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[haruno]

Closing the last document she'd pulled up to read on stone masonry, Sakura sighed. She was pretty sure she had everything in place to start on repairs to the damage she'd caused, even if she wasn't sure there was anyone on ship who had a vested interest in caring. If it felt right to her to help remake what she'd unintentionally made a crater in

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[seesbosscrotch]

"I was hoping for the Silvermoon libraries and instead I get someplace that makes titan knowledge archives seem helpful," the elf complained as he prodded at one of the document readers. He DID know how to work technology, to a certain extent, but he lacked the overall familiarity with these devices to do anything functional. So he was using his usual tricks -- play with it till he accomplished something, or broke it. Either way he'd have learned something!

[haruno]

Sakura found herself looking around a corner to catch sight of the person she'd heard talking about libraries. Frankly, when she'd first come to the media library, she'd been expecting a library.

She'd ended up in a technological version that had been explained away and through by Vivio very patiently. Maybe it was time to pay that forward?

"Is there something in particular you're looking for? Maybe I can help," she offered, tucking her omnicomm away. Hispania would have to wait.

[seesbosscrotch]

"Oh, I'm just curious," he said cheerfully. "Archives of knowledge always have some pretty interesting stuff, and I have a certain love of history."

[haruno]

Tilting her head to the side, Sakura looked over the area. Most of what the Media Library had was in electronic form, and was bound to have countless histories if that was this person's vested interest. "Any particular kind of history you're interested in?"

[seesbosscrotch]

"Oh, anything! Before I became a meat shield and a mindless engine of death, I studied history, and the love never really leaves you, you know." He poked at the digital buttons on his record again, unproductively but surprisingly effectively for someone wearing plate armor, including gauntlets.

[haruno]

Sakura's eyebrows hiked up at his self-description. A mindless engine of death? That was a new one. "I do," she said, knowing her own love of largely trivial information kept her reading even while here. It's not that she sought out useless information, she read plenty of useful things, but it was hard to judge something as useful versus how interesting the material itself was in her opinion.

She found too many things to be interesting, in the end. "I've been reading up histories on Earth countries myself. Ever heard of a place called Hispania?" Was any of his button pushing generating results?

[seesbosscrotch]

"Nope, but then again, I've never heard of Earth," he said, still consummately cheerful. His random button-pressing had gotten him... back to the index. The Go Back button never failed even if he wasn't quite sure how to find anything else! "I'm from Azeroth myself."

[haruno]

"Azeroth?" Sakura came over to look at the screen he was on. "What's Azeroth like?" She then motioned at the screen. "Mind if I give it a go?"

[seesbosscrotch]

"Azeroth," he said, offering it up but making sure to keep it in his view so he could see what she was doing, "is a world pretty much destined to eternal war. Thank you, Titans, and your 'gift' of the Well of Eternity."

[haruno]

Sakura shifted to afford him an easier read of the screen. She typed in Earth from space, going for the kind of imagery they were treated to now when the ship was in planetary orbit. "The Well of Eternity is responsible for all of that?" 'That' being war, if this story reminded her of Ronnae's own. At least they'd had close to a decade and a half of peace back home. Imagining none at all was looking back into a history of unrest.

Imagining that as a world's destiny, so to speak, was harrowing.

Results started manifesting not long after she hit enter, a series of file names she mostly guessed were right because 'Earth' and 'space' were in the title. Selecting the first one, an image file of a blue planet (with some green mixed in) covered in swirls of white obscuring most the surface appeared on screen. "This," she said, "Is Earth. I think."

[seesbosscrotch]

"That looks sort of like Azeroth," he said, peering at the image. Of course, he'd never seen Azeroth from space, but the Titans DID like leaving around their large displays of the world lying around in some of the places he'd crashed.

"And yes, the Well of Eternity attracted the Burning Legion, and that pretty much lead to everything bad that ever happened on Azeroth, directly or indirectly."

[haruno]

"Your world has large oceans, too?" Really, it was the most startling thing in looking at Earth. All that blue!

She looked over at her armor clad companion, eyebrow quirking up. "The Burning Legion? Who're they?" Not that she understood what the Well of Eternity was any better, though assumptions could be made on name alone. Who knew if they'd be right -- she wasn't taking chances, without the proper sets of reading materials beforehand.

[seesbosscrotch]

"Quite large. There's a story behind that!" Everything on Azeroth had a story behind it, usually one that was tragic or violent. Funny how that works! "And the Burning Legion is basically more demons that you can possibly imagine. Think of them as the Ohm, except not as effective because THEY never destroyed Azeroth. But still pretty effective!"

[haruno]

A whole host of demons? Sakura blanched, not entirely able to keep her paling expression off her face. "Sounds like a pleasant bunch," she said, much quieter.

[seesbosscrotch]

"Oh yeah, they're tons of fun at parties!" Mar said. "Except for a pesky habit of constantly inviting themselves and as many of their friends as possible."

[haruno]

"And never bothering to offer to clean up or foot the bill for the chaos they leave behind, I'd bet."