~A Zutara Fic~
Everything was so serene, so still, so silver. The world was a delicate dessert, frozen and sugarcoated with a full moon cherry immersed in a star-sprinkled sky. Mere hours earlier, the earth was a canvas of brown, barren of foliage and prepared for the rough onslaught of the northern Earth Kingdom winter. Now, blankets of snow were tucked snuggly around tree trunks; icicles formed along stiff branches like rows of teeth; every surface covered in snow caught the moon's brilliant light and painted the world metallic white.
And dear spirits, it was cold.
Toph hated the cold, especially then as she laid awake on one of Appa's p