It was another dark warm night in Earth Country. The sun had long since set, and the sky was gray and cloudy. The wind blew hard that night, sending gusts of heavy humid air through the mountainous terrain the Avatar and his friends had been traveling through, carrying with it the smells of damp grass and pinestraw that the Earth Kingdom was oh so famous for. Of course, traveling on foot through such a hilly and rocky area was a surprisingly dangerous task on a night such as this. There was relatively no light to guide them, leaving all of them in near pitch blackness but Toph of course. The long trail ahead of them was rendered invisible, save for on that rare occurance, when the moon peaked out from behind the cloudy barrier to light their way for a few moments, only to be snuffed out suddenly by a fresh wall of vapor.
"Ugh! This is impossible!" Katara complained as she trudged along the rocky trail, her arms outstretched in front of her to meet any obstacles before her face did. "Of