Tilling the Soil (invite: Cody)

Tokyo City was amazing! After a long day of classes and (seemingly fruitless) hero training, the big metropolitan area was just the thing Kit needed to entertain himself until curfew.

Each skyscraper seemed to endlessly extend into the sky, there were more people in a single city block radius than there were in Kit's entire hometown, and the flashy lights of storefronts and billboards did their job of catching the eye. Even the ordinary hustle and bustle of the city, which often annoyed those familiar with it, were something unlike anything Kit had ever seen. Bumper to bumper traffic seemed like a fairy tale to a boy who was used to seeing less than five cars at a time, yet here it was! The undersized teenager couldn't help but bask in the overwhelming presence of such a metropolis. If he hadn't been on a mission, Kit may have even allowed himself to get lost in awe.

Thinking of the "mission" brought Kit's attention back to the task at hand. He had a letter to deliver for back home. ASAP. It'd already been over a month since he'd arrived in Japan to attend UA, yet he hadn't contacted home once. Ma had to be worried, but what could Kit say? Everything about the foreign country was just so awesome! Every time he'd gotten ready to mail the letter, something else would happen that made him want to write it down and document it for his family back in the States. Thus, the note enclosed in the envelope was several pages long.

Among the masses, Kit stuck out like a sore thumb. Well, kind of. He got lost within the crowds due to his height, but his ethnicity and bright eyes made him unlike most of the other individuals within Tokyo City. Plus his jeans, flannel shirt, ball cap, and backpack all screamed tourist.

Kit thought he'd been going in the right direction, but after passing by the same McDolans for the third time, the teen realized he needed to reconsider his strategy. He stepped aside into an alley and slung his backpack off his shoulder, which he dug into for a few seconds before he produced a map. Yes, a real, physical, paper map. The map was about half his size once he fully unraveled it. It had some pencil marks on it from the train station to the post office based on the research he'd done before leaving the dorms, but the map was not detailed enough to include the McDolans or any other businesses for that matter.

He twirled the paper a few times to try to get a different look at it, but no matter which way he spun it, he wasn't sure if he'd taken a left one block too early or a right one block too late. That confirmed it. He was lost.

Kit rubbed the back of his head as he looked out at the sea of people that marched around Tokyo City. Seeing no other options, the innocent boy started pulling random people aside to see if they knew where to go for the post office. A lot of people shrugged the kid off, but a few people did take time out of their busy schedules to entertain the boy.

Every time he pulled somebody aside, he had the same greeting and question prepared, "Hi there (sir/ma'am), do you know how to get to the post office from here?" It was a simple question, but most of the people just pointed in the general direction or gave a poor description of how to get where he needed to go. Some tried to use the map, but since most were familiar with their phone app, the ancient innovation seemed essentially foreign to them.

Still, he was already so close. He couldn't give up now! So, Kit continued pulling people aside and asking for directions until somebody told him some useful information.