“He’s kind of a local authority, huh?” She wondered if he had been there as long as Sokka - though, to be fair, Sokka hadn’t been particularly helpful at first either.

“He said we teamed up last time I was here. I don’t remember anything from that time, though.” But, at the very least, it made her reconsider Shikamaru instead of dismissing him as a pest. That was something.