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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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[... oh hello there. Well, maybe if he's nice, he'll get more than a name from her.] I've never stopped at Cocoyashi before, but I've heard of it. I take it that means we're from the same world.

You're from the East Blue? There's quite a few of us from there.

[Nojiko... Where's he heard that name again? Cocoyasi Village... Nami's, right?]

[Rapunzel spies the girl in the bakery from behind the counter in between her baking frenzies. She's definitely never seen her before...and she has blue hair! It's remarkable, and Rapunzel more or less eavesdrops on her while she speaks to the journal. Sooooo she's new, huh? That explains a lot!

She tiptoes over a moment after she finishes speaking to the journal.]

Hello! How's the muffin? Do you like it?

Cocoyasi Village, the Conomi Islands.. [ she hums for a moment, as if she's thinking to herself about whether she recognizes the names or not. ]

I don't know. Is that somewhere in the Pacific, maybe..?

[The bakery is not vacant today, though the occupant sitting by her lonesome seems highly disinterested in her plate. No, Perona's dessert and tea had gone untouched for a good half hour or more, while she leaned her head one one had and gazed out the window. She wasn't exactly looking at or for anything in particular, and her mind was blank save for reminiscing about the news she heard of Zoro's death, and it definitely shows. She has no inclination to move or touch her food. Really, the only reason she's here today and now was because it was habit. Her body moved without thinking.

And here she is, with no appetite and no real desire to be out in public. She'd have preferred to just sulk where she can't be bothered. Oh well.]

Well that sounds vaguely familiar... was that somewhere in the north blue maybe?

[He may be a pirate, and an ex-captain at that, but that doesn't mean he's a geography specialist... or a memory adept skeleton.]

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

[Cocoyashi... Yes, she's heard of it. It's not her world, but she's heard of it from the one who grew up there. And hearing of such a place brings a bit of a bittersweet taste to Miyabi's mouth. The news of Nami going home is still young, and it's still a bit painful around the edges. Which may be why her tone is a bit dim when she speaks up.]

I've heard of Cocoyashi.

[Vivi's first impulse when she sees the entry is to laugh. Not with genuine humor, oh no, but a flat, almost bitter laugh, because are you kidding me, Luceti?]

[The way the woman looks is her first hint; Nami had some pictures of herself and Nojiko as children with Bellemere. Still, Vivi doesn't think too much of it until the woman mentions Cocoyashi. Then she gives her name, and there's absolutely no doubt. Nami's just gone home, and Luceti has seen fit to bring her sister here instead. Which brings us to the laughter.]

[It's not long-lived, at least. After the initial burst, Vivi has no trouble composing herself, and then she answers:]

Nojiko-san? Hello. This may be a little hard to believe, but I know your sister. Nami-san. She...she's not here any longer.

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]

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