[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.]

Comments

[mikangirl]

[Nami manages to look aggrieved and amused at the same time.] Luffy got mad at someone who called him a hero. Said heroes were always required to share the meat and he wanted all the meat to himself, thanks very much. And then Zoro followed up that same argument-- just switch out meat for booze.

[savedtheworld]

[That Luffy and his meat. He never thought someone that awesome could be that carnivorous.]

Oh, I see. Because they want to keep good stuff for themselves. But you guys still help people, right? When they need you and when you could leave them behind instead? That makes you guys heroes to me.

[mikangirl]

Hmm. Well, I don't mind being called a hero. [There could be money in it, for a start. ...okay Nami doesn't make a good hero. >_>] But Luffy just likes to help his friends.

...of course, it really doesn't take much for him to call you his friend.

[savedtheworld]

I'm glad for that. Helping friends is real heroic. And I don't see why anyone would take a lot to call someone their friend. [Clearly Luffy has a young disciple in this monk.]

I know that I used to always admire pirates when I heard stories about them as a kid. They sounded like they lived really adventurous lives of freedom, but when we actually met pirates, they were mean and attacked us just because Katara stole something from them. Pirates stopped being my heroes then. So I'm glad that you guys have given me reason to admire them again.

[mikangirl]

[...no sorry




...uh.]

Katara stole from pirates?

[savedtheworld]

Yeah, she never told you about that? It wasn't long after we first met, and we were trying to learn waterbending. The pirates had a really rare waterbending scroll, but they charged a lot of money for it. So Katara decided to steal it instead, and she said it was okay because they stole it to begin with!

[mikangirl]

[Oh good lord. Well, Katara already reminded Nami of herself. Only...much younger. She grins.]

It is always okay to steal from pirates.

[savedtheworld]

I believed Katara then, but I gotta say, having the word of an actual pirate gives it more credibility. But I won't steal from you, Nami.

[mikangirl]

That'd probably be wise. It's find to steal from pirates, but they do tend to hurt you for it if they catch you.

[savedtheworld]

But you wouldn't hurt us! ...Right?

[mikangirl]

I tend to be very violent with anybody who takes my stuff without asking.

Which you wouldn't do, of course, so the answer is no.

[savedtheworld]

[He's going to just pretend that's an unconditional 'no'.]

That's good. We all know better than to steal something from a dear friend anyway, and Katara would only steal from bad pirates.

[mikangirl]

[Good man, Aang.]

Did she ever steal anything more? [SO CURIOUS.]

[savedtheworld]

Not really, at least not I can think of right now. ...Oh, the closest I can think of is one time when Toph got us all to pull scams on Fire Nation gamblers in a village! Katara was actually against us this time, but in the end she decided to help Toph for one last one. ...Except that one got them captured. But we got away okay!

[mikangirl]

[Excuse her Aang, Nami's just packed up laughing.]

[savedtheworld]

You're laughing? But that's not even the funny part...

[mikangirl]

Sorry, sorry! It's not that it's funny, it's-- well, it is but for-- [Handwavehandwave.] Go on.

[savedtheworld]

I'm actually not sure if I should tell this part. [Pause.] But you're a friend of Katara so maybe I should! Katara and Toph got locked in a wooden cell, so they didn't have anything to bend. But then, to get out Katara realized that... [He giggled a little.] she could bend her own sweat, so she did that to escape.

[He hadn't witnessed it in person, but hearing after the fact he could never be sure whether he found it hilarious, disgusting, creative or adorable in a way. Probably all four.]

[mikangirl]

Her own sweat?

[That sounds...


...revolting. '_' KATARA SHE THOUGHT YOU WERE A LADY.]

[savedtheworld]

Yep! Pretty smart, though. I bet most Waterbenders don't realize they can do that. I should try it for myself sometimes!

[mikangirl]

...that is pretty resourceful. [Disgustingness aside. She wonders if she can do anything with sweat. Ick. But. Yes.] I wouldn't recommend trying it around anyone you're trying to impress, though.

[savedtheworld]

Y-yeah, true. But I guess Katara would understand. Since she... already did it. Maybe she would be impressed, too. [But he quickly shakes his head.] But that's beside the point! Uh... What else is... new?

[mikangirl]

Not a lot. Half my crew is away right now. The orchard is going to be quiet until spring. I guess I have a lot of time to kill.

[savedtheworld]

I guess that explains why you're hanging around here! But... that's a good thing, right? For a change? Everything being... quiet. [It had almost been the same for them since recovering from the draft, although there was Aang's brief trip home and Suki's arrival to shake things up a bit.]

[mikangirl]

[It's too quiet. Nami tells herself it's only because Sanji and Zoro are away, but she knows better by now. Still, she smiles.] Well, I'll take quiet over the usual chaos around here.