"You hadn't really expressed the others yet."

"Fair enough."

"There's the library, but you need clearance to access anything really interesting. Sometimes walking around the docks is nice, you can see odd things from time to time. Or see if anyone's practicing a big jutsu over the salt marshes."

"There's a civilian library, too, but it's mostly fiction and some like super basic nonfiction."

"Well, I've never been to Kiri's libraries at all, let alone with a genin's clearance. Perhaps I'll wander by. And the salt marshes and docks absolutely sound fun."

"Where are you staying?"

"I've been in a motel the last few nights, but it sounded like they'll either put me up in the orphan dorms or give me a housing stipend?"

"The dorms are... basically functional."

"Yeah, I figured."

"Bet the stipend will be better, and then I can pool it with any money from missions for a nicer place if I wanna... Or me and you could get a place with both our stipends - I think a two bedroom apartment's cheaper than two one bedrooms?"

"...Maybe after I've known you longer than a day."

Giggle. "Fair." Then she perks up. "Hey, sensei, can I opt for the stipend then crash with you?"

She glances at Sayuri.

Who shrugs.

"Sure. As long as it takes you to get sick of my schedule."

"Shinrei-sensei barely sleeps."

She laughs. "I'll fit right in, then."

Yep, Elaise made the right choice not jumping straight into that.

Onward to dinner, then? (She grins at Elaise.)

Dinner sounds good.

Amajina's stream of chatter has moved over to jutsu and jutsu theory, now - she's curious if Elaise has any favorites other than what showed up in the spars, and she finds the mismatches in their educations up to now entertaining. (Amajina is apparently very specialized in water jutsu, though it sounds like now that she has more control over her life she wants to branch out.)

She's focused mostly on her bloodline, other than the basic control exercises the academy taught. It's versatile enough she hasn't felt the need to investigate elemental manipulations yet.

"What about jutsu not for direct combat?"

"...Not really a focus."

"I want to learn a bunch of those, too, though I guess my focus is yeah on being less disadvantaged away from water."

"What ones did you want to learn?"