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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Nami has left, unfortunately. She has a mikan grove, however, north east of town.

[She would have liked to see you here... or then again...perhaps not. Not in this place]

[ Oh, that's the first she's heard of the grove. And this time she guesses correctly: ]

Nico Robin?

Mm.

Nojiko-san? [It's not really a question, though. So she follows it up with]

Have you just arrived?

Correct on both counts.

[ So this is one of the crew members she'd never met, but had gotten the bounty poster for. ]

Ah, but I've spoken to...Ace, Marco, Vivi and Brook. [ Brook asked her about her panties. B| ]

Most of us then, it seems.

[The sound of turning page]

I'd welcome you here but honestly this place isn't very welcoming.I hope you remain unscathed.

Quite a few, at least.

[ That wasn't ominous at all, Robin. B| ]

...Well, thank you. I'd like to meet you at some point, at least. I doubt I would have had a chance for a long time back home. [ Nami's crewmates being with Nami herself off on wild adventures. ]

Perhaps. Who knows if any of us may survive the New World. But it would be a wonderful place to die at any rate.

[Just to get there. Perhaps she'll be sent home soon enough. Though not for long. Never for long]

I'm sure we'll run into one another. If not, I'm usually always at the library.

I'm certain you will.

[ She has to be. Nami's with them. ]

It seems likely. [ especially since she'll be moving in ] I'll drop by sometime if not, though.

first harvest. video. saturday afternoon.

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