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[encourage]

Nara Shikamaru. Are you here?

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[bloodthirsts]

There's only been one female Prime Minister for my country. A couple Queens back when the monarchy were still in power. [And erm, opinions varied on how well Thatcher done there.] That's really different.

[encourage]

Right, monarchies, like the ones in England? Western European countries on Earth?

[bloodthirsts]

Yes, that's where I'm from. England.

[encourage]

What's England like?

[bloodthirsts]

Oh it's lovely! Not quite as damp as some people would have you believe. Certainly we've got a temperate climate, but we do get sunshine as well. [Grin.] Especially out in the countryside, green rolling fields and moors, some charming little villages too. Lots of interesting old castles.

[encourage]

Ones you've visited? It sounds... nice.

[ Like Splendor, once outside the main city. Where that egoist whose name she couldn't recall lived, who hadn't wanted her to help in fighting off a frenzied beast.

Ah, underestimated from the start. If he'd known her skills and still insisted... at least that would have been different. ]

Green rolling fields as far as the eye can see... What's a moor?

[bloodthirsts]

Yes. A lot of them on school trips when I was a kid. [Grin.]

A moor is like... very hilly, covered in heather and other plants. No tree's, very big and open.

[encourage]

I don't know that I've seen anyplace quite like that before. It does sound beautiful. Do you miss it much?

[bloodthirsts]

Oh yes, I do. Miss it a lot actually. I haven't been back there in... two years, really. [And things were so bad when she left.]

[encourage]

"Distance makes the heart grow fonder." I tend to think it just makes the dreams more poignant.

[bloodthirsts]

I know I'll get back there someday, I have to. It's just hard sometimes... it's too bad we can't leave the island. I bet England in this world is just as nice as back home.

[encourage]

How many years has the Island been isolated from the rest of the world, again?

[ "Isolated." ]

[bloodthirsts]

I'm not sure about that. I know it's several decades at least.

[encourage]

Hmm. What's the flow of information and goods like in and out?

[bloodthirsts]

I don't hear much worldwide news at all, it all seems confined to the city, likewise it's hard to tell what the outside world knows about the Port. Importing goods is possible, the Master of the house I live in managed to bring in soil from England for me.

[encourage]

You need the soil for a particular pre-existing condition? [ A pause. ] Or are you a particularly discerning gardener?

[bloodthirsts]

[She laughs a little.] Sort of the former, I'm a vampire. If I don't sleep in the earth of where I died my powers can weaken.

[encourage]

Ah, vampirism. There are so many varieties, I lose track of what sort necessitates what. I'm glad such trade was possible, for your sake, as well as any others affiliated with you.

[bloodthirsts]

Were there many vampires when you were last here? Me and my Master are the only ones of our kind right now.

[encourage]

There may have been. I wasn't taking a poll.

[bloodthirsts]

I was just curious that you didn't seem surprised about it.

[encourage]

Vampirism isn't -- new to me. Besides, what world doesn't have countless stories about the specifics of different forms of vampirism? Earth's China has a unique set of mythos from European nations, or those from other worlds.

[ Not to mention all vampirism she recalls being about blood. There were other things to drain from the living. ]

[bloodthirsts]

That's true, I've yet to meet anyone who hasn't heard of vampire full stop.

[encourage]

Rewind the clock some handful of years, and it would have been news to me, I admit.

[bloodthirsts]

I have to say, we have stories about ninja's in my world but they're not like anyone I've met from yours and Shika's. [Which pretty much amounts to... Sakura and Shika, cough. Also Hidan but she can't remember his name.]