xp_logs | Rahne and Nathan, Friday evening

Nathan checks on Rahne, and they talk a bit about what did manage to get accomplished this week.

Rahne's door was mostly open, but Nathan knocked lightly on it before sticking his head in. "Are you resting?" he asked. "Because if you have a whole pack of Wakandan bureaucrats in there convincing them to do more of our work for us, I'll come back later and nag."

Rahne laughed aloud. "They offered! And you can come in and nag me now if you like."

Nathan pushed the door the rest of the way open and stepped in, giving the room - well, suite, really - a measuring look. "They're certainly putting us up in style," he said, before turning his attention to Rahne. "How are you feeling?"

"Well enough." At his look, she elaborated, "Och, well, my arm aches and I'm a little tired, but far less than I'd have expected, somehow. And I'm happy."

Nathan sank down into a chair, wincing. His back was definitely pushing the idea that horizontal would be nice. "You should be, bullet hole aside," he said, smiling at her. "You've been busy."

"Nyami's been busy!" Rahne resisted the urge to remind Nathan to rest in turn. "She did so much of the setting up. I asked all the questions I could -- as delicately as I could," she added with a slightly wry smile, "to make sure I understood everything as much as possible. It does feel a little strange to propose solving a problem by moving it somewhere else, but when land is part of the problem and it can be done...."

"In this case, you've got familiar cultural surroundings, as well as the available land... oh, and traditions that allow for welcoming these families into Wakandan tribes, which I think is important." Nathan's gray eyes were tired, but still sharp and thoughtful as they met Rahne's. "I'm going to talk to our team in Tanzania tomorrow, tell them that a Wakandan representative will be out there at the start of the week to coordinate things. This'll all rest on whether the families themselves are interested in the idea, of course."

She nodded. "Of course." Those were some of the things that had convinced her it was worth pursuing -- Bashenga and Nyami had been very willing to explain their own reasoning, and adept at explaining their own cultural background, which could so often be hard to see because you were swimming in it. "The whole cast of it is -- is an invitation. Moving them unwilling would be as bad as if the place they were going to was unwilling."

"We can still pitch in with the educational support we were going to offer," Nathan said, "which is another plus. I told John you all needed a bonus," he went on, his smile softening, "but I've got to say... I'm really impressed, Rahne, with the way you handled this."

She shook her head a little at that. "I really feel as if it just dropped into my lap. Not that it didna take working through, but -- well, I suppose in a way it was the same for them. They'd been wanting to offer this, and were looking for how to present it."

"You know what they say," Nathan mused. "It's who you know. Even when 'who you know' is 'who you meet by chance'."