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[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

[If you have a keen nose or happen to be passing by the spaceship, if might become apparent that someone's spent the better part of the day baking with maple syrup. (Adversely, if you happen to be inside the spaceship, chances are good you've already found the freshly baked stash of maple cookies big enough to feed the Royal Canadian Air Force (circa 1946, though) and are stuffing your American face.)

Should the maple not entice you, maybe the young nation in braided pigtails and an oversized sweatshirt repeatedly whipping a small rubber ball at the side of the spaceship will. With the stick in her hand, she catches the ball neatly no matter which way it bounces back to her, running back and forth to catch it, only to jerk the handle of the lacrosse stick, sending the ball soaring back to the outer wall of the spaceship once more.

It's obvious Canada is taking this as a serious bout of training, cursing those rare times she misses. It's been too long since hockey season ended for her and she's gotten slack at finding people to play lacrosse with her. She misses being able to pour herself into her national sports, letting herself get caught up in the fun and comraderie of the game, whatever it happens to be.

What probably isn't obvious is how sad, homesick, or absolutely tired of being forgotten she is.]

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[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

You're getting there. Let's see if you can catch it and throw it back this time.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

Y-you've just been doing it for a long time! [She is good at some things......]

W-well, okay...

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Only a few hundred years. But don't worry, I had to learn, too.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[She doesn't so much catch and throw it as hit it like she was trying to slice it in half sword-style.]

It's only been--no more than fifteen minutes for me...

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

You're still doing fine, though, I promise.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

Who do you play with at home?

[Managing to make the next one more like an actual catch-and-throw.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

My people. We have tournaments and things like that. That was great, by the way.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[She's starting to get the hang of this part, at least.]

It sounds like fun.

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

It is! I play a lot of games with them that way. Sporting events are big social events in my place.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

It's mostly children who play these sorts of games when I'm from.

[She overcompensates for the distance and goes all sword-smacking on it again.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

I remember that. It's gotten more to be a whole community thing in the last hundred years or so, for me, though.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[Getting back into a catch-and-throw rhythm.]

So three hundred years for me... [So behind everyone, sigh.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you'll get there. In my time, you're very good at basketball and rugby, when you play. Far better than I am.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

Basketball and rugby?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Two team sports involving balls that I'm not terribly good at.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

Maybe I could learn them while I'm here. ...Do they all involve sticks with very shallow pouches? [She isn't sure how long she can take dropping it.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

No, neither one of them have sticks. Most games don't. Only my favourites, it seems.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

What else do you play?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Hockey, mostly. You're pretty good at that one, too, when you want to be. I play with Russia quite a lot.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

[Lithuania winces a bit at the mention of Russia.] How is it played?

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Well, you're supposed to play it on ice, wearing skates so you can move. And there's this little black, round puck that you pass around with a hockey stick, trying to get it in the other team's neck.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh, that sounds fun. [Skating she can do, at least in winter.] I mean--not that this isn't fun, but I do know how to skate, and with this... Um.

[She flusters a bit, fairly characteristically for modern!Lithuania were she from then.]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

This sport is sort of universally hit or miss, I know. M-maybe it would be worth the effort to make an indoor rink, that way we could play. There may be other people here that skate, too.

[rueandwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it would be fun if I knew how to play... Ah, that would be nice--how would it last, though, without melting?

[You modern nations and your modern technology get off her lawn etc]

[welljustwatchme.livejournal.com]

Well, you start off with concrete and then pipe in things to freeze it and make sure it has a roof so it doesn't melt and resurface your ice every so often and it'll last as long as you need it to. There's no real worries about electricity waste here, as far as I can tell, so I don't see why it wouldn't work.