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002 -- [Action || Voice]

[After a good week of mostly having his nose stuck in his journal, Shikamaru is fairly satisfied that he knows it forward and back. As for half of the information he's gotten out of it? Not so much. But thinking is troublesome, and he's tired of trying to figure out what to do with what he's learned.

Thus, Thursday morning on sees him doing very little at all, besides sitting around on a bench stationed alongside the path between Seventh Heaven and Good Spirits, watching the clouds go by with a content grin on his face. Ah, that's much better.

Sometime into the evening, before it gets dark out, he lights a cigarette and opens his journal.]

...So anyone know how to play this Pai Sho game? [ It's going to be his earworm until he finally gets to play, dammit. B| ]

[Filtered to Akimichi Chouji, Uzumaki Naruto, and Aburame Shino || 95% Unhackable]

Oi, let's get something to eat later.

[OOC: Forward-dated to Thursday, when there's good weather again. |D]

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A few months. [Frowning at the board now. She doesn't like to lose.]

You really are very good at this.

[Staring, staring, staring... ah-ha! A move which, will not save her, but will at least let her lose with some dignity. She takes it.]

I just like games. [There's a shrug.] But that's a good thing to look forward to. Did he tell you if it ends in your favor?

Yeah. It did. [That will never get old to say. Ever. There might as well have been two giant blinking neon signs randomly appearing over Katara's head broadcasting the words 'RELIEF' and 'JOY' for how blatantly her emotions manifest themselves in those three words.]

Then congrats. I'm sure it'll mean more once you're actually home.

[A hand moves up to curl loosely over her heart.] Thanks.

[And for an instant a hard light comes into her eyes.] Yeah, it will. I've still got things to do. [And that light leaves.] But it's good to know. It's... really good to know.

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[Maybe he'll ask more about this war one day. For now it seems like he has more than enough though.

He makes one more move.] One hundred points.

[Yeah, she saw that move coming. D:] You win.

[But she takes it with good grace.] Well, now you're all warmed up for Iroh.

Thanks for that. [He moves to gather up the tiles.] You should play more often. Not that I know much of anything about this game from what you've shown me, but you weren't exactly bad at it yourself.

[That makes a silly little smile quirk up her lips for a moment.] Thanks. It was kind of fun. Maybe I will.

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