[Voice]

[mikangirl]

[She's not particularly in the mood for addressing the network, although she's a lot calmer than she was a few days ago. The horror's dulled, and the misplaced grief is gone (the orchard's still here, Bellemere's orchard, more soothing than upsetting now). The anger is still fierce, and so is the sense of violation, and not just on her behalf...

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[Voice/Private]

[goldenglasses]

I'll take some Nami. I'm not sure if any of us have had mikan before.

[Voice/Private]

[mikangirl]

[Vash. ...who was married to Vivi, she remembers now. Ouch.]

By all means. Just come with something to carry them in.

[Voice/Private]

[goldenglasses]

I'll bring a bag.

And how are you doing? [Just a general question to ask after an experiment like the last one.]

[Voice/Private]

[mikangirl]

About as well as anyone else. [Her smile is faint, but it doesn't quite reach her eyes.] You?

[fallenambitions]

[Tch, like he's going to bother with getting an invitation. It will be much later into the evening when he decides to go to the orchard, close to midnight almost. He had no reason to be there, but he found himself wanting to be there. Was there something there that could possibly give him peace? That's certainly the feeling he felt whenever he felt this need to visit the orchard. He doubts an orchard could do something like that, no matter how much that damn experiment gave him that impression

[mikangirl]

[She had wondered if any of her previous "family" would make it out this way; out of all of them, Alexei is the one she both least expected and least wanted. But what can you do?

Almost midnight means nothing; on her own and in the dark, Nami is awake. She doesn't sleep well in these sorts of conditions. Blame Luceti for that. She makes her presence known with an utterly annoyed voice somewhere well behind him.]

That tree didn't do anything to you.

[fallenambitions]

Does it look like I care? [It was an automated defensive response from him. How the hell would she know when he had his back to her? And here he was hoping that coming out here so late, he would avoid being pestered by someone.

He relaxes his hand on the trunk of the tree, his back still to Nami.]

I didn't think someone would be out here this late. [His tone was neutral. Unreadable.]

[mikangirl]

[His first response means she's not inclined to be polite. Her tone is cool.]

You thought wrong.

[hana_king]

[ Oh yay, Nami's proof of living of the day! ]

Want me to get some to bring back to the house?

[ Just in case those rabid Lucetians decide they want to take them all 8| ]

[mikangirl]

[It's a lie. She's secretly a zombie.]

...yeah. That's a good idea. [Also, she misses you. ;;] Do you know where it is?

[Because Usopp was one of the few that wasn't invited to the harvest DX Stupid, stupid experiment. Couldn't her crew have been just one happy family?]

[hana_king]

[ Say it ain't sooo. H-he misses you too, Nami. Everyone is gone. ;;

Also, this. ]

I'll know once you tell me.

[mikangirl]

[She doesn't know this, alas. ;; But yes, she'll draw a map. It's like a 30 minute stroll or something from their back door. |D Just go northish.] I'll be lurking around in the orchard. You can't miss it. There's a pinwheel on the fence.

[idkmybffroy]

Elicia and I would be happy to take a few off your hands! [ ...what, he likes fruit. It prevents scurvy, Miss Nami. ]

[mikangirl]

[...fff, she can't be mad at you. Or mad about you, more to the point. Nami gives him a faint smile.]

By all means. There's a lot to go round. D'you want to bring her up here?

[idkmybffroy]

Sounds like a plan to me. Any excuse to visit one of our beautiful new additions to the landscape is a good one, right? [ Plus you're fun. ]

[mikangirl]

...right. Besides, I know Elicia will love to see it's still here.

[savethelastchip]

[ Chouji holds some fantastical great debate about replying to this or not- he doesn't want to make her uncomfortable, and he's not exactly a huge fan of being uncomfortable himself. Sometimes people need space, and that's fine.

... and in the end it really just gets down to perfectly good fruit potentially going to waste, which goes against his natural Akimichi instincts. If she doesn't want to talk to him then he'll obviously just respect that. It's all about tact, Chouji. It's all about not messing people up. ]

I'll pick some up. [ ...ahaha. ] I-if that's okay.

[mikangirl]

[Oh hey, "son". She'd never met you before the experiment, and...oddly, that makes him one of the least awkward people in her life right now, apart from a faint desire to look elsewhere and laugh sheepishly and say sorry about that.]

More than. There's plenty to go around. [She even manages to get some warmth in her voice. :| No hard feelings, right?]

[savethelastchip]

[ A shared sentiment. ]

Oh, good. [ He was kind of worried that he'd get a politely-worded "gtfo" or something. And he really likes oranges, too, so that would be kind of a double-hit. 8|

...he can't not express concern, damn his emotional nature. ] I hope that you're doing all right.

[mikangirl]

As well as can be expected. [Her tone's dry though, not bitter.] What about you?