bluemikan | first harvest. video. saturday afternoon.

[ 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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I'm not sure about those islands, but they sound familiar. What ocean are they in?

East Blue. [ If that helps at all. ]

Oh! You are from my world then, eh?

I'm Marco, I've spent the better part of the last few decades on the Grand Line, however.

[ She's only familiar with the name from a previous conversation. ]

Ace's brother?

I must be talking to another pirate, hm?

Aye.

First division commander of the Whitebeard pirates. Ace commands second division. I take it you've spoken with him?

My sister is in his brother's crew, apparently.

Nami. I knew that tattoo looked like hers. It's quite gorgeous, eh? Though I'm a little surprised she didn't mention having such a pretty older sister. Are also fond of mikan and pinwheels?

Thank you! I'm pretty fond of it. [ It's a connection to her sister, at least - although Nojiko's not about to spill that particular story to a stranger. ] Mikan and pinwheels?

[ a laugh. ] Yes, I am. [ their mother and father, huh? ]

Runs in the family I suppose, which is always nice to see.

There's a mikan grove here actually. We just finished the harvest, but I'm not sure what preparations go into protecting it for winter. It gets pretty snowy later here. Robin has a garden nearby that I help out on so I could show you both if you're interested.

[ Perperations she does every year. ]

Ah. I can handle those, if the grove was... [ Nami's. ]

Aye. It was hers. And I'm not sure who else would know how to do it.

It would be pretty sad if I didn't know my way around that sort of thing by this point.

I'll see what's been done and what else needs doing before the end of the day.

Thanks Nojiko. If you need help, let me know, eh? Or if you just want to be shown the way out there.

I will.

And thank you for the offer. I don't know how big a grove it is, or what's been done for them so far, but I'll let you know.

My pleasure. I've only gotten into gardening recently, but I know what it's like to have a lot of missing siblings, eh.

Are you all settled in or do you need any help with that?

I'm used to it. I'm not saying I don't miss Nami, but she's been sailing away ever since we were children. I'm used to missing her.

Vivi-san seems to have signed on for that task, actually. You're just a hair late.

Aye, price of sailing, eh?

[Laughs.] No problem. Might as well keep it with the crew.

The sea seems to do that to people. Me? I'm not the sailing sort. [ No, she's a home and harbor.

That's what she'd decided, when Nami decided to sail. ]

Someone's gotta man the islands, eh?

It'd be a bit crowded on the seas, otherwise.

Oh, trust me, it already is, eh.

It is the "pirate era".

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

The Era of Straw Hat...?

[A small laugh.] Maybe, eh? Who can say until it's nearly done. We're still at the dawn of such a thing.

Mah, in my case, just before the dawn even. The darkest part of the night. [Distant look.....]

[But he finally snaps out of it.] It'll be something to see I'm sure.

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