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[color=bc8dbf][h3][center]~Charlotte LaChance~[/center][/h3][/color]
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Cave...solution? Did she not know what a map was? That was...surprising. Well, perhaps not entirely surprising. She hadn't expected something completely detailed, but she had assumed that they would at least have some sort of...way of keeping track of the land or where they were. Even the neanderthals living in the frigid lands outside of Astril had a basic understanding of the land, how to travel it, etc. They weren't nearly as detailed as Astril's maps of course but...well. To say they even lacked this basic advancement...she sighed, shaking her head, not noticing the shorter womans flushing face.

[color=bc8dbf]"No,"[/color] Charlotte replied, holding a hand to her forehead. This was just abso-fucking-lutely great. No maps! [color=bc8dbf]"Its paper. A form of it at least. You know what paper is at least, correct?"[/color] That probably came out a bit more hostile than she intended. [color=bc8dbf]"A map is something you use to...record the landscape of an area. So you can travel it easier and remember where certain landmarks are the next time you go somewhere."[/color] She frowned, removing her hand from her head and walking over to the map and running a hand over it.

[color=bc8dbf]"This map, however...is almost as old as the tower itself. Its sorely outdated and using it to travel would be...difficult."[/color] If Cait didn't even know what a simple map was, then she doubted the 'Great Mothers' whoever they were would be of any more help. [color=bc8dbf]"Nothing more than legwork, memorization, and a little math to make sure the scale is correct."[/color] She grunted. Well...this was bloody great. She had expected to not have a map at all, but when she had run into Cait a small part of her hoped she would have a map. After all, it was something extremely basic any society would have, isn't it?  She shouldn't have gotten her hopes up, really. It was foolish of her to do so.

Sometimes, she forgot the rest of the world was sorely behind Astril in terms of technology...

[color=bc8dbf]"If you don't have one, it doesn't matter...I can make do. Always have."[/color] She grunted irritably, moving back over to the alchemy table where the solution that she had melted Cait's hairs in had finished bubbling. [color=bc8dbf]"I doubt your...Great Mothers would be of much help."[/color] It'd take the rest of the night for them to finish, and she had nothing better to do other than write and record a few things. 

She didn't feel like sleeping.