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]

[Oh hey there Molly, he wasn't expecting anybody to be near him. He looks up from his map-marking though and peers around the corner to look at her]

Nah, and it's nowhere near as big as Odaiba, but it's still a lot bigger than last year.

[punchandsleep.livejournal.com]

At least stuff mysteriously appears so that we won't be like sardines in a can. [Molly comes a little closer and leans against the wall beside him, folding up the playground plans for the moment.] I mean, our apartment complex got a loooot bigger.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed that. It's crazy isn't it? [He holds up the map he's got in his hand though] I want to know the shortest route from our house to this apartment. What do you think?

[punchandsleep.livejournal.com]

[She squats down to get a better look.] That's easy. [And with that, she points out a shortcut she likes to take.] Just take this path! It's kinda out of the way, but it's a lot faster than following these dirt paths.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Huh, I didn't even see that one. Is it clear enough to carry a bunch of boxes and stuff though?

[punchandsleep.livejournal.com]

It's just grass and stuff... And you might have to squeeze between these two houses, but it's not that cramped. [Pause. Boxes and stuff?] What're you gonna do with it, Taichi?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

My sister's almost nine, but she's still small. I don't want to drag her all over the place, and Daisuke's too much like me to focus long enough without direction anyway. [He shrugs and goes back to marking up another map, circling the path Molly's talking about] We're thinking about moving out of our house and into the apartment a bunch of the other kids moved into.