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[Nami for her own part is content to either stay with her mother or go out exploring with Sanji for the first day or two she's home. It's bitterly cold out there and she doesn't like it much at all-- it's nothing like Cocoyashi-- and her feet are a little red from early barefoot adventures in the snow, but luckily she doesn't catch cold. She's more grounded and less restless than Sanji is, because Bellemere is here. And that means she can let Bellemere take care of things. Because after all, didn't mama say that they wouldn't be here for very long? She misses Nojiko, but if it's only for a little while, then maybe she'll just treat this as a holiday.

Then the second night passes, and Nami turns 10. And everything changes.]

[She's had nightmares before. And the last night was unsettling with the dreams she had, but they weren't bad dreams-- just ones that feel like she's lived a lifetime in one night. Or...one year, as the case may be.

The second night, she wakes up with a wail (muffled brutally by shoving the blanket up to her mouth, because nobody likes a crying human) and tears and her arm hurts but mostly all she can remember right now is Bellemere and the screams when they stepped on her arm and the blood and the way Arlong just shot her down--

die for your pathetic love--

--and everything that followed. And she knows why her arm hurts, but that doesn't make any sense, and Bellemere is right upstairs and Nami just spends the next ten minutes crying into the blanket and not daring to look at her arm. And when she can separate dream from reality just enough, she slides out of bed and doesn't even bother to dress properly, running for the stairs to the next floor in an oversized tshirt that hangs off her arms and going straight for her mama's bedroom.

She eventually falls asleep again and further returning memories distance her from the shock of that death, but none of them are good memories. And now she's confused to boot, because sometimes when she closes her eyes she expects to open them somewhere else entirely. And Nami grows to like the cold, because as long as there's snow outside, it means she's not at Arlong Park, and that means that maybe she can put it all aside as an especially bad nightmare and it didn't really happen. Because it didn't. Because Bellemere is here.

Anyway, distracting herself from darker thoughts is a damn good idea, really. Best to try and not think about it and just...stick with Bellemere a lot today.]

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[So in the afternoon, Luceti, there is a little girl staring back at you from the journals. And doing the most awesomely intelligent thing:

[Yeah. Because making faces at you all is really mature. She just wants to see how many people notice her, because damn this magical journal is fun.]

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[If people want to run into Nami at varying ages, she can be found:

-- At the library on Monday when she is 12, trying to reach that top shelf of navigation books;

-- At Good Spirits on Wednesday when she is 14, trying her luck at being served underage drinks (look, she can hold her liquor okay B|); and

-- Pretty much anywhere on the following Friday when she is 16, because she's smitten with a severe case of wanderlust; a rooftop, a shop, the forest, the battledome...anywhere. Chances are if you run into Nami today, she might attempt to pickpocket you just because she's got the suspicion she's damn good at it. And those ships out at sea hold her attention for a fair while, because...well, wouldn't it be nice to sail one away? These dreams, man.

For ages 17 and up, well... there'll be another post much later. Just to avoid confusion.]

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What about you? Did you practice a lot?

Of course! I practice everyday! You can't get better at anything if you don't practice!

I'm Nami. What's your name?

I am know as Vash the Stampeeede! A hunter of peace! Chasing the elusive mayfly known as love!

[Blink. Blink.]

Why?

[OH NO! Not WHY! The most dangerous question a kid could ask! The why's could never stop! Good thing Vash knows the perfect counter!] Why not?

That's not a real answer.

{She is on to you. B|]

Why isn't it? [HE CAN USE THE POWER OF THE WHY TOO!]

Because it doesn't tell me why!

Does there have to be a why?

How will I know if you don't tell me why? [She is a practical kid, not a whimsical one B|]

But how can I tell you if there is no why!?

So you just call yourself that because you're an idiot.

No! I... wait, what was the question again?

[Just a small giggle.] Why do you call yourself a mayfly of love?

[Y U P]

Oh no! I'm not a mayfly of love! I chase it!

Wh-- [She stops, then scowls. There's no point in asking. 8|] How did the rest go again?

It goes:

My name is... Vash the Stampeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeda! A hunter of peace! One who chases the elusive mayfly known as love!

Or well, something like that.

[...

...this looks tells you this 10 year old thinks you're an idiot.]

Do I have to call you all that?

Nah, you can call me Vash for short!

Well, okay then.

Hi, Vash.

Hello there, Nami! A pleasure to meet another funny face expert!

Nice to meet you too!

So what are you up to today? Or are you just working on your face making today?

Um. Just faces. [Though she'll get bored of that in a hurry.] I guess. There isn't much to do in this weather.

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