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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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[zouichi]

Zouichi was here to search for documents on gardening, but he was pleasantly surprised to see someone he knew in the Library. Sakura seemed to be hard at work... medical texts, maybe?

"Sakura. How have you been? I understand Medical has been working its staff pretty hard."

[haruno]

Sakura looked up from her omnicomm, smiling as she registered his voice. "Nice to see you, Zouichi-san." She laughed in response to his question, sounding more tired than she wanted. "I think you might be answering your own question. Medical's been working overtime, and the rest of us along with it."

For some reason, this seems to brighten her up. "With the Clock on board, at least that part's out of our hair. Now it's keeping everyone aging down out of trouble and well cared for, on top of anything else cropping up due to accident, confrontation, or anything else."

[zouichi]

"Well, that's timely news -- I just escorted a newly minted nine-year-old out of Medical." Which hadn't left that particular crew member with an awful lot of grace time, actually. "Actually, you know Akiyama Ren, don't you?"

He glanced at the Omnicomm in her hands. "Looking up medical texts, or just here to do some light browsing?"

[haruno]

"More light reading, actually." Wall construction counted as light compared to what she usually browsed through. "I've got actual books to work through still at home. Nothing really beats the weight of a book in your hands, turning pages on your own, that dusty scent of older paper..." She trailed off, ending up smiling.

Ren, of course, was very familiar to her. "Ren's one of my roommates. He just woke up recently. Did you take him back to the Teahouse? Was Phillip with you at the time?"

[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?"

[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.

[radiantcourage]

The conversation she had with Zetta triggered Hoshi's curiosity on the exact origins of beyblading. She knew it was a complicated form of beigoma, where the roots were, but how much more was out there to know about her sport that she loved so much?

Well, there was only one thing to do and that was to investigate! And that was what she was doing in the media library, just puttering about.

Seraphiel was perched on one of the shelves, watching his beyblader with interest. It seemed that she was really focused on something, which he found to be nice. Maybe that Phillip human had something to do with it...

[haruno]

Sakura sighed, putting her omnicomm away for the moment. At least she'd found her answers regarding wall construction, if she couldn't do much with the knowledge now. She stood and started moving through the media library.

What gave her pause wasn't so much seeing someone else using the library as seeing someone else with odd accompaniment. "Are they with you?" sounds like an odd question, but from Sakura's point of view, looking between Hoshi and Seraphiel, it was valid enough.

[radiantcourage]

By now, Hoshi already had a few things to sort through regarding what she came here to do. She turned around to search more when she noticed Sakura.

And, well, she decided to walk right over to her, a pleasant smile on her face. "Hey there! How are you?"

Her holy beast was right beside her and was perched on her shoulder for now.

[haruno]

She glances between Hoshi's holy beast and Hoshi herself. "I'm well," she said, smiling. "How are you?" It wasn't a lie -- Sakura really was well, all things considered -- if it politely ignored any of the countless things she actually felt. Tired, useless, frustrated, irritated, curious; there was a laundry list of possibilities.

[jesus_is_gundam]

Well, somebody was up and about today. Whether or not he should be was a different argument. But its not as if one ever did any strenuous physical work in the Media Library, of all places, so he probably wouldn't aggravate his injuries here.

He walked past Sakura quietly, and settled into one of the other terminals. There was something he needed to look up...

[haruno]

She didn't look up at first, registering someone moving near-by, but without any particular damaging intent. Or at least nothing focused on her.

Looking over, she blinked in surprise as recognition struck. "Seiei-san?" He'd been "discharged" recently, if his progress had mostly been physical. "How are you doing today?" Turning to better face him, she let her omnicomm sit un-looked at on the horizontal surface of her terminal.

[eradicating_war]

He raised an eyebrow as he looked in her direction. He didn't think he was that much older than Sakura that '-san' needed to added. He was only twenty-thr--

...one. He was only twenty-one.

He glanced away from her briefly, wondering how he could possibly be confused on his own age like that. He pushed that thought aside as he looked back at her.

"Haruno Sakura." Well, at least he was back to his more usual way of saying 'hi' to people.

[haruno]

Old enough to be a teacher. Besides, at a perpetual sixteen for now, everyone felt older in a way that was hard to define. Then again, her agemates my and large didn't all feel like the peers they technically were.

He hadn't answered, but the return to how he'd addressed her in prior meetings is at better than it had been. "Still my name," she said in turn. It almost made her smile. He was one of the few people to use her name in full.

Yet he hadn't answered her question about his health, and so she asked something else for the moment instead. "What are you looking for?"