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[Nami's had quite enough of sleeping. It's kind of disconcerting to be told it's now September, and it doesn't help that she's spent the time since Ling's rude wake-up call still sleeping most of her day away. So tired, all the time. Prone to falling asleep mid-shower, and that is annoying, to say the least.

Oh, well. A week has gone past and she can finally get through most of the day with no problems, so Nami takes advantage of the fact that there is no Chopper to tell her otherwise (and no Katara or Law at the house at the time) to sneak up to the orchard and see how it's fared in her near-two-month absence.

...huh. Been hot lately, she sees. And a lot less mikan up here than she was expecting. Nothing too alarming, and the place seems okay otherwise, pinwheels and all. Someone even fixed her cottage door, lookit that.

Welp. Observant villagers might see the low-lying rainclouds to the northeast of the village, a tiny little storm that barely covers an acre. It's too hot today anyway, may as well take advantage of the fact that she can cheat.]

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Thanks, whoever fixed my door. Did you take some of the fruit as payment or should I blame someone else for that?

[Tell her what she's missed, Luceti.]

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[Oh c'mon Nami totally believes in all that sort of thing. Totally.]

Mind you, now I think about it, there are definitely some things that I seem to recall. Probably because I never forget when someone owes me a debt.

A debt?

Hmm...well, it must not be about me. I don't remember owing you any debts, none at all.

Oh, that's pretty cheap, Guy. I can think of at least one you never paid up on.

Just the one? I suppose I should pay it already then.

[Yep. Can't hold back that giggle any longer. She really is so happy to see him again.]

Welcome back. It's been a while.

Yeah, it really has. How about we not discuss my previous stay though? I'm already confused enough over it, hahahaha.

I'm not surprised. This seems to be a thing with you, isn't it? You couldn't remember the first time you were here, either.

[Nami of the long memory. She wonders if Guy remembers telling her that.]

Oh, I told you that? [Sort of. He's still getting his memory sorted out.] Yeah, I know. It's kind of creepy, actually; like there's more than one me.

[Right, slapping a lock on this before he sends it over. No need for Luke or Asch to see that.]

Or different lives you've led in different worlds, maybe. Luceti has a way of messing with people's heads like that, huh? [It's like with Luffy's brother. Four separate Aces, now. None of which remembered their previous visits. She nearly asks Guy if he's coping with it okay, but he did just ask not to discuss it. Hmm. Change of subject. ...OH.]

Fancy a walk?

What? Sure, yeah. Have a place in mind already?

In a sense. I'm out of the village right now doing some farming. Can you see the clouds in the sky to the north?

Hold on.

[Footsteps as Guy descends the stairs and heads outside.]

Yup, I see 'em. Getting a weather prediction?

I predict it'll keep raining until you get here. My forecasts are never wrong.

Travel up river and look for the fence with all the pinwheels on it!

[Things sort of changed a little up here since you were here last.]

I'm not going to house six? [That's Nami's house, isn't it? Guy looks at the clouds again -strangely isolated, those- and grabs a jacket to cover his head just in case. He doesn't have an umbrella but dude it's like a billion degrees out there. Some rain would probably feel nice.]

[She should feel guilty for making him run about in this heat, really. Oh well, he could have said no.]

Nope! I'm out at the orchard. Lots of fruit trees! Much cooler out this way, too.

...the Malnosso decided in their infinite wisdom to give us farmland last year.

[And lord, she kinda wished Guy was there for the fallout of that.]

[Kind of hard to run and talk at the same time actually.]

Fah- farmland? [Pant pant.] Why would that- ever be a good idea?

[Good grief, you silly man, it's perfectly okay to walk!]

Something about self sufficiency. [A serious point that one, actually-- the politics of this place have changed drastically since he was here last. But she won't get into that now (and not on the journals, anyway.) But...ah. It all turned up as part of an experiment last year where we thought we'd settled here for hundreds of years, and then it just sort of stuck around. I kind of inherited a mikan grove as a result.

[She moves inside and takes the journal with her. If he's going to run all all the way up here, she better make something ice cold to drink.]

[If Guy wanted to walk to her, he'd walk.]

Oh did you? You must be happy about that.

[Guy doesn't end up running all the way there, but Nami is inside when he arrives and he lets himself into the orchard. It's raining just over this area of Luceti, which is weird, but it's cool on his skin and he leaves his jacket on the fence to stay dry, walking into it and tilting his head back.

Nice.]

It's like a slice of home. I tend to come up here a lot.

[She's watching for him to arrive, so Nami closes her journal when she sees he's arrived, slipping out of the cottage.]

You got here fast. You've ruined my weather prediction.

[She clearly minds.]

Maybe I shouldn't have run. [Guy doesn't care. He's caught most of his breath, so he just comes over closer to her.

Dammit, phobia.]

Good to see you again. Well, I mean, good to see you knowing what I know now.

Hey, I am good to see no matter what. And I'm even awake this time!

[She grins at him. And Nami definitely remembers certain phobias, so she doesn't move, letting him come up to the shelter of the porch instead.] Seriously, though. What made you think I'd forgotten you?

[Very kind of you.]

I uh- well, my memory's still a bit fuzzy, and you didn't look like you recognized me. Me me, I mean, not before-me.

[that makes sense right]

[It makes enough. Her smile is a little rueful.] You didn't really know who I was, before. I sort of erred on the side of politeness.

Come inside. I made you a slushie.

[Hospitality at its classiest.]

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You're an angel.

[Guy follows her inside.]

So is this where you live now? By yourself?

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