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[ This seems like it's working now. Nojiko is already out of the New Feather dress, having managed to get directions to the Welcome Center, where she got a run-down of what was going on. That took most of the morning. The rest of the morning was spent finding her clothing, changing, and then sitting at a corner table in the bakery reading through the entirety of the new arrival guide.

She also had breakfast. A muffin. It was a blessedly normal muffin.

The breakfast was the only remotely normal part of the morning. Now that she feels educated (although...skeptical and still trying to hold all of this information in), it looks like it's time to attempt using the journal, as was suggested to her earlier. She's still at her little table in the bakery, the journal held open in front of her. ]

Hello. [ just getting that greeting out of the way, before plunging onward. ] So, I understand that this is a way of talking to people here. [ The guide explained that, and she's sort of been checking out the last two or three entries, just figuring out how it works. ] And I'm also given to understand that there are people here from many worlds?

I'm not asking for that explanation again. I'm just not sure how I'm meant to find anyone from my own world. [ ...Or if she wants to. It's not like being from her world automatically makes someone excellent company or someone she wants anything to do with. But. ] How do you know if you're from this world or that one? If there were a list of possibilities, I guess I might have a chance of picking home out.

So I suppose I'm really just asking to be found. [ Dry laughter. Well, she's taken care of everything else, so...of course, there might not be anyone else. That had been covered, too. ] If you know Cocoyasi Village or the Conomi Islands, I'd be grateful for a quick word. [ Presumably anyone familiar with geography from home would be from home, right?

A pause. Wow, she forgot something important, didn't she? ] My name is Nojiko, by the way. Thanks. [ Okay she'll just end that there, then, and see what's what. ]

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[ ...Of course he did. Nami, your crew really is something. ]

I don't think they know the meaning of the word "impossible".

Ah, you mean the best captain having a crew with the best navigator?

Ghostly customers?

[ weird way to describe people... ]

Yes! Ghosts. They were EVERYWHERE.

Yeah. Along with the best swordsman, cook, sniper, doctor, and everyone else.

Couldn't hurt. You never know when a draft might happen here.

[She should totally come learn from him. If nothing else she can pretend to be spying on him for Nami and the Straw Hat's sake.]

Aye, the Era of Whitebeard, and headed into a new one.

Sometimes it'd be better if they did.

[Spoke a little too quickly, and with far too much honesty, which is why she clams up a second after. Why does she even care about a pigheaded ogre like Zoro anyway? They never did anything but argue...and it's not like he even remembered her to begin with.

Perona bites her lip, as that thought just grinds something sharp right in the pit of her stomach.]

Miss Nojiko, it's a pleasure. [She bows her head politely.] I'm Miyabi - or Miya for short. I can be at the bakery very soon, please wait there.

[And, true to her word, Miyabi does arrive in relatively little time after closing her journal and getting her things. Of course, it's not the way most people travel. Seeing as how she couldn't find the Lucky Mallet quickly enough to make herself larger and get going, she'll be flying...on the back of a crow.

Hopefully Nojiko's okay with birds. Because the moment she's spotted, the feathery creature in question - and its teensy passenger - head right for her.]

[ ...WELL then. ]

That's...out of the ordinary. Or not, here?

Should you be admitting that?

Ah...sign me up, then.

[ That was decisive, at least. ]

The Era of Straw Hat...?

...Ah. That might be so.

[ Well, in certain cases. But...she can't fault their methods from everything she does know about them. ]

It might make others worry less, at least.

[ Nojiko is okay with birds, although she doesn't exactly...notice the bird as of yet. She's also not entirely aware of how small Miyabi is, given that the journal image of her shows what seems to be an appropriately sized face. ]

Exactly.

[There's another stagnant pause as Perona debates ending the conversation there and heading for home - she's not hungry, and there's not much more she wants to say, especially about the Straw Hats - but instead she spares another glance at Nojiko and continues.]

What have you heard about them? The very last thing you can remember, if I may ask. [Gauging timelines this way, she can also tell you just how many stupid decisions those fools have made.]

[Ah, the wonders and flaws of technology! Either way, though, the crow will caw rather loudly before it lands a few feet in front of Nojiko, just to get her attention. It gives her a once over, then trills something over its shoulder to what seems like a small, glowing, golden ball of light on its back.]

Yes, that's her. Thank you, Kuroi. [And up that little light ball hops, right to the tip of the crow, Kuroi's, beak.] Miss Nojiko, hello!

Oi, I'm allowed to brag about my little brother, right?

[ Oh, she's going to be concerned about Nami, isn't she?

But Nojiko looks thoughtful, wondering how far back or forward she might be. ]

Ah...a bounty increase, for declaring war on the world government.

[ ...well that just happened.

Still, it isn't like weird things aren't par for the course in her own world, although tiny little people is new. ]

Ah...Miya?

Of course you are. But you're a pirate, too, aren't you?

Y-Yes...it's me. This is how big I really am. [Big. Big. Not small, or tiny, or little. Never that.]

I'm a poncle, a forest sprite... U-Uhm, I can sometimes make myself bigger, like you humans, with a tool from my world, but I couldn't...f-find it. It must be wandering the forest again.

[Declaring war on--ah! Yes, that. Perona actually smiles when she remembers that - it was forever ago for her. Those idiots challenged such a strong power...and didn't fear it. They were perhaps the only ones, the only imbeciles foolhardy and crazy enough to even think of doing such a thing. Yet still...they came out on top. Again and again and again they manage to survive and triumph.]

Dumb luck... Mm, I remember that. It was far behind what I know. It was just before we...met, for the first time. It's been two years since that, for me.

Yep! But since Luffy's going to be the Pirate King, I'd much rather tell people about that.

[ ...You know what, this is still more normal than the talking skeleton. Nojiko will take it. ]

Ah...sorry, I was just startled. [ Does she offer to let Miyabi ride on her shoulder or something...? ] The journal gave me another idea.

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