?"
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"Iiii actually hadn't thought quite that far yet. But I bet some of the abandoned warehouses or whatever would work. I just need enough height to build it in. Getting it out won't be a problem."
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"You got your...senses on any one in particular?"
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"Not particularly, just yet. Got a suggestion?"
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"You want something within easy reach of the transit hub, but not so close to the market or transit that people are interfering with your work." Wouldn't want to draw Security too easily. "Maybe something closer to that Lookout place, without being right in its shade."
"You...want to go search, Toph?" She didn't have any pressing business, and if she helped the girl, perhaps she could get the statue completed, and persuade the Earthbender not to be an enemy. Allies were always useful.
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"Lookout? Haven't heard of it, but sure. Any place close enough for me to walk where I need to go but far enough away that nobody'll bother me is perfect," she replied, gaining enthusiasm for the idea. Yesss, her own place. The older structures provided ample opportunity for entrepreneuers...and squatters. Among other things. Mwahaha.
"Yes, let's. If we find somewhere awesome, I will totally give you a discount."
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Slipstream extended a hand to point, but realized this too, would be ineffective. "A discount sounds good. Toward your left. We should go a few blocks that way. Do you wish to remain on your feet, or be carried?" Slipstream wasn't in the practice of carrying organics, but it seemed an efficient way to transport one, if they were agreeable. If there were protest, it wouldn't be worth her while to insist.
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"I'd rather walk," she replied out of habit, then frowned. Walking would be totally slow compared to her new favorite client.
"But I can run to keep up. Once we're off the main strip I can do something else, too, but it might get a bit of attention."
Being removed from the ground was one of her greatest fears in the nexus, if not the greatest. She couldn't see anything when not touching a solid surface. The memory of dangling helplessly from Sokka's hand over absolute nothingness still haunted her. So no thanks. Not unless it was absolutely necessary.
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