"Fast is good for dodging," Toph says, giving him that. She can tell he's lying his butt off about not caring about their fight, though. She doesn't need to use lie-detection earthbending to know that statement is opposite to how he'd been acting earlier.

It's actually a little worrying that this little spunky guy is so eager to take on people so much bigger than him - there are plenty of people here who would've just squashed him.

She thinks of how to phrase it. "Listen, Mosquito, it's not that I don't understand having a disadvantage and being underestimated by everyone, you know? But you gotta approach it using the skills you do have."