001 | Action/Voice

[weathervain]

[Morning:

There is a navigator in a New Feather dress wandering up and down the rows of what she thought was her own mikan grove, looking thoroughly lost.  This isn't her dress.  That isn't her cottage.  This isn't her book, even if it has her name on it.  (She hasn't really looked closely at it yet; just kind of picked it up and claimed it because it said Nami on the front, so finders keepers.)  Not to worry; if nobody is around, she'll eventually snap out of her daze and kick the cottage door open in a fit of temper, then sit down in a place that looks long abandoned and aggressively read a lot of notes.  And be...

...well, she's no less confused.  What the hell.

Also, she's kind of angry.  That's to be expected, right?

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In the afternoon, she visits the village proper and does a full round of the stores in the plaza, both looking for (a) her own things, and (b) anything that might be remotely valuable she can swipe from the stores, because supposedly it's free.  Hell, while she's at it, she might as well take any clothing that looks cute.  When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping.  Cliche smiche, it makes her feel better.

She'll also flop down in Seventh Heaven and grab some lunch.  Inevitably she'll end up in Good Spirits some time after that, because this situation is freakish and some people have recognised her and that's weird so free alcohol is an excellent idea.  And it's from there she makes a quick voice post.]

[Voice]

So I've apparently been here before.  I don't remember you, sorry.  [Not sorry.  But.]   Is there anyone else here from East Blue? 

Comments

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

I do not. [But she takes the chance to come out of the tree. For now. Landing gracefully besides it.]

[Action]

[weathervain]

[Huh. Now she has a closer look, Nami is curious.]

What are you, exactly?

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

[Luckily she's gotten a little use to being asked this question in Luceti.]

I am of both the offspring of the changeling dragons and that of the water nymphs. I am of mixed blood.

[Action]

[weathervain]

...huh. [That explains the feet, she ...guesses.] I thought those things were both legends.

[Well, dragons and nymphs anyway. She's never heard of a changeling dragon.]

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

Merely legends? [Both of them?] Legends at time were once based in truth. Could they have died out many seasons ago?

[It is something she fears for her own land.]

[Action]

[weathervain]

Maybe. Probably. Or maybe they exist somewhere. It's possible. ...I mean, it's probable, because you're here, right?

[Guess who still thinks she's still on her home world somewhere.]

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

Yes. I am here. With my blood and that of my family the dragons still live.

[As that's what you meant? Just a general statement about her own world. There's no reason to explain you're not on your home world, right? You should have realized that the moment you woke up and saw the wings after all.]

[Action]

[weathervain]

[And thus this realisation passed like a ship in the night.]

Well...good. Yes. Anwyay, have you ever seen anyone else up here? Like a girl with blue hair and a tattoo like--

--well, tattoos, anyway.

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

No. I have not seen this person.

[Action]

[weathervain]

All right, thanks anyway. Guess I'll go looking in the village, then. Maybe they can tell me what happened.

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

What happened?

[Action]

[weathervain]

My house is gone. [She waves at the cottage just seen at the end of the aisle.] That's new. So something must have happened out here...

[If Arlong destroyed it-- that's a thought. Suddenly she's more worried about Nojiko than anything else.]

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

That is the only building that has stood among these trees since I arrived in this land.

[Action]

[weathervain]

[...she wasn't gone that long, was she? Maybe only a month or--]

How long have you been here?

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

[She's quiet for a moment as she tries to remember how humans would state their measurement of times.] I have been hear for the season to grow cold and warm again a full time.

[Action]

[weathervain]

[So somewhere between six to twelve months? Definitely she hasn't been gone that long. The wings were a creepy enough addition. There really is only one other explanation. Or...a sliver of one.]

This isn't home.

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

No, the humans usually live in the village further ahead. [Spoken as if this is something Nami should know. Xzana saw it more of a test of her own knowledge then something Nami wouldn't know.]

[Action]

[weathervain]

[Dragon person you take things way too literally.]

Well, we're back to square one. Guess I'll go ask them what's going on.

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

Is something wrong? Are the- [A pause as she recalls the name.] -Malnosso doing something again?

[Action]

[weathervain]

The who?

[That might be a yes.]

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

[Xzana misunderstands at first, thinking that she didn't get the Malnosso's name right.] The people who change us into believing lies.

[Action]

[weathervain]

The people who what?

[THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.]

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

The people who gave us the false memories. Made us different. Changed us.

[Action]

[weathervain]

...

[So the Malnosso are to blame for the wings? Nami's starting to feel hellishly out of depth here. On the other hand...] I don't have any false memories.

[...she thinks. PARANOIAAAA. WHY IS THE HOUSE DIFFERENT D:]

[Action]

[elongatedsmile]

No, they have removed the false memories. [She narrows her eyes a little. Curiously, she's not sure what to think of this.] How have you forgotten already?