028 -- [Voice || Action]

[endgames]

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.

[/end voice]

[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.]

Comments

[Action]

[castbytheglyph]

Hmmm? [Oh, but now she's curious.] Okay, lemme guess, you're not into the whole fighting and getting dirty stuff unless you have to? Did I get it?

[Action]

[endgames]

[He tilts his head, impressed even if she didn't quite get it right.]

Sort of. That'd fit the old me to a tee.

[Action]

[castbytheglyph]

[Close enough.]

Awesome, got it in one! I dunno what the new you has against fighting but if it's kinda the same reason as the old you then that's good enough. Maybe the new you only likes fighting when he has to and when he has a lighter with him.

[That makes sense!]

[Action]

[endgames]

I'll fight when I have to. [Which is a lot.] It got to be troublesome, minding it.

Doesn't mean I'm gonna put my strengths and weaknesses on display in that place.

[The advantages so aren't worth the disadvantages to him.]

[Action]

[castbytheglyph]

Ooh, so that's what you're worried about, I get it. Don't think of it like that, think of it of a place where you can show off all your flashy moves and cool looking stuff!

[Pascal can only assume Shikamaru has all sorts of flashy things under his belt, or more smokey things anyway.]