AN: The numbering scheme means very little (nothing's in chronological order).
2.
Hari had been wondering the Land of Rivers for some time now. In fact, she had been wondering the elemental countries for some time now as well. She was rather surprised. Usually, she didn't spend enough time in any given location to properly learn the language yet here she was, fluent and still meandering her way through what she imagined was a less feudal Japan. Her local Japanese was far from perfect, and heavily accented, but she found that it got the point across well enough.
Her living conditions however… now that was a completely different story. At first she had been content to camp out of her tent. Then she realized pitching it without a few disillusionment charms made her a target. Then she realized even if she did use a combination of disillusionment and muggle repelling charms, the ninjas, ninjas, could still hear or smell her, making her an even larger target on account of their shear paranoid curiosity. Finally, she stopped using the holly wand and began making judicious use of the elder wand and her cloak. It did wonders. It did even more wonders when she figured out she didn't necessarily need to actually use either of them.
It also helped that she stopped traveling down the roads. As a result, finding human society was difficult, yes, but not impossible. Thus how she had ended up finding the rural people she had painstakingly learned the local language from when she realized she was in for the long haul.
However, on the point of housing, she was not impressed. Not a single one of the villages she had come across had been able to present a decent mattress and fewer still had floors that weren't made of dirt. Then again, she was purposely avoiding large city centers so what did she expect?
Speaking of villages, she would need to stop in for a few supplies. A large number of the herbs she used in her ointments could be found in the wild but she couldn't conjure up food. A few 'omamori' here and there to promote good health and a few health checks would do the trick.
Now if only she could find another one of those villages. Housing aside, she was rather tired of game and root vegetables. And, to be honest, of the Land of Rivers.
