text; transport service announcement

[encourage]

Happy New Year, according to the calendar in use in Exsilium. May the next year bring glad tidings.

To anyone interested in learning basic self defense, I've spoken with Police Commissioner Sorenstam and will be starting classes through the station for any willing to attend. It's open to everyone, which means rubbing elbows with the exiles who live here, and provided cost free.

Classes will be running Mondays and Wednesdays at 0800, 1000, and 1600, starting the 21st.

- Haruno S.

Comments

[futurarex]

Something to do with when a child's first name is actually given, I think, but I couldn't say for certain.

Anyway. It hardly matters, it was only a point of curiosity. What is your country called?

[encourage]

Ah, it's called the Land of Fire.

( She's concentrating on having this be a translated statement. Kohonagakure was more correct, but it was lost in a jumble of unrecognizable sounds to most. )

Most of the countries where I'm from have similar names after elements of nature.

[futurarex]

Hopefully not named for elements that are common in each countries.

[encourage]

We do have fairly impressive cooking fires...

( Though she smiles. )

The Land of Rain is known for rain. The Land of Earth is on as much earth as the other lands. There's not always a correlation, but it's not beyond reason to assume there is. In this case, the idea of fire is more a lifestyle and belief than a literal reality.

[futurarex]

[he actually smiles slightly at that cooking fires joke (if you can call it a joke, but it mostly is).]

And how is fire a lifestyle if it's only used to cook with?

[encourage]

We're chefs by profession.

( In her mind, she's clearly not serious, bowing her head at the end and laughing, soft and breathy. )

The idea of being both a force of destruction and rebirth is fairly common across cultures. If you did want to discuss what the will of fire means to me, I'd be glad to, sometime away from this.

( She taps on the screen. )

It's a bit more personal than this allows it to be.