It was just an hour after sunrise when Katara walked into Toph's tent. "Toph! Toph! Would you wake up already and go do your chores.", Katara said to the sleeping girl.
Toph groaned and sat up. "Don't you have any decency? I could barely get any sleep last night thanks to all your yelling and now you're waking me up just for some stupid chores."
"Being tired is not an excuse. Now get up and get moving."
"Y'know, just for one day, I wish you'd stop nagging so much. You're like a fly buzzing in my ear", Toph complained
"Well", Katara started to say, "maybe if you weren't so lazy..." but as she was about to finish her statement, her body seized up and she became unable to move. She could only watch in awe as the world gradually expanded before her eyes.
"Huh? What's going on?" Toph couldn't actually see Katara, but she felt something weird going on with the ground vibrations where she was standing. It almost seemed like Katara was getting smaller, but that couldn't possible be right... could it?
Katara finished shrinking at just a quarter inch tall. Whatever force had been holding her still let go of her and she stumbled down, falling on her knees. Toph too a tentative step forward, causing what felt like a small earthquake for Katara.
"Katara?" Toph asked. "Is it just me or have you gotten... smaller?"
"Toph! I'm down here, be careful! "Katara yelled at her now-giant friend.
Toph went down on all fours, her massive head hovering over Katara. "Wow. You're really, really small", she said, laying her hand on the ground next to Katara. Her fingers were thicker than Katara was tall.
Katara took a step back from the titanic digits. "Uh, Toph?", she said. "Please be more careful with where you put your hands. Remember that you could crush me with just one finger."
"What's that?" Toph asked. "I can't hear you from up here. Hold on..." Toph stood up again and raised her right foot off the ground. "Let me get a better look at you." With great precision, Toph slammed her foot on the ground, surrounding Katara with her two big toes.
Katara shrieked and fell down as she felt the ground shake violently beneath her. She heard Toph giggling above her and looked up to see her grinning down at Katara.
Feeling furious with the younger girl, Katara took a step towards Toph's big toe and punched it as hard as she could, which only made Toph laugh harder. "Aw, come one, don't be mad.", she said, stifling her laughter. "I was just messing with ya. Now come here." Crouching down, she picked up Katara with her thumb and index finger, then dropped her in her open palm and left her tent.
Where is Toph going now?
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