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[skulljokelol]

[It has been a difficult week, and Brook is finding it difficult to sleep. As he is wont to do when this happens, Brook is looking for distractions. Around four in the morning he leaves the house for a long walk, so if for some reason you happen to be out near the edges of the forest, you might run into a skeleton. He'll probably be out there well

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[one_green_eye]

[Ginko has been sleeping in the forest of late, with the good weather. He woke with the sun-- and has been slowly meandering his way back to the town for some food.

Perhaps their paths will cross while it's still early, near the forest's edge.]

[one_green_eye]

Beat you to it? [The image conjured up is charming... and Ginko can't help but smile at it. Though he wonder's if by "old crew" Brook is indeed speaking of another lifetime, as it were. But it seems a thing he shouldn't delve into.]

[skulljokelol]

He would get overly excited once he saw anyone moving on the deck, and would chirp until everyone else was out of bed. Admittedly, the crew preferred that wake up call over mine. [Seeing as Laboon's was cute (so long as it wasn't in the middle of the night), and Brook's was designed to intentionally irritate.]

[one_green_eye]

Heh... I've never heard of anything like that before. [he's visibly intrigued just at the thought of it]

How far did he follow you?

[skulljokelol]

Ah... farther than he should have. Such a stubborn boy. We tried to tell him that he needed to stay behind more than once, if only for his own safety, but he didn't like that at all.

He wound up following us right over a mountain into the Grand Line before we could convince him to stay.

[one_green_eye]

He sounds almost human ...[waaaita minute. He pauses in his steps] --did you say "over a mountain"?

[skulljokelol]

[His head bobs, nodding.] The dangers of the Grand Line are apparent from the very beginning. To get to it, you have to sail over the ocean current that climbs up Reverse Mountain. It's a very perilous journey.

I mentioned that Laboon was stubborn, yes? But you speak correctly - for an animal, he behaved more humanely than some men I've met.

[one_green_eye]

[a low whistle] Water doesn't generally flow upwards in my world. [but he remembers Sanji's outline in the earth, when he was explaining how All Blue shouldn't really be possible]

He must have been very stubborn. And he made it over safely?

[skulljokelol]

More or less. He had a few wounds from where he hit the rocks, but we bandaged those up proper before we left.

[Brook hopes they weren't the beginnings of the mess of scar tissue that he saw during the thought bubble experiment.]

[one_green_eye]

....left?

[he thinks about this] But then, Nami and Sanji did say that the Grand Line is pretty unpredictable. [glances] Probably not a place for baby whales, neh?

/have wifi, will backtag

[skulljokelol]

It would have been much too dangerous for him. It was a difficult decision to make - he was as much a part of the crew as I was - but it was the right one. [He knows that better now then he did when they first made it.]

/o/

[one_green_eye]

[a hum of agreement. Sounds like it, from what he's heard.]

Did you part ways for good, that day?

[skulljokelol]

No. [He doesn't even need to think to answer that.]

We promised that we would return to him. I haven't fulfilled that promise yet, but we will meet again.

[It's been eight months in this place. If it weren't for Luceti, he'd nearly be there.]

/really needs to get a computer 8[

[one_green_eye]

[a hum. And he echoes something Sanji told him, what seems like a long time ago--] You all have different things you're looking for...

/needs better nets || I FEEL YOUR PAIN

[skulljokelol]

You mean the crew? [Some of that light air leaks back into his voice again.] Yes, we do. Things that we need to find, goals to accomplish, promises to keep. We're a ship of dreamers.

...My ambition is to meet Laboon again, at that promised cape.