I don't know how close to the beach we can find land like that. But we can probably clear something in the forest.
[Even he knows that this much sand isn't all that convenient for growing things. That's probably common sense despite everything. But he'll do his best to survey for growing land on expeditions... they probably need water, too, not a fake beach. What a fake beach, in more than one way.
At Haru's prompting, though, he's pulled out of his thoughts and looks down at the scroll he's half-unrolled; he holds it up a little so Haru can see the hints of a map, strange terrain and odd markings.]
These? They're maps. I don't know how many of these books I can read. So I thought I'd take a map.
[Ideally, there'd be a map of the island, but that's probably asking too much. Actually, if there were a map, he would have expected it to be provided already.]
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[Even he knows that this much sand isn't all that convenient for growing things. That's probably common sense despite everything. But he'll do his best to survey for growing land on expeditions... they probably need water, too, not a fake beach. What a fake beach, in more than one way.
At Haru's prompting, though, he's pulled out of his thoughts and looks down at the scroll he's half-unrolled; he holds it up a little so Haru can see the hints of a map, strange terrain and odd markings.]
These? They're maps. I don't know how many of these books I can read. So I thought I'd take a map.
[Ideally, there'd be a map of the island, but that's probably asking too much. Actually, if there were a map, he would have expected it to be provided already.]