Yadrolla System Mingle

[lacyprincess]

Who: EVERYBODY
Broadcast: Yeah, sure, I guess
Action: The Fleet and the Yadrolla System
When: 4/29 - 6/8

[Hey, hey, look, we have a new system! Let's go compete in stuff and root for sportsball teams! System info is here!

GO WAVES!]

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[watermarks]

[ Ah.

Um.

Heh.

WELL.

Katara pauses, because this is the sort of thing that requires of all of her concentration to handle, she hopes, just right. She doesn't want to have to explain in any sort of detail what happened to Nami in Luceti. She's not going to lie, but she wants to make it clear without getting into too many details. ]

There were good people there, and you had good friends. Your crew was there, but... a lot of them kept leaving. And a lot of things happened that were out of your control -- out of all of our control. Things got really bad for you there, Nami. And you kept going, you never gave up, and I really admired that about you. But I'm not sorry that you don't remember it.

[ Even if that means you don't remember me too. ]

[mikangirl]

[Well, that sounds all sorts of fun. She has enough issue here with her crew's absence, and the two brief visits before leaving only stung all the more.

She mulls over what Katara has to say. Partly, she still wants to remember. But she's getting the impression she's vastly better off not knowing.]

It's a pity I can't remember select things, huh? Like people.

[watermarks]

[ A quick smile, despite the twinge in her heart. ]

Honestly? I think the best thing about Luceti is getting to forget about it. It's bad enough that you were stuck in two places like this, it'd be horrible to have to remember three.

[ ...but she misses...

Katara glances down for a second before acknowledging: ] ...but it would be nice to be able to remember the people, even if it was in a dream.

[ So, thanks, Nami, she appreciates the thought. But if she never has to see you hurting in the same way she saw you hurting in Luceti, Katara will take that as a win. ]

[mikangirl]

[...dreams. That reminds her of Calibrations. Should she warn for those? Mention them? She hopes they don't return again, to be honest-- might be easier to let it go.]

Maybe it'll happen one day. The augment plays havoc with memory sometimes. Though I think it's unlikely; I've heard about other places I've supposedly been and I've never remembered a thing about them.

Did we have some good fun, too?

[watermarks]

We trained? [ That was fun, right? ] And one time I made a couple of giant tracks for sledding, and you agreed to test them out to make sure they'd be safe for nonbenders, that was fun. And... you had a mikan orchard stay as a result of an experiment one time. We'd harvest them, that was fun.

[mikangirl]

Ahhh, a whole orchard! [She's momentarily distracted.] Even if I hated the place, I bet I would have spent a lot of time there. I miss our orchard from home.

You know, Luffy was here for a few weeks? Right back at the beginning. He brought me some mikan seeds. [Her smile turns wistful.] They're near fully grown now.

[She's been here too long. But mikan trees are always a form of therapy.]

[watermarks]

[ Yes, that's true - Nami'd loved her orchard, even when Bellemere had disappeared and... yeah, the orchard had, without a doubt, been therapy. ]

Oh, really? Wow. [ She'd... definitely been here for a long time, then. ] Have they started bearing fruit?

[mikangirl]

Yeah. A while ago, though not many. They're starting to reach full load now.

A lot easier to handle than a whole orchard. That must have taken us a while.

[watermarks]

Well, you recruited help. [ She shrugs. ] The people in Luceti are - were a very helpful sort of people, for the most part. And you had a lot of friends, and people willing to do things for the mikans they could carry home.

1/2

[mikangirl]

Ah--! Of course, a whole orchard is far too much for one person!

[mikangirl]

...I bet I made a killing.

[You wanna break the news there's no money in Luceti or...]

[watermarks]

[ Uh... she does and she doesn't.

But overall, she decides that reinforcing that it's a Good Thing Nami doesn't remember Luceti can't do any harm. ]

Uh... I'm sure you would have, if Luceti ran off any currency. [ Pause a beat. ] There was no money there.

[mikangirl]

[watermarks]

[ It took several steps before she realized that Nami was no longer following. Katara turned around and gazed at her blank face with concern. ]

Nami? You okay?

[ ...it's possible that she underestimated what the impact of her words would be. After all, by the time Katara had arrived in Luceti, Nami had more than enough time to get used to the lack of money and seemed a lot more concerned with, well, not dying. She'd heard Zoro talk about Nami's obsession with money, of course, but... well, she ignored that, because Zoro was Zoro. This was not the reaction she'd expected. ]

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[mikangirl]

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...rebooting]

[mikangirl]

Right! Good thing I don't remember anything about Luceti. Let's carry on!

[TO THE DRINK STAND, CHARGE.]

[watermarks]

[ And so, off they went to enjoy cool drinks and be hot badasses? ]

[mikangirl]

[SEEMS LEGIT]