on her phone. However, she was more noticeable if someone was to walk by.

hasn't visited Estonia lately and wanted to see how the young man was fairing. He had a small bag of breads and foods he had made for the

Baltic nation. He always worried that the Baltics weren't eating well enough. He saw the young woman ahead of him but thought nothing of it.

more focused on her phone to be distracted by anything else. Mostly she was just deleting ridiculous e-mails. When she actually puts her_

phone away, she's at her house and takes out a key to open the door.

perplexed when he saw the woman walking towards Eduard's house, but continues to follow her. He looked at the house numbers to make sure

it was the correct place.

opens the door and walk in. Just before she can close it, one of her pets go out the door after seeing the other person. She turns_

and picks the Italian pet. "What are you in a hurry for littl-" She spots the other and somewhat similar man. "Ah, hello?"

stares at the pet, then to the woman. "Ah… Is Eduard h'me?" She looked familiar; Perhaps she was one of the counties or cities here.

shakes her head a bit in a no. "I haven't seen him any time this last month. Why? Do you know him?"

"Ah." He nods, a dark look coming over his features as he worried about the man. He didn't like to tell strangers who he was, but she was

quite obviously related to Eduard, and he reminded himself that with the counterparts she could very well be the other Estonia. "'M Swed'n."

blinks before smiling at him. "Really? It's nice to meet you. I'm Estonia. Would you like to come in?"

debates it for a second before nodding politely. "Brought y' s'me food." He held up the bag; It was for Eduard, but if they were the same

nation he supposed it would be for her as well.

smiles a bit more. "Thank you. I can take that for you if you like." At which point, she places her pet on the floor before stepping a bit_

to the side to let the other in.

held it out to her and stepped in to the house, sliding his shoes off by the door.

takes it before closing the door and walking towards the kitchen while being followed by the pet.

looks curiously at the animal (if it could be called that) before following her to the kitchen.

places the bag on the counter figuring she could deal with it later. "Would you like anything?" she asks to him as she goes to the fridge_

knowing already what her pet wanted.

intrigued to see what the animal ate other than hair. "N' th'nks." He shook his head lightly.

takes out a few lettuce pieces on a plastic plate from the fridge, which had a few more heads of lettuce in it. " Are you sure?" she asks as

she places the plate on the floor. The animal says "Grazie" as he starts eating.

stares at the thing, surprised it ate lettuce. That was so… normal. He looked up at her, not having listened at all. "Hm?"

laughs a bit. "It's rather cute, isn't it? Anyways, I asked if you were sure you didn't want anything."

blushes a bit at having been caught off guard and not hearing the original question. "'M fine. Th'nks."

finds the blushing kind of adorable. She starts putting some of the food in the bag away. "So, anything else you have come all the way here

for?"

shakes his head and looked around the kitchen. "J'st t' see how Eduard's doin'."

kept the kitchen rather clean mostly just in case Eduard had come back. It's pretty apparent she's not quite used to somethings yet by the_

way she opens a cabinet to only find out she needed to use the one next to it. "I wish I knew the answer to that one. Though he's probably_

caught up with some sort of work thing if he's anything like me." Though she doesn't exactly believe it could be that, but it's her best

guess.

nods; so long as it didn't involve Russia he would rest comfortably at night. "Ah."

it doesn't involve Russia but believes it probably isn't. She only got into cyber fights with her Russia. Otherwise they left each other_

alone. "It would be nice to meet him soon though, but I guess it will have to happen sooner or later."

*...later at least."

"Ja." He agrees quietly. He was happy to have met his counterpart first. His eyes kept going to her pet. "Wh't 's th't?"

met Latvia first, so at least that was nice. "I'm actually not quite sure. I have a few of them, and I'll I figured out what nationality_

they are. I can't even tell the gender..."

blinks. "Th'ir nation'l'ty?"

nods. "The one over there is Italian, and then I also have an American one, a Canadian one, a British one, a Russian one, and a Finnish one.

"

"Ah." He nods. They were so strange.

they are strange too but still oh so cute. "I found some of them online too. It's like they just showed up all of a sudden."

"Onl'ne?" He would have to look them up later… He wanted one! They were so cute and squishy…

nods again. "Yep. The first one got lonely it seemed, so I went and got him friends. It was good they were online. I didn't know where else_

to look for them."

"Wh't're th'y c'lled?" He asked her slowly… He would look them up the minute he got home.

for a moment. "They usually go under the name 'mochi' after a food that looks like them. Though I have to really give these their own name._

'Mochi' is just a collective term, and I have too many just to call them all that."

nods, "Ah." That was a strange name. were they edible then?

probably has sort of tried that... unconsciously. "I'll probably name them later though. I'm not quite sure if they are truly my pets."

"Wh't're they m'de 'f?" She seemed to know more about them than America had.

shrugs. "For all I know they could just be blobs of fat. I know that whatever they are made of can expand greatly in a small period and_

can change colors by certain foods."

stares at her… It... changes colors?

tilts her head back at him. "What is it?"

shakes his head quickly. He should be going home… These things were weirding him out. "Sh'ld go h'me…"

isn't too effected by it. After the first week, she got used to them. "Ah, alright." He was only here to check on Eduard anyway, so it

-wasn't to much of a surprise.

starts to walk back towards the door, but turns awkwardly. "Eh… 'f y' ev'r need 'nyth'n'… y' c'n c'll us…"

follows behind a bit. She smiles at him. "Thanks. ... Us?"

nods. "Me an' Astr'd." He wasn't sure what Astrid's relations with Estonia were, but he didn't think she'd mind.

smiles more. "Astrid's here?" It didn't matter what Astrid thought of Eve. Eve thought highly of Astrid. "I'll make sure to remember that_

then."

nods with a small smile and pets her head.

places on a small grin. "I will see you later then?"

kneels down and pulls his shoes back on. "Ja… B' s'fe."

nods a bit. "I will." She always tries anyways. Going out late was exactly how to be safe, but he doesn't know about that.

be worried if he finds out about that… but she's a full grown woman, so he wouldn't say anything about it. "N'ght."

would try to keep that fact away from him. She doesn't like people worrying about her. "Night."