His assessment was accurate. After all, it wasn't the fact that her father lived and breathed in the world that would ultimately hurt Toph; it was the fact that he would deny her existence, refuse to call her his daughter, and turn away.

It would be the fact that after all she'd done, he still couldn't see her.

And didn't want to.

"Oh." She took this in a moment, turned it over . . . and her shoulders lifted. "He's good at picking out stuff that'll do well in the future. So in a way, if he got involved with you guys in the first place, it's probably a good sign."

Pause. ". . . He didn't know about the unstable mine, right?"