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[mikangirl]

[She spends most of the day out by the orchard-- sitting on the cottage roof, actually, staring out across the snow-covered orchard, wind whipping her hair into her face.  Not that she's noticed.  Nami isn't exactly sulking brooding, but... the events of yesterday have brought back home the sort of situation they're in.  Gilded or not, a prison is

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[shadedsunlight]

No.

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[mikangirl]

Fair enough.

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[shadedsunlight]

No one can... that kind of decision...

[It's not fair. But ah, life isn't fair. Keeping people here who don't want to be here isn't fair. Sending everyone back to their own world isn't fair. Nothing is fair because that's life.

Ginia suddenly doubts her voice, a voice she only has because of this place and the people here. She switches to writing.]

It's the sort of decision that shouldn't depend on one person. Who am I to choose everyone's fate for them?

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[mikangirl]

[Nami is surprised by the sudden change. But then, it's sometimes a little easier, isn't it? There's a ghost of a smile, and she writes back.]

I understand. It's a reassuring attitude, actually. Though I suppose I wish I could just hate the place unconditionally.

[It makes things much more simple.]

[ten_ofspades]

Nobody should be allowed to make that kind of decision, even if they do want to go home.

Regardless of who they are, they have no right to make everybody else's decisions for them.

So LJ thinks your tags are delicious.

[mikangirl]

[It's a point Nami agrees on, really. Still.]

What if that was the only option available for anyone to go home? We all go, or we all stay forever?

well they ARE pretty tasty

[ten_ofspades]

That's still not a decision any single person should make. Even if it was the only option.

I'm pretty sure that's like three times in a row or something

[mikangirl]

...

...I guess not. I guess you'd try and put it to a village vote or something. I mean, if you could carry one out pretty quietly.

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[mikangirl]

[That gets first a faint grin and then a curious look, because Bellemere hasn't mentioned you.]

Better than most in this town. I didn't know you guys knew each other.

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[mikangirl]

[...

...you know, something almost audibly clicks over here.]

Out of curiosity, did you attack my mother with a bat?

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[gomugomunopwn]

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I'll keep an eye out. I'll use Haki so as soon as she gets here I'll tell you okay?

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If I could beat the Malnosso's ass too? I'd do it in a heartbeat.

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[mikangirl]

Thanks, Luffy. [She knows she can count on you for that.

And she leaves this entirely private, because her next response shouldn't be seen by anyone else. It's not something she'd have asked him, but...]

...what about Ace?

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[gomugomunopwn]

Ace...

[He's actually thought about this before... There is a very long pause here, Nami.]

I'm so grateful I got to see him again. [...] But I can't stay here. Back home I have to live on for both Ace and Sabo. And here it doesn't feel like I'm doing that at all.

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[mikangirl]

[Man, you are like the only person who can reduce her to biting her lip and feeling small within the space of two sentences, cap'n.]

Where are you at the moment?

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[whydidisaverick]

This is probably going to make me look really bad... and selfish. But-- [...] I would take it.

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[mikangirl]

[Finally, a yes from someone outside the crew.]

Can I ask why?

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[whydidisaverick]

Because I honestly can't think of a reason not to... [As mean as that sounds...]

I admit that I can't speak for everyone in the village. But Luceti is only a temporary existence. Matter of fact, I'm pretty sure the longest anyone has stayed here is five years.

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[mikangirl]

...that's pretty logical. I hadn't thought of it that way before.

What's your name?