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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|]

[Voice]

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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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.