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So, yeah. Split up to draw attention away from Sparky, meditating quietly a level below with his little candle.

Which was the other reason she'd picked now to start her plan. He needed the quiet time anyway. A Zuko who couldn't get some space for himself was a cranky Zuko. Things around a cranky Zuko tended to be flammable. And according to what he'd told Aang in the very first firebending lesson they'd done, back at the Western Air Temple, the need to meditate was something Fire and Air shared – something about balancing the fact that they were active, willful elements that tended to do stuff even without the bender actually trying. Water and Earth had to practice moving – water to learn to work with the ebb and flow of currents, Earth to impose movement on inertia. Fire and Air had to practice sitting still.

That had been news to her, eavesdropping from the next room and wondering if she'd have to lock Katara's ankles in the dirt to keep her from attacking Aang's firebending teacher in a foaming fury that he'd dared talk about Water at all. Toph'd even felt a little guilty about interrupting Twinkletoes's meditation, back when she'd been giving his first lessons. Maybe he'd've gotten rock faster if he'd done his sitting-still practice first.

Nah. What Twinkletoes had really needed back then was how to stand his ground like he meant it. Sitting peacefully didn't do much for that!

But meditating was definitely a good thing for rarr-oh-was-that-a-cliff-I-just-jumped-off? firebenders. So she'd left to let Sparky practice his breathing.

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