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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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[governorkang]

It didn't take long for Kang to get to the Media Library. He'd seen her from a distance on occasion; the pink hair was very noticable. He hadn't talked with her before, though. Belatedly, he realized that he hadn't gotten her name or given his.

"Ah, ma'am? Are you the one that wanted to know about Krynn?"

[haruno]

Standing, Sakura smiled and inclined her head forward in a shallow nod. "I am, yes." Moving over to Kang, she offered him a hand. It felt ridiculous, since he loomed a good two feet over her, but craning her head back to attempt to keep his muzzle and eyes in sight was better than staring at somewhere in his midsection.

It also felt a little like holding a hand out to an adult when she was younger, asking for them to lead her away. Far removed from her current sentiment, but present as a thought nonetheless. "My name's Haruno Sakura."

[governorkang]

Kang returned the nod, smiling, "Well met; I am Kang. Is Haruno your first name, or your family name?" Her name was distinctly Japanese, and from the Fairplay memories, he knew that in Japan as well as Korea, the family name was typically given first.

[haruno]

"It's my family name," she said, pleased that someone so distinctly not from her world also could recognize a trait otherwise brought up to her as Japanese. Not that being here didn't explain how similarities like that could exist, but it was nice to hear every so often. "Nice to meet you, Kang." Tone implied she was being particularly polite, where no suffix translated.

[governorkang]

"Sakura, then." Didn't that mean cherry blossom? Kang moved to sit down at one of the other chairs present, the end of his tail looping around his feet. He was careful with one of his wings; there was a small bandage on the membrane, covering both sides. "What got you interested in Hispanics in the first place, out of curiosity?"

[haruno]

She sat back down, a flash of annoyance across her face preceding any actual answer. "Someone making claims on their citizenship being half-Hispanic and unrelated to Spain." It was the simplified version of what she'd thought she and Marco had been discussing.

The care he'd taken with one wing ends up drawing her attention. Passing curiosity didn't really hold up in the face of trained observations. "How's that healing?"

[governorkang]

Kang had a feeling that it involved Marco somehow, from that annoyed look. Somewhat amused, he leaned back in the chair comfortably, "I take it there isn't a Spain on the world you're from? Or at least, you're not aware of it?"

He paused, and glanced at the bandage, shrugging, "It's fine. It'll be gone in about a week."

[haruno]

Good guess. Sakura shook her head, thinking over the maps of the world she knew from home. "Not likely. Maybe some country in a different part of the world is called Spain, but I'm not aware of it. For all the similarities we appear to share with the Earth country Japan, I'm not from Japan. The geography's all wrong, for one."

She nodded at his reply. "Fast healer?"

[governorkang]

"That isn't surprising. There seems to be a lot of similarities between the universes," Kang shook his head. "Faster than a human, at least."

[haruno]

Species differences. Sakura nodded her head, though it made her think about why Kang had come here in the first place. "Did you have humans on Krynn, too?"

[governorkang]

"Quite a few of them. There are also elves, dwarves, kender"--that one was said with a snort--"ogres, and minotaurs. That's not even all of them." Kang said. "I've had a good deal of experience with humans before this ship."

[haruno]

Sakura nodded, recognizing next to none of the species he was reciting. "I'm assuming all of these are," she paused, thinking of the word she wanted. "Sentient? On whatever level we're ranking ourselves." It was an odd scale she'd run across in some of the Media Library texts. Back home, they had no real equivalent.

[governorkang]

Kang nodded, "Yes, sentient. Where do you want me to start?"

[haruno]

She settled back, crossing her ankles and resting her hands in her lap. "Would it be out of place to start with you?"

[governorkang]

"Not at all," Kang smiled. He was used to others on the ship being curious about him and his kind. "What do you want to know?"

[haruno]

She wasn't entirely sure. "What do you call yourself, to start with." The summons back home had mostly referred to themselves as summons, if she felt that was a human construct they used to keep communication clear, rather than any set identity. They otherwise went by species name -- frogs were frogs, dogs were dogs, slugs were slugs.