Here again: you could learn a lot just from listening to someone. Toph heard a mix of things. Wonder, wistfulness, maybe even an edge of bitterness to how much more negatively the war had impacted his tribe. It probably felt pretty unfair to have taken the brunt of the Fire Nation's attention.

Toph appreciated all of this context, not just about how the tribes were different, but how Sokka had processed it. Already, Toph had a better understanding of where her Water Tribe friends were coming from. And maybe, in the back of her mind, it was a little more context for where Katara specifically had been coming from when she got so bent out of shape those first couple of nights. They were a small and tight-knit community where working as a cooperative unit wasn't just a preference but a survival tactic.

That didn't mean those kinds of feelings were something to dwell on, though, not for either of them. She grinned.

"Yeah, 'cuz we rock!" And let go of his arm long enough to give it a light punch.