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Meeting tonight, at sundown. [What about goes without saying - most of them should know already.] Fourth floor's kitchen. Try not to pull a Kakashi.

[And thus starts off the long to-do-list of Shikamaru's day. The filter goes up in the morning, giving - hopefully - everyone time to see it.

He's decided he needs to talk to Naruto before then. On his way out the building he'll stop by his apartment, or send another filter off to him if he's not around. With everything going on he would be surprised. After he's tracked him down, it's off to the other side of the village to find Tony Stark at his casa, to hand over a project he's been working on for the last several nights. Playing delivery boy again, ugh. No notice this time, though. He's acting like a functional human being again, but he's not up for the sarcastic banter. Once he's done there, it's over to the school to find Katara in the thirty minute window he has after classes let out. Apologies are an order.

Specific things attended to... wow, without Masaomi around this week, he has a lot of time on his hands, huh. Well okay. He goes off to the forest with a bag of coconuts of all things and lines them up at head level when he finds a good spot to sit them for tanto practice - or more precisely: strength training. He's never used his short sword much. The one time he did, he wasn't strong enough with it to do as he intended, so he should work on that now.

And okay, surely by then the sun will be going down... or okay, nope. With a few hours to kill, somehow he winds up at the Seventh Heaven restaurant. In part because he figures it could be a good place to drop off some of the coconuts, and also because he realizes on the way over he hasn't actually eaten yet. Or done much of anything this past week, besides getting Asuma up to speed about Luceti, or working on various projects.

Sooo. Might be nodding off there at the restaurant. Might be napping after he eats, if he doesn't get kicked out for it. SITTING DOWN WAS A TERRIBLE IDEA. Fine, he'll pose a random pointless question to the masses, maybe that'll keep him occupied.]

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Wonder why they call this place Luceti. Seems like a dumb name. Does it even mean anything?

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It's a country in Europe. Have you never heard of it before?

Not really. But to be fair, I've barely heard about Europe either.

I thought Europe was fairly well-known.. Where are you from, then?

The Land of Fire.

[YUP. Totally different Earth.]

You?

I'm from Japan. ... And.. The Land of Fire would be Tierra del Fuego, right? It's an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan. I've read about it before.

[ yes, just.. misunderstanding it.. ]

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[He perks up a tad. She misunderstood, yeah, but there's another Land of Fire out there? That's a funny thought.]

Not the same one, sorry. [...or has she] It's one of the largest countries in my world. Lots of forests.

Then it must be a different one, yes.. How interesting, that there's places with other countries out there.

You'll find a lot of people here with stories like that.

Has anyone ever made a list of all of the countries? Or maybe even a map of them..

Don't think you can fit them all on one map...

Of course you can. You'd just have to make sure the map is big enough, I think.

Even if you were trying to chart a hundred different worlds?

You'd just need to make a really, really big map. So big you could walk over it as if you're walking across all the countries.

[He's still not seeing how it'd be possible, even if you made everything tiny. Some people don't know enough about their own worlds to manage it. But far be it for him to knock an idea down.]

It'd be an ambitious project. Maybe you'd be better suited for it.

Me..? [ for a few moments she's actually quiet, as if she's thinking about it, but then shakes her head to herself. ]

I think I'm better at reading than something like that..

'Think'? If it's something you think you wanna do, you should try it.

But.. there's a lot of things people would like to do, but can't do, right..? I bet there's a lot of people who'd like to go to the moon too, but that isn't something they can just try..

[He laughs a little, warmly.] And there are some things that are easier to do than fly off into space like that. Making a map? That's something a little kid can do in school, like I did.

[Or attempted, rather. He was always too lazy to finish.]

It doesn't have to be perfect. And we got a library here, with plenty of references at your disposal. I think there's a few maps in there that can even get you started.

Do you.. want to see a map that badly?

[ she's pondering, though. ]

That would mean talking to a lot of people about it, though..

[He actually barely cares, but it seemed like something she was interested in.]

Sure. If you make it, I'll take a look. I bet other people would be interested too.

Maybe I'll do it sometime. For now there's a lot of books to read here in the library, though.. [ she's making her way through all of them at this rate, really. ]

Tch. You ain't kidding.

... Don't you like reading books as well?

'Like' is a strong word. [He has a lot of books, but he's not a big reader. He usually goes to them when he needs something.] The ones with pictures are cool.

I really, really like any kind of book at all. [ apparently she's making the 'like' even stronger.. ]

Reading is my hobby.

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