As she hefted herself into a sitting position inside her Inn's room, Katara remembered stumbling back to her hotel room in the dark, too exhausted to search out Toph and Suki after finally tracking down Ty Lee. She had no real way of keeping Ty Lee put, but she hoped that the stern talking-to she gave her after received after they had eaten through the entire stock of the bakery...

"Who am I kidding. She's probably bigger than I am by now." Katara frustratedly murmured to herself. Putting her index fingers to her temples, Katara tried to silence her hunger pangs long enough to to make a guess at how long she had slept. She certainly felt refreshed. She noticed she had never changed out of her old clothes, which were discolored with frosting and the buckets of sweat they had absorbed since their journey began.Her sheets were as damp and frosting-blotched as her clothes. Katara guessed was so exhausted she probably just fell face-first into her bed. Katara noted her morning breath was probably the most pungent it had ever been in her life, which must mean she had probably slept for a prolonged period of time. The whole room was almost humid from the smell of her unwashed body. It was daylight, but only just; it seemed to be the crack of dawn. It all clicked at once.

I've been asleep for like thirty hours!! Katara gasped, granting herself another unpleasant whiff of her breath. She was frightened for Ty Lee and Suki, but even more frightened for what her appetite would be like once her stomach woke up...Katara decided if she was even going to function, she'd need to gather as much butter as possible and get to the beach so she could fish up some elephant koi. She would -try- and cook it all but chances are she wouldn't have the time, as she could already feel a void deep within her stomach and an itch growingstarting in the back of her mind. She would have to eat whatever she came across from the vendors along the way to work up some semblance of bending power, then cram as much seafood down her gullet as possible before the real withdrawals started to kick in. As she threw herself to her feet, hearing a small tearing noise from one leg of her stretch pants, Katara had cleared from her mind of all other priorities. Already sweating from anxiety, Katara stumbled out of her room without any further thoughts towards her friends, a cure, or taking care of that terrible morning breath.

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"Toph, I'm not kidding! I need to hand out watch assignments!" Suki was contentedly slurping down a plate of fried eggs heaped on top of a buttered roll, the first course of her breakfast. Despite her heavy binging over the last day, her soldierly discipline managed to keep her internal clock razor-sharp. If Toph hadn't heard her trying to get her chest plate back on, Suki would have strolled right out of her house, back to exercise and drills!

They decided to crash at Suki's place for the night, and Toph had outright declined Suki's offer to draw her a bath. Not wanting to make her too uncomfortable (or expose anyone less tolerant than Katara to a full night of her flatulence), Toph slept on the floor of the main room of the one-story village house. After getting woken up by Suki, Toph had managed to gather enough breakfast to keep her from bolting back to the Kiyoshi warriors. Toph had managed to keep Suki supplied with enough food to keep her from scrutinizing her increasingly dubious excuses for a whole day, but she had almost slipped through Toph's puffy fingers this morning. Lucky, they stumbled across Ty Lee last afternoon, eating her way through a wedding cake she had purchased. A complete sugar-addict, Toph had little trouble getting Ty Lee to keep Suki distracted with her. The last thing Ty Lee wanted was a tongue-lashing from Suki when she was back on the job, and the longer she could postpone that, the better.

...Which brought Toph to her current situation. Ty Lee gave a knock at Suki's front door and entered without waiting for a response. Suki looked up. The acrobat had a bag in one hand, which she promptly reached into to retrieve a sweet roll. "Ok, the second in command is in charge again for the day! I went and told 'em!" Suki's glare was no less intimidating without her makeup, even with bedhead. "I told you not to do that! I said I was going to get up on time, and I did! See!" Toph cut in before Suki let her anger stifle her appetite. "We'll work it out after breakfast." Toph tried to visualize Ty Lee's extra weight. She didn't seem any more lethargic than she did two days ago, but she definitely was far less of a waif, her vibrations proved it. To Suki, Ty Lee's body seemed to have been stretched horizontally at first glance. There were no visible rolls, but her stomach was wider and rounded out, making her acrobat's clothes look more like a belly-dancer's. Her bloated chest further suggested the archetype. Her arms were thicker, and her hips had a new wiggle to them. Her lean muscle had done a good job supporting her first thirty pounds, but she certainly didn't look like she could pull off the most rigorous of her acrobat techniques with that extra baggage. Ty Lee gave her sweet roll a big lick before shoving the entire thing into her mouth. Toph grinned. "No wonder you're so energetic, all I ever smell around you is sugar!" Ty Lee just sighed with dreamy pleasure as she pulled out the next roll. "It's just all so good! Melt-in-your mouth is the best kind of melting, and you know that's a big deal coming from a Fire Nation girl!" She flashed a smile at Toph, even though she knew she couldn't see it. Toph's senses were acute enough to tell she was getting a grin, though. She could just make out the sound of Ty Lee's lips parting with her heightened senses, and could detect a sugary puff of breath doing a good job of covering up the fact she hadn't brushed her teeth in two days.

Suki sighed. "Fine. One more day. Then its back to work. I better go grab some off-duty clothes...then seconds." She gratefully accepted another plate of fried eggs from Toph and returned to her room.
Suki wasn't as lucky as Ty Lee when it came to how her weight was settling. It seemed her body was hellbent on making her look as tubby as possible with the smallest amount of adipose; her thirty pounds had puffed out her cheeks, thickened her arms, pushed out her chest, and given Suki a potbelly that looked less like a soft extension of feminine curves like Ty Lee and more like an oblong bowling ball jutting out from her midriff. Her butt was certainly bigger, but her hips were too small to outrace her belly, destroying the last semblance of feminine curves on her already tomboyish body, even with the extra weight in her breasts; they looked more wide than round and perky like Ty Lee's girls' did.

Toph turned to Ty Lee when Suki disappeared into the other room. "So, is Katara -still- asleep?" Ty Lee scratched her head with a sticky finger, pulling a few hairs askew on the top of her head. A tiny lick of hair above her forehead remained upright, gelled in place by liquid sugar. "Yeah, I could hear her snoring from outside the inn. She was -really- exhausted looking for me. I guess I could have checked back after I dropped off the orders for the Kiyoshi Warriors, but I just had to swing by that bakery for breakfast!" Toph didn't think the ditzy acrobat had eaten anything other than sweets since she started overeating.

Toph shrugged and shoved a fist-full of bacon into her mouth. When her mouth couldn't hold another cubic centimeter of greasy, crispy perfection, she offhandedly remarked, "Wughen shugurh queen wakes uph, shesh gonna be starvhingh!" The final word was accentuated by a spray of saliva and bacon chunks, some of which landed on Suki's eggs.