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[At 17, Nami will be out and about per usual, though not trying out her newly discovered thieving ways. She learned all she needed to the day before (a year ago), and by now she knows enough of what's going on. Her mood isn't the best for a variety of reasons, so at some point in the afternoon she vanishes off to the sea and just watches the waves from the desert fort until she can't see anything at all. She'll creep home late.

At 18, on the other hand... she wakes up in tears. Again. But it's okay. This time she doesn't mind at all. She doesn't so much sleep in this morning as curl around her pillow and rake over her memories until they all make sense, so if anyone wants her before 10 that's where she'll be. When she finally gets up, she spends most of the day in the house because ksfasf she finally remembers all of you sorry pirates. She just doesn't remember anyone else. And the Arlong brand is gone this morning, replaced with her familiar pinwheel-and-mikan tattoo.

At 19, she makes a post, a little paler than usual. She's regained all the way to her nineteenth birthday, but the events before that were kinda nasty. 8|]

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So I finally remember enough to work out what's been going on this week. But as I understand it, I still have a couple years to go, so. Don't hold it against me if I don't remember you for another day, or whatever.

So... am I cute at 21?

[Private to Noel]

Um. [She remembers you saying two people went home a few days ago. That, and according to her memories, you're supposedly missing.] Are you there?

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[After Aku. But also directly after Hazama, so she was more pissed/afraid for Noel and less hiding-under-her-bed. She'll take it!]

Very. Though you know, I think it's pretty sad when we can refer to anything they do to us here as normal.

[Oh yes, Hazama. When Zoro nearly killed her while she was trying to help you. That horrendous time of knowing something was wrong, and not being sure she'd be able to fix it... Nami, you'll give her gray hair.]

Well, usually little kids stay little until they switch back... so then if you keep that in mind, maybe this is more normal.

[Because growing is normal or something. Nevermind, she's just glad to be talking to a Nami that remembers her.]

[Hey, it's been years and you haven't got a single one! Clearly she's not trying hard enough.]

Ahh, true enough.

I'm guessing I still have a whole bunch more I've forgotten, but... at least I'm getting there. I'm kinda glad to finally remember what the heck Luceti is, anyway.

...how've you been? Not that I guess I won't know in a couple days, but...still.

Oh, you know... [Mission, Toph, other madness... it's actually been a while since they've caught up, and Katara is in no way prepared to do that over the network and while Nami's still... well, the friend she remembers before Things Got Worse.]

Missing bo practice. It's not exactly fair to spar with you when you're twelve.

Heh, probably not. Are we still keeping that up, then? You might be better than me by now.

We're probably about even by now. [Which just demonstrates Nami's awesome instructional tactics and Katara's learning curve, considering.]

It's more straight sparring time now than instruction.

That's good. I'm glad I managed to help out, anyway.

...ever had cause to use it?

On the drafts, a few times. It's always good to have a back-up.

[/sob, this is so weird.]

[Tell me about it. ._.]

Drafts...? How many have we had now?

Seven all together. I've been on three.

[So she's probably up for the next one.]

That many? I guess they're a regular thing, then. [She frowns.] They get lots of people accepting?

[...huh.]

They quit giving us even a pretense of a choice for them. Your name comes up, and you have to go. They'll drag you out if you refuse.

Oh. Well, that makes sense.

...seriously, I'm not surprised. This place sucks.

[...you have no idea.

Katara really, really wishes she could hit a "pause" button for Nami right now. Everything that she'd been through after Luceti Valley, how broken she was after Miya's death... talking to her, when she remembers, before this stuff happens is really painful. And it feels... wrong.]

Well, try to enjoy what you can today, all right? Soon you'll be all caught up.

Yeah. And I don't mind catching up. I know I feel ... it feels weird, growing up like this when it-- [...hard to explain. So she stops.]

I much prefer being this age than I did being ten, that's for sure.

Aww, come on. You make a cute ten-year-old.

[As she has seen in the past.]

[She wasn't free at ten years old. But Nami doesn't remember telling Katara that particular story yet, so she just grins.]

Most adorable kid in the village, I was.

[...]

Well, you don't remember now, I guess, but I've seen you as a kid too. And I could believe it.

You have? When?

Ah - maybe a year or so ago for me. You probably don't remember it yet.

Wait, but-- [akdadf THIS IS CONFUSING] --what, do I just yoyo back and forth or something? How do I ever get anything done?

It was only for a few weeks.

Have you seen your mikan grove yet?

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So I was just a kid the whole time, huh?

Yeah, I have. [Though that's said with a faint suggestion of curiosity.] It's Bellemere-san's.

Yeah. You were just a kid the whole time. [She's not answering your other curiosity, Nami, sorry.]

[She notes that. And decides she'll satisfy it in a day or two anyway.]

Guess it's nice to have a taste of home, anyway.

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