Thirty-First Flame-[Action and Voiceish]

[gogglesyndrome]

[Even though it's Saturday, Taichi's sitting out in front of the school with several of the maps of the village that he took from the welcome center. He has his journal open, but he seems to be hard at work instead with a blue marker in his hand, hovering over some of the maps and marking them with lines and circles. He also has placed three pebbles on each of the maps to move them around in the paths he's creating.

He should be doing Brigade stuff, but this is clearly more important. After a bit, he crumples up the map he's currently working on and tosses it into the slowly-growing pile next to him.]

Man. When the heck did the village get to be so big? [Annnd back to another map to try plan B. Come bother him?]

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[He doesn't look up from his work just yet]

I'm trying to figure out the fastest and easiest route to get from our house to the new building we might be moving into. But there's trees and other stuff in the way.

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should just try walking over to it through them? Maybe there's a path we don't know about.

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Maybe...but that's a lot of stuff to carry through the trees, you know what I mean? [And here he's pointing to a map on the ground, moving the pebbles on that one] I want to get it done in one move, if we do it.

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

We might need a lot more help for us to bring everything at one time.

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

See, that's why I'm making a map to figure out the best route! That way maybe we won't have to have extra help or more than one trip.

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

But how will we bring it ourselves?

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Carry everything. Maybe I can find that wheelbarrow from last summer to help with the heavier stuff. What do you think?

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be a lot of help!

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

It'd have to be a day when it's not really rainy either. And even after the rain it's muddy, so I'm finding the shortest and fastest route.

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

Can I see?

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

One of the maps, or the route I have?

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

Maybe if we work together, we can pick the best one.

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Have a seat, let's see what we can figure out. [And he's busy picking up his maps and setting all of them in his lap so Kari can see them]

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

[And she'll sit right down next to big brother and peer over at the maps, lightly tracing over some of the possible paths with her finger.]

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

At least the map's pretty easy to read, right? [he's just watching what paths she's tracing though]

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

Uh huh. It looks easy enough.

What about this one that goes by the school? I don't know if that means there are a lot of trees there, though...

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Maybe we should figure out which ones look good and then walk through them before we start moving stuff, because I don't know what that means either.

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[cherishedlight.livejournal.com]

We could just try them all, right?

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[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

That's the spirit! We'll just try everything and hope it all works.