Get real, there's no snake in here, [ Toph answers with careless confidence, snorting at the attempt. Her earthbending means she operates like a low-level radar for anything in contact with the ground in a pretty large radius around her. Unless the snake is somehow flying or suspended in midair, there's no snake.
She's a very short, small girl in rumpled green-and-yellow clothes, dirt-coated bare feet showing more than a few signs of frostbite. She shoulders her way rudely past House into the clinic stock room to start rummaging around. ]
Got anything in here I can use to warm up my feet?
[ Toph likes to push herself to her limits, sure, and she's not about to put shoes on or stop helping with the rebuilding, but she's also not going to chance getting blisters on her feet, which she depends on for her most important sensory input. If she has to take breaks then she'll take breaks. That being said, she's been spending enough time outside that she's starting to think she needs to do more than just take breaks to rub some warmth back into her toes... ]
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She's a very short, small girl in rumpled green-and-yellow clothes, dirt-coated bare feet showing more than a few signs of frostbite. She shoulders her way rudely past House into the clinic stock room to start rummaging around. ]
Got anything in here I can use to warm up my feet?
[ Toph likes to push herself to her limits, sure, and she's not about to put shoes on or stop helping with the rebuilding, but she's also not going to chance getting blisters on her feet, which she depends on for her most important sensory input. If she has to take breaks then she'll take breaks. That being said, she's been spending enough time outside that she's starting to think she needs to do more than just take breaks to rub some warmth back into her toes... ]