[What he hears over the journals is what originally draws Shikamaru to this. The ratio of teenagers and adults to kids in Luceti is ridiculous on the best of days. It's something he misses about Konoha.
...homesickness is a common element for a lot of people here. Not that there's a statement he can open up with that doesn't sound like a cheesy greeting card. Sometimes you just need to find a way to take your mind off things, though, and puzzles he can do.]
YYHLYEYT [Nothing's written after that, not for a few minutes at least. Shikamaru taps his pen against the paper though trying to figure out the code, making a series of dots against the journal paper that begin to resemble ellipsis.] . . . . .
written;
...homesickness is a common element for a lot of people here. Not that there's a statement he can open up with that doesn't sound like a cheesy greeting card. Sometimes you just need to find a way to take your mind off things, though, and puzzles he can do.]
YYHLYEYT [Nothing's written after that, not for a few minutes at least. Shikamaru taps his pen against the paper though trying to figure out the code, making a series of dots against the journal paper that begin to resemble ellipsis.] . . . . .
[...aha. Not a code, maybe.]
Sequence?