[The words come out as little more than a strained whisper, mostly because he knows there's no use in asking a question like that. The signs of someone's departure from Luceti were generally impossible to misinterpret, and if there was a message up like this, there's no doubt that what has happened is as he says it is. Toph wasn't in Luceti anymore.]
[Usually he manages to hold himself together for the sake of whoever has to make that difficult announcement. But after everything that happened between them this winter, everything that happened this past month, and everything that's been happening these past few days, Ion doesn't have much composure left to hold him together.]
[Voice]
[The words come out as little more than a strained whisper, mostly because he knows there's no use in asking a question like that. The signs of someone's departure from Luceti were generally impossible to misinterpret, and if there was a message up like this, there's no doubt that what has happened is as he says it is. Toph wasn't in Luceti anymore.]
[Usually he manages to hold himself together for the sake of whoever has to make that difficult announcement. But after everything that happened between them this winter, everything that happened this past month, and everything that's been happening these past few days, Ion doesn't have much composure left to hold him together.]