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[vytis]

[1. Lithuania has just learned he has a job at the bakery. This is news to him, of course, but he ends up going anyway, so if you happen to be in the bakery today, you can see him bustling about, baking things or sorting things or attempting to do both at once. Most are Valentine's Day themed, since that was what he was told to make.

Also, he made free samples. Have some. They are delicious.]

[2. After that, there's more exploring to be done, in the interests of not resting until the day he can walk around town without getting hopelessly lost in the identical streets.

That day is not today, as he is rather lost. Maybe he should try to find a map...]

[3. [1333 Benny Street] And now back at sort-of-home Lithuania has decided the house needs cleaning. If you have some reason to be in the house, he is cleaning all the things.]

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[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

[....]

I think I must have misheard you. I--I know you're from Lithuania.

[vytis]

A-and I'm the country, too. I know it's unusual, I can't really explain it...

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

[Nina just stares, at first.]

...I...I see. [Then she tries to smile.] Well, I guess that's not any weirder than being an alien or a robot or from the dawn of time.

[Actually, it is a little weirder. Maybe not much, though. People do talk about countries like they're alive sometimes, right? And maybe he's from one of those 'other worlds' she's sill sort of struggling to wrap her brain around.]

So do people live on you, then, or what?

[vytis]

No, no, I'm the same size as my people, it's just--I'm a representation? Of them. [why is this always so hard to explain]

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

I don't think I get it. I know you can have a representation of a concept, but then how can you, you know, talk? Or walk around? Or bake?

[vytis]

I--I don't really know, it's just how things are in my--world.

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

Oh. [Quiet. She feels slightly bad now.] I guess that makes sense. I'm sorry for interrogating you. It's just so strange...

[vytis]

It's alright, I guess I've just never really thought about it until people started asking me about it here.

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

Really? What, do you just hang out with all the other countries all day?

[vytis]

No, most of the time I'm working with my boss or out with my people. Well, Poland comes over a lot...

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

Really? Do your people know you're their country? [She smiles a little at the image of him and Poland just hanging out, though. Then her eyes fall, again, on the pastries.] You know, I probably shouldn't eat anymore samples, but I think I'd like to buy a half-dozen of the ausukes. If you don't mind?

[vytis]

My boss does, and the people I work with--ah, of course! [boxes six of them and then rings them up] Your total is $5.

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

Your boss? Your Prime Minister, right? [Gives him the money and takes it, smiling.] Thank you!

[vytis]

And my President, I have both. [smile] You're welcome!

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's right! Is it ever strange, being a country? I guess it must not be, if you're used to it.

[vytis]

I've always been used to it--it's stranger to me now that I'm not one. [which reminds him of how awkwardly detached he feels]