[ Correction made and accepted, Toph immediately moves on to growing excitement over getting actual food. It also helps return a small sense of normalcy against the lurking discomfort that she's really somewhere completely different, and her idiot friends might need her help and she won't be able to be there.
If she can make new friends here, if it can feel something like normal life, Toph won't have to feel quite as frustrated about her inability to go home. It's not like she'd been totally happy with her lot -- she's eager to try new things, meet new people, experience new places. But not being able to be there if her friends need her grates something terrible. ]
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[ Correction made and accepted, Toph immediately moves on to growing excitement over getting actual food. It also helps return a small sense of normalcy against the lurking discomfort that she's really somewhere completely different, and her idiot friends might need her help and she won't be able to be there.
If she can make new friends here, if it can feel something like normal life, Toph won't have to feel quite as frustrated about her inability to go home. It's not like she'd been totally happy with her lot -- she's eager to try new things, meet new people, experience new places. But not being able to be there if her friends need her grates something terrible. ]