[Voice]

[mikangirl]

[Someone sounds a little tired.]

I know Okita already asked who was going home, but I'd also like to talk to you if you are.  I have a favour to ask.

Noel, are you healthy this morning?  I need to talk to you.

...James, you too.

And ... I'd like to talk to whoever runs the clinic when they've got a minute.  It's not urgent.

[Sneeze.]  ...bad

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[sniperkingftw]

[ffff and General Sourpuss comments on the scene. He'll get over it soon enough.] What's there to talk about?

Oi, you sick or something?

[mikangirl]

What do you think about what they said, Usopp? You probably got more of what they were saying than I did.

Yeah, just a bit.

[sniperkingftw]

[Well at least she'd asked for Chopper instead of ignoring it like some others would have. Clearly this isn't stopping her from wanting to discuss serious business, so it must not be too bad.]

[Hates to admit it, but-] Some of it sounded possible. About our being here having a bad effect back home. [Pause. Analogy tiems] You know, if you break a link on a chain, the rest of it falls off. If more than one of them break, it goes to pieces.

You can fix it, maybe, and put them back in, but it's not...not exactly the same as it was before it broke. It can look the same, and feel the same, and for a while it'll still work well.

But...somewhere down the line that chain will break again, and you won't be able to fix it.

[Damn if that isn't terrifying.]

[mikangirl]

[That is terrifying, now that she understands it. It's a long time before she answers after that, though the small cough a few moments later is probably enough to let you know she's still staring down at her journal. And then:]

We should probably discuss this off the journals. I'm in my room.

[sniperkingftw]

I'll be right there.