[Action/Voice] Forward dated to the 19th

[mikangirl]

[Nami comes back to Luceti with a bang.

...literally.  Because the first indication of her arrival on the networks is her journal hitting a tree at high velocity.  The journal window won't pick up more than a whole bunch of dizzily swirling forest scenery and then a bare, reddened foot as she kicks it afterwards for good measure.  Then she just abandons it in the grass and stalks off.  Incredibly useful contribution to the journals, isn't it?  Sorry about that.

She's not really in any hurry to go home, and in no hurry to go announcing herself through town, but she is cold.  So after some indecision, she heads for the Avatar house instead, knocking hesitantly on the door in her New Feather dress in search of warmth and other things.

A little while later, having borrowed a coat and some shoes and feeling a little more herself, she heads for home, letting herself in quietly and... sort of standing there and listening for voices, noise, anything.  Then she'll come say hi.  Sort of.

Whether she stays there or not after that, who knows?  But she does eventually make a journal entry in the evening, borrowing someone else's.  She's not cruel enough to pretend she's not here when there are friends in town.]

[Voice]

Shirahoshi, are you still here?  I remember you, now.  Just thought I’d let you know.  

For everyone else... hi.  I'm back.  Again.  All that.  Business as usual, I guess.

[She sounds cheerful enough.  Just tired.]

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[bluemikan]

[ Nojiko's just finishing up making herself lunch. She could have eaten back at work or in town, but sometimes it's nice to get out of the bakery - although she admittedly tries to stay there because Nami's crew has been sort of. Weird. Aside from the obvious weirdness such as one of them being a skeleton, of course.

She hears the door, but doesn't think too much of it. There are enough people who could be coming or going that there's no reason to really fuss. Still, she's also made herself tea to ward off the chill outside, so she'll raise her voice without going to check who came home. ]

Tea in the kitchen if you want it. [ whoever you are. And she has to think for a second before remembering where to get the cups she wants, because this kitchen isn't second nature to her yet.

...not from that cabinet. Right. The other one. ]

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[mikangirl]

[It's been years since she heard that voice. Nami still knows it the moment she hears it, and she freezes in the doorway, just for a moment forgetting how to breathe. All the strength she borrowed from Katara runs away from her, fingers trying to dig a hole through the wood of the doorframe as she stands there. Because Nojiko's voice is always a welcome sound.

But in Luceti? After Bellemere is long gone?

Now? After--

That's not fair, Luceti.]

[mikangirl]

[Of course, this is assuming this hellhole is ever capable of being fair.

...
...
...schooling her face. Sure. She'll roll with it, why not? Nojiko could be gone by tomorrow.

She closes the door behind her, with a voice pitched to carry.]

That depends. How strong is it?

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

Welcome back, Orange. [Marco sounds pretty cheerful. Almost like he is determined to infect you with it. Quick zap him and get rid of it.]

You missed the pirates getting their asses kicked at dodgeball. [Maybe. Law joined in and they didn't fail so hard then, but Marco at least, got his ass kicked.]

How was Fishman Island?

[Video]

[mikangirl]

Wet and full of fishmen. [Deadpan. She's having none of your good cheer, Marco.]

...I went home and you played dodgeball?

[tapdancinskelly]

[Brook can be heard from the music room, playing his heart out on the violin. Although he doesn't have a heart. Regardless, the song he plays goes a little bit like this, and even though he heard someone open the front door to the house, he's still busily playing away.]

[mikangirl]

[She'll be a while getting to Brook... something about finding her sister in the kitchen. :| So it could be quite a while after the door goes that she climbs the stairs, padding quietly up to the door of the music room.

She doesn't say anything. But she'll be in the doorway watching until he finishes.]

[savedtheworld]

[Aang enters the house during the time that Nami's chilling there. And reacts as expected to finding Nami chilling there, with a mix of shock, uncertainty and incredulous joy.]

Nami?!

[mikangirl]

[Some of the redness has left her face by now, and Nami's curled up in a borrowed coat with a cup of something hot when Aang appears in the doorway. She glances up with a small, tentative grin.]

Hey, Aang.

[Voice]

[weakahoshi]

I'm still here, Namichin-sama. I live in the village now, because the ocean got too cold. Um. Do you want me to bring you anything?

[She really has no right to sound so utterly chipper.]

[Voice]

[mikangirl]

[Nami won't hold it against her. She'd much rather Shirahoshi managed to hold on to her cheer in this place.]

I think I'm okay, but thanks.

...in the village? Isn't it kind of a ...tight fit?

[ action ]

[markofthebrave]

[Who's that knock, knock, knocking at her door?]

Coming!

[Katara goes to answer it, her smile slipping off her face to shock.]

--Nami??!?

[ action ]

[mikangirl]

[Nami in a white new feather dress, no less. Hugging herself for warmth with reddened skin and bare feet and a smile that is really, really uncertain and a little sad.]

...hey.

Could I come in?

[Video]

[thefinaljedi]

[Well, that's a welcome voice]

Hey Nami. Sorry you got dragged back, again. But welcome back all the same.

[Video]

[mikangirl]

Thanks, Luke. [Names and faces come easy, she finds. It's the weirdest sensation of feeling the residents of Luceti were just right on the edge of her memory.

She's a bit short on reply, though. More worn out than she sounds.]

[Voice]

[toujoursfluer]

[Robin stirs at the sound of the familiar voice coming from the journal. She moves some books aside from it and stares at it a moment. So Nami has returned. Of course she has. And she is talking in something other than the flat voice. That's a sign of improvement. There's not much to say, though. Not much has really happened between then and now. Other than Zoro returning]

At least you had a vacation, ne?

[She hesitates and then]

It seems you're feeling better?

[Voice]

[mikangirl]

[There you are.]

It seems. [She's not going to grace that vacation crack with a response.] Hello, Robin.

[Voice]

[inkdrops]

[Well, this is quite a bit of good news. The journal's audio feed catches the immediate sound of movement and a splash of water (Miyabi was making tea) before her excited and happy face appears in the tiny camera. After all the crummy things happening, things are finally starting to look up a little.]

Nami, you've come back!

[Voice]

[mikangirl]

[Good news from whose point of view? There's a brief pause, because Nami could wish you weren't so very happy to see her. But she smiles anyway.]

Hey, Miya.

[voice]

[generalflirt]

...Wow. That's some pull you have, Nami-chan.

[voice]

[mikangirl]

Luceti just can't get enough of me, apparently.

[Voice]

[rageface]

... Welcome back. Again. [That's really all Ragna has to chime in with, right? Right?]

[Voice]

[mikangirl]

[...oh, Ragna. And now she's reminded of the night before she left, and she swallows painfully. But she'd already remembered Noel wasn't here anymore.]

Thanks.

How've you been?

[Action]

[flameoroku]

[Keeping warm? That's totally Roku's department. Although he was napping when Nami came by and won't see her until she's already settled in their house.

When he does see her, he has this feeling that he had met her before...but the name escapes him. Doesn't help that in his memory, he remembered her with shorter hair.]

Uh...hey. [Who are you again? :|;;;] Just getting out of the cold?

[Action]

[mikangirl]

[That's all right, Roku. It's been so long for Nami that she's having difficulty herself, though she definitely remembers you live here. Just...can't remember your name. 8|a]

Yeah. Sort of... turned up not really dressed for this kind of weather.

Hey.

[Voice] I have this weird feeling of deja vu...

[fallenambitions]

[...Luceti just can't keep Nami away for too long, huh. Deep down though, he really was happy to see her.]

I hope they didn't pull you during anything important back home. Welcome back, I suppose.

[Voice] I can't think why!

[mikangirl]

Important enough, but you know how time stands still around here. [There's some faint mockery to her tone.

Then she smiles.] Well, it was an improvement over last time.

[video]

[cannotcrossdress]

You were gone? Where'd you go?

[Chizuru gasps, her cheeks burning red.] Ah! I'm so sorry! That must come off as so rude!!

[There's got to be a way to recover--] P...perhaps you'd like to make good of that 'girl's day out' that you brought up last time we talked? As a welcome back of sorts, I mean.

[video]

[mikangirl]

...it's okay. It's nice to see you again. [Nami tries to school her memories of this girl. Really frivolous conversation, wasn't it...? Girl's day out...]

That's right. Did you end up finding some clothes you liked?

[Voice//Private]

[goldenglasses]

[Now there's a voice he's been wanting to talk to. When he had first tried to talk to Nami after he had come back and found his filter had broken he had been glad. Only now she was back and it seems like she remembered most everything.]

Nami... welcome back. [Hm, how to start. Should he just come out with: Did I attack you as a Zombie?] You make it back alright? Stuck in the new feather dress again?

[Voice//Private]

[mikangirl]

[What Vash gets back is silence. As Nami draws in a small breath, listening to that familiar voice...

...and then doesn't answer.

Not now. It's better that way. She doesn't trust herself to deal with him right now.]

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[lostinmyway]

[Now that is a very familiar voice. A tired voice, but a familiar voice.]

Nami?

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[lostinmyway]

[...Have a surprised voice but a very happy voice in return.]

You came back!

voice; /only like a hundred and ten years late

[alloys]

I'd say 'welcome back', but considering this is Luceti, how about I settle for a good old-fashioned 'good to see you again'?

[ ...Welcome back, essentially. ]

voice; it's okay we can be late together /o/

[mikangirl]

I'll take it. I think I much prefer it over a welcome, that's for sure.

['welcome back' indeed. She'd probably laugh at that. And Nami is reminded very much of the last time she saw Tony.]

How've you been?

[written]

[gavemyword]

[Zoro's first reaction upon hearing Nami's voice is to seek her out, make sure she's ok, and then take off again but it occurs to him that she might not be too happy to see him.

He hovers over his journal uncertainly before leaving her a short note:]



[Don't worry. He doesn't expect a reply.]

[written]

[mikangirl]

[You're going to get one anyway. It just takes a while, in between staring down at those words and tracing every line of that handwriting as if reassuring herself that she knows it and...

...working up the courage.

Not that that comes across in her own message, of course. Blunt strokes and a little violent on the page.]

Where are you?

[Voice]

[ledbythewind]

I would say "welcome back," but I think everyone else has already covered that.

[Voice]

[mikangirl]

So noted. [She could have done without the welcomes. Seriously.] How've you been, Richard?

[Voice]

[of_sablier]

Ah, Nami! You're back!

[Voice]

[mikangirl]

Yeah. Can't keep me away for long, apparently.

How's the orchard doing?

[action]

[alabastajewel]

[Vivi is in her room--unusual for this time of day, but after spending so much time abed recovering, and given the scattered state of the crew these days, she's come to see it as more of a refuge from Luceti.]

[She's seated at her desk, drafting some notes, or trying to. Her concentration is wavering, and the words don't come easily. It doesn't help that her mind keeps wandering, various memories filling her thoughts.]

[action]

[mikangirl]

[It probably won't help her concentration much at all when Vivi's bedroom door is flung back-- a little more violently than Nami intended, sorry, Vivi. Her face is drained of colour, but after a moment where her hands twitch into fists and her gaze sweeps across the room, her eyes fasten on Vivi with an expression akin to relief and just a little chagrin.]

--Vivi. You're still--




...hey.