"He's had a long day."

"I've never heard him produce so many words in a row before."

"Really?"

"He pretty much doesn't talk, even when we've been on missions together? Like, he has ever gotten in trouble for shutting down and flat out refusing to say anything to Orochimaru-sama, though that was mostly when he was new."

"Gosh. Maybe he'll like electronic messages better, some people do."

"I think that's why he told the queen he'd produce a written report, yeah."

"Next time he turns up I'll give him a computer. And in the meanwhile I'll get your kana mapped to Japanese ones for a hacky way to type."

"Let me know if I can help, though otherwise I think I'm going to settle in to read some of this..."

"Enjoy! I'll send you the packet over wireless when I've got it usable."

"Thanks."

And she goes to settle in one of the more public seats - so talking to Sasuke after he leaves his apartment won't require being creepy - to read.

(Wow, the Uzumaki sure liked their complicated archaic and obscure words... She does need to get up to request a dictionary - she can name a good one - and a way of taking notes, but otherwise she'll be able to entertain herself for a few hours.)

It's less than an hour before there's a little message that says "font pack! tap this then tap the blue button." in the corner of her screen.

Oooooh, that'll be helpful.

She does so.

This enables her to type in local kana when she's doing anything that calls for typing, and starts a process with a longish progress bar.

Might make things easier for later if she figures out how to attach searchable notes to the assorted books and scrolls...

A little trial and error figures this out. Also, any existing kana in the library is being converted into the font pack to make it searchable, though the characters are still images.

Fun!

She annotates liberally, and keeps reading.

(It'll be a day or two before she's confident in applying chakra-concealing seals to the outside, though, partially because she does actually know what 'caution' is, and partially because there's a lot to memorize. Still, she's focusing on those.)

Once Cam's done the font pack, he sets up a corpus to get going on machine translation, goes and sits outside so he will see his diplomats and historians coming, sips hot coffee, and attempts to conjure local newspapers for a cursory assessment of what's up in the world.

Land of Snow news is mostly about various recent technological advancements, or praising the Queen, or a historical monument to the lives lost during the tyrant's reign, or the rebuilding of Kazahana Castle, or think-pieces speculating about if Lightning and Fire will go to war or just keep glaring at each other (the opinion is that since the Leaf helped the Queen get into power, obviously we wouldn't ally with Lightning, but that really we should be keeping out of any potential wars, and the Queen is wise and knows this). Snow doesn't have much in the way of international news, unless there's an outright change of leadership somewhere.

Broader news is concerned with missing people, or terrorist attacks, or the release of a new installment in a famous book series, or local festivals, or the installment of new hospitals across Fire, or what-have-you. The nation they'd fled - Land of Rice Fields - doesn't have newspapers. The Land of Water also doesn't have newspapers, but their neighbors are speculating on the outcome of them being in a civil war - which apparently went very quiet a month ago.

After an hour he can hear a steam locomotive approaching from the direction of the port they left.

He puts down his paper when the train approaches.

There's no foreign diplomats in the group - they instead consist of three historians, a cultural anthropologist, a doctor with a focus on infectious diseases who happened to be passing through, and one engineer, plus a few students recruited as assistants. Apparently the Queen's planning on sending more people, but anyone who couldn't just be pulled from the college will take more time.

What a delightful assortment of people! Cam introduces himself and invites them into the warm apartment building; it has a conference room. "Thank you all for coming!"

The historian who seems to be in charge smiles as they all find seats. "Thank you for having us. I'm Sagami Mariko," and she introduces the rest of the crowd. "In the interest of full disclosure, I'm also trained as a shinobi, though my focus is on research and development of historical techniques."

"Well, if you'll take any ninja fights outside, we'll call it good. My training is all from another universe but I am in that universe's context qualified in medicine, and all the kinds of engineering necessary to make buildings plus software engineering, plus extensive layman knowledge of that universe's last hundred and fifty years or so of history and scientific and cultural development and spottier information on things that happened before I existed. Also I can play the violin, but I don't expect that to come up."

"Is your species naturally long-lived or immortal?"

"Immortal! It's a sweet deal. But there's humans around too, that's why the medical training."