The ground beneath Zuko's feet churns like the sea, grabbing hold of his ankles as the street surges up like a snake to usher him in a direction opposite of the one he'd been heading in. He's powerless to do anything about his predicament until the dirt releases him, sending him toppling across grass and gravel until he nearly bumps into a familiar pair of dirty feet.

If not for those feet, Zuko would've bent back at the person in retaliation, but the owner of those feet doesn't get the fierce master firebender poised to strike. They get a confused seventeen-year-old sitting back on his haunches, staring up at her in a mixture of confusion, wonder, and something akin to panic, because his well crafted jig just might be up.

"Toph?"

But then she's asking him questions, and it occurs to him that she's just as confused as he was — as Azula and Ty Lee were — when he got here. Likely even more so, since none of the things you find yourself with in the pod are exactly of any use to a blind girl.

"You're in—" He starts to answer her, but she cuts him off with a good whack to his shoulder. He yelps and glares, rubbing the spot where he's going to have a Toph-fist-shaped bruise later.

But the glare is halfhearted at best, because Zuko's honestly glad to see her, even if she's a part of the truth he's been hiding from Azula for months. She was the first member of the Avatar's team to give him a chance when he first approached them, even if he kind of sort of ruined that by burning her feet. (Never wake a sleeping firebender. Bad things happen.)

"Genessia. This place is called Genessia. I don't know why people are brought here, they just are."

Zuko gets up then, dusting off his rump and the backs of his legs.

"Please tell me you haven't done that to anyone else."