endgames | 028 -- [Voice || Action]

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028 -- [Voice || Action]

Hi. [The journal feed starts unceremoniously.] Noticed the village is getting back into the swing of things. Either that or those who are sulking are doing so more quietly. Good luck with that, whichever.

But hey. I'm looking for a lighter that I misplaced. Anyone comes across it, lemme know. Thanks.

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[Through the afternoon and evening, Shikamaru can be found in various places around the village: digging through things in shops, searching through grass and shrubs and so on. He hasn't been around the village much in the last two days, busy elsewhere with his deer.

Now it almost seems like he's making up for it. One minute you might walk past him digging through the trash behind a building, only to go in to find he's inside already (probably asking if the place has a lost and found). Someone's busy.]

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Wait a second. [He drops the box he's holding, which luckily doesn't have anything breakable, and the pipe droops out of his mouth. This is a very important point. Something that absolutely must be clarified.]

I don't hug guys?

You're what - fourteen, right?

Y-yeah, give or take a hundred years.

Mind and body. All that counts.

[He pockets the pipe and moves onto Box 3, which has things like swiss army knives and such.]

It's fine. Going into adulthood there's better ways of acting.

[He quietly picks up the box he dropped and rifles through it some more.]

Oh, I see. So it's a maturity thing. [He tries to avoid those kinds of things. Especially being part of Team Hugatar.]

You grow into it.

[Shikamaru is just talking for the sake of talking at this point.]

If you say so. [He did grow into being the Avatar... but only because he had to.]

It's gotta be somewhere... [That... is a fork. Put it down, Aang.]

[Yeah. That's what he's been telling himself for two days.]

There's a couple more bins left. I'll move onto the next building if it's not in them.

So it really could be anywhere.

It wasn't where I thought it'd be, so.

[Anywhere, yeah.]

Oh. Yeah, what does happen to things that get lost here? Unless it just goes back home? [Which would mean it was safe. But Aang knows that if it's like Katara's necklace, Shikamaru would feel better having it near.] I can check the lost and found at the Welcome Center later if it doesn't turn up here.

I was there before this. [Offhanded, as he switches bins again. That one didn't have much in it.] I assume anything not in garbage bins sticks around.

Oh, sorry. [This really must have been some search.] I guess not. The garbages become empty every now and then, but I never see anyone take them away. I don't know where it goes.

I sat and watched the one in the bathroom once. My bet is a Shift.

That'd make sense, that is how they do... pretty much everything else. But if they Shift garbage back here... then that'd be really gross.

[He stops in his sorting long enough to give Aang a baffled look.]

Why would they do that?

I don't know why they would, I just thought that if you think it was in a garbage but it's actually here... then that's where they'd Shift it. Otherwise... I don't think there's anywhere inside Luceti where garbage would wind up.

Aa. [Yeah. He has been unclear on things. He goes back to business.]

I don't know where it is. In light of that, I'm not being picky in where I look.

I understand. I'd look anywhere if I lost something really special to me. [A beat.] Except maybe a toilet.

Ha. There are places that could be more awkward.

I'm not sure if I wanna know...

I won't spoil it.

[And it's at this point that another Shikamaru comes walking out of one of the back rooms.

"Yo, boss. Still no dice."]

[Aang jumps to attention, pointing at the other Shikamaru, clearly losing it.]

What? What? What?!

[The other Shikamaru waves, chill as can be. "Hey."]

Doing all right there, Aang?

Edited 2012-10-12 06:43 (UTC)

Shikamaru, two! Two you! Two yous! Did you... you-bend?!

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