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A/N: DA user SqueakyE did a sketch commission for this chapter. You can find it in the description. Esteemed Denial -119 ASC; Winter- -Toph's age: 31- I don't want this. I never wanted this. How did I let this happen? Is this real? If this is a real thing, what am I going to do? The brain of Toph Beifong was being flooded from both sides that evening: one side by a stream of dreadful thoughts, the other by a steady trickling of saké. Her mind's meanderings ran ice cold while the saké was piping hot. The rice wine stung at the edges of her throat on the way down, a masochistic delight in her self-loathing state. Her home was just as quiet tha