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Characters: Britannia and yooou~
Format: action/prose
This log is: open
Location: Dock area in the evening, just before the sun sets.
Summary: Britannia's relaxing and has no one to bother. Yet.
Warnings: Nothing yet.

[Over on the dock, bare feet dangling over the edge, Britannia lays on her back with her pant legs rolled up and staring up at the darkening sky. Her shoes are next to her head, not that she seems to particularly care about them at the moment as she allows herself the undignified position in the absence of any human company. No, right now she's currently debating whether or not she should go bug Kiku or stay here and watch the stars come out. Surely there's no such thing as a curfew at this school, right? And especially not for her when she's a professor of all things.]

Oh, maybe I can get Kiku and we can watch the stars together. [The thought is brilliant, of course, a compromise. She could even get Antonio, Suzaku, Lelouch and England too. Except...] Hmm... they're probably all busy and it would take too much time to gather them up.

[Another sigh.] Oh well, I guess I'll just wait alone.

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[Ukraine will return her smile and move to stand beside where she lays on the dock.]

That is not good, I will remember that when I go back to the dorm. He seems much more shy than Kikyo, and she is very quiet.

[At that statement, Britannia gets this wry little smile on her lips though the amusement doesn't seem to reach her eyes.]

Hmm... that might be my fault. [What she means by that, however, remains a mystery as instead she chooses to sit up and dangle her feet out of the water, letting the evening chill cool her toes.] You wanna join me?

Hm. [Ukraine won't ask as to why Japan suddenly became a nervous shut-in but he has a feeling it comes down to something like that Russia did to the various Baltic states.]

Yes, I think I will.

[He'll move closer and sit beside her, pulling off heavy hobnailed workboots and socks before rolling up his uniform pants and letting his feet hang into the water.]

What do you think of being teacher here? I heff met many people who think they are smarter than are. Makes me wonder.

[She watches Ukraine get comfortable, the tension not easing out of her shoulders until his feet are in the water like hers are. It's not that she fears an attack, more that she's just cautious of one. The unwary get caught more easily, after all.

As she slowly slides her feet back and forth in the water, careful of splashing her companion, she looks up at the darkening sky and thinks a little about his question, before grinning.]

It's interesting. I've never taught anything before so I don't have much to compare it to, but it's pretty fun!

Yes? Well, I guess it is very interesting. I heff some students that heff never seen plants. Is very strange.

What are you teaching? I em sorry, my memory is not as good as it once was.

Fencing. [The answer is immediate and surprisingly non-judgmental in tone.]

Maybe you're becoming senile? How old are you anyway? [Because the Ukraine in her world is just over 1000, but nothing's certain in this place.]

Fencing is good subject.

I do not think em senile. [He'll look thoroughly unimpressed by that comment.] It would be better for younger nations to respect the older, but you have same temperament as Amerika. I em about 2300 years old but heff not always been called Ukraine.

Huh? Why would I respect you just because you're older? [She takes the comparison to America in stride once more, but there is a slight narrowing of her eyes at it. It's kind of insulting to constantly be compared to that weak colony, after all. One day she'd like to meet the America everyone is so fond of and see if he's really worth all this talk.]

... is it because you're really old? [Because to baby Britannia, Ukraine is ancient.]

Again, like Amerika. Respecting elders is lost on you, but is okie, you will just heff to learn hard way instead. [Ukraine will smile, he's had an upward battle himself for the past 2000 years or so, so he knows exactly the kinds of issues Britannia is likely to run into.]

But yes, it is because I em older nation. I heff dealt with more politics and seen how issues heff been resolved and can see other issues when they begin. But if you think I em ancient, you should talk with China, she is over 3000 now.

Why can't it be that I'm being myself? [Yeahno, two in a row isn't going to fly. The insinuation that Britannia is going to have to learn these things isn't lost, but in that typical childish way, she doesn't believe it'll ever happen. She is, after all, "invincible."]

So I should respect you because you have more experience? [This is the face of "I am not buying it."]

I suppose it is because once you know someone like that it is hard not to think of the other person. I em sorry, but it happens and other nations here likely will point it out.

[He'll run a hand through his hair and look over at her.]

In part, I em a nation that is mostly forgotten despite being one of the oldest so is okie if you think that my ideas are a bit old fashioned. But there is reason why I heff not vanished in over two millennia. Not like other nations that heff come and gone in only a few hundred years. Is sad, but happens, even as nations we are not invincible to politics.

[That part she knows, because they already have and they won't stop. Seriously, by now it should be easy to understand that she's a different country from a different world. Given, her entire culture is about adapting quickly to strenuous circumstances so maybe that's why she's already accepted that fact, but c'mon. How long does it take for something to get through to these guys?

Also, that is not something she wants to be reminded of considering she just learned that her next boss is going to utterly ruin her intentionally. Don't mind the dark look in her eyes as she purposely returns her gaze to the darkening sky above, resolutely not looking at Ukraine.]

Well I'm not going to unless you prove you're worth respecting. And it doesn't matter if you have more experience than me because that's not going to happen. I'm not going anywhere. [Hi, she is currently living in a state of stubborn denial.]

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