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Hikage

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[Hikage. Please. Your previous picture was probably clearer??

At least Subete has something to amuse himself with in between staring at waterfalls and hopefully not tripping over small children. The problem with touristing on Saturdays..... Truly Marona is the better path here.]

Haha, well. As long as you don't get lost in the woods forever, you don't really need to remember all these trails. But I imagine Marona has that well in hand.

And it's really impossible to recognize individual trees like this.



[Small call out because he can.]

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She does. But I wouldn't get lost regardless, I don't need to know the name of the trails to know how to navigate them.




[ You can practically hear the huff. After a slight delay he sends along a close up photo of one tree trunk. That's better, right? ]

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Names don't help you navigate trails anyway. Usually. What are your tricks, then? Don't tell me you actually mark them?

[Why else would he be getting a paw and a tree!!! No he's definitely messing around. He..... sends back a picture of more trees from his end, though these have more people in them because waterfall neighborhood is crowded. What are they even doing.]

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What? No, I just have a good sense of direction. My mansion had plenty of twisting corridors and secret passages.

[ What does that have to do with a forest, Hikage. Even he has no idea what he's doing, but that's alright. ]

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What good mansion doesn't?



[What mansion indeed. But no, it's also tongue-in-cheek in other ways, as in, are their bases going to have a stupid amount of secret rooms and passages and things?? Why else would they be called bases. This is stupid and it's only going to get stupider from here on out.]

Is that right, though... I wonder how green it was?

[Look, he can't help it if you give him material this way!!!]

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Touche. I don't think that would have helped the Winchester house, though.



There was a sprawling indoor garden complete with a fountain. Yamato even lived there for a while.

[ Their base(s) will be ridiculous indeed. And Hikage doesn't know how to stop so this is fine??? (He still has no idea what he's saying here.) ]

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Indeed, it was a fragile little web of accidental secrets. We can do much better.

[Why is he like this. There is kind of a pause because he's probably trying to decipher why the cat can fire like. Lasers now or something. It's great.]



I'm sure there will be room for a garden outdoors, but if we do need to host someone who wants to room with plants...

[Why would they. Is he just talking about Marona's camouflage again. Who knows.]

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We can.

[ Why are they both like this. Also he has no idea why that cat has lasers? Or is just incredibly enthusiastic or literally anything else that cat is. ]

Who would that be?



As long as we have room for an outdoor garden, that's enough. It'd be nice to have tea outside in the morning.

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[......... why did you give him ideas for new stickers. Why did anyone allow this to happen. At least it matches the cat in terms of complete mysteriousness and bizarre enthusiasm???????]

Who, indeed. It's always good to be prepared for eventualities when you have the space to spare.

[Or. You know. They probably will have enough room for like 5 gardens and change. It's all good.]

That reminds me...

[Going to trail off here for now. Time for him to get moving.]

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[ Wow it's not like it was his intention. Rolling forward into the unknown continues. ]

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Tell me later--I don't want to get Marona home too late, I feel like Saphir would try to invite me over for dinner.



[ He'll be quiet for a while too because he honestly shouldn't be texting this much but like hell if he knows phone etiquette he's an old man. ]

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I did say to look forward to it later, didn't I? That said, if Saphir wants you over for dinner then he wants me to crash again, hmm?



[That is not even a mock-threat, he is just here to be smug over dinner plans momentarily before he pops off to radio silence again. Siblings gotta sibling, after all, and Subete has his own things to get to!! Some time later more towards evening, though, Hikage will get these two pictures popping his way.]

Wow. This is within walking distance of the hotel. Want to meet up here when you're done?

[This is probably a dangerous proposition because will they actually get to dinner with that many books involved.]

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[ It's not until he's started to bring Marona back that Hikage checks his phone again, smiling at all of this. He could just use a simple emoji to express what he's feeling but that's what stickers are for. ]



I'm sure it'd be something, but I already have my own plans for dinner. He's not the only one who can dig his heels in.

Really? I didn't think this place would have a library that big. We can meet there then, we just started to head back.

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The quality of the heel is a consideration too.



[He is biased as hell and not afraid to show it. Aren't they all?]

This is about the right size for a major metropolitan library. At least this city itself has some interesting features. We'll have to take full advantage.

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[ Oh. He's making a stupid face at this but a sticker will have to do. ]



Right. And that's why we're here: to take advantage of everything .

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[He is getting no reading done currently but that's fine; there will be plenty of opportunity to get stuck in this library in coming days, guaranteed. The real problem is that he’s getting used to these dumb stickers...]

Oh, yes. Now that I've had a look around the city and a few travel sites, we've got our work cut out for us.

[He sends a link to the local sake brewery because priorities. They might have plans, but there’s nothing saying they can’t have more options. He has a bigger list for later, too, of course. ☆]

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[ I mean, same. ]



We did want to visit an izakaya in the US, so we'll have to go.

If I'm lucky, Saphir won't be home when I drop Marona off. We could start early, then. [ Now he's just even more impatient, smh. ]

2/2 actually

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[ Sometime later all he sends is a single sticker. ]

1/2

[noneforall]

Looks to me like they have a pretty expansive menu and their own home brews, too, along with some interesting western-inspired drinks. Not a bad place to get a taste of how America does sake.

[Look at him talking like he knows what he's talking about when not that long ago -- give or take 20 years -- he was still dipping his toes into wine. Truly the house has been a terrible influence.]

Starting early sounds good to me, too. Let's see how sneaky you are, then.

[Did he have to make this a challenge, no. Is he having too much fun with this, maybe.]

2/2

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[... That being said, he finally (probably) gets a spot or two of reading done; and then this happens. The new emote seems a bit ambiguous, but:]

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trying



[ Suddenly, hieroglyphics. This has nothing to do with the fact that he's probably been caught, f. ]

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Hmm?

[Local emojis continue to be mysterious, or maybe he’s teasing while waiting. F.]

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caught

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I like you

wont change my mind

pointless

1/something

[noneforall]

[Oh. You'd think it would knock him off-kilter less the second time around in a day but the only reason his phone hasn't met another bad end is because mercifully, in a library the only thing he could do to it would be to drop it down one of the amazingly numerous stairwells.

Looks like they won't be going to Best Buy today, but it's still a little while before he musters:]

Well, that's good to know. (•́⌄•́๑)૭✧

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[A moment later:]