[ The rebuttal comes immediately, but she sounds markedly breathless when she says it, something she hears but doesn't know what to do with. A stupid comment like that shouldn't be enough to push her off her game even slightly, and yet here she is, following that tart retort up with a soft peal of nervous laughter before stepping past him so he can't see her face while she contends with – well, with whatever the fuck this feeling is. ]
They should be, by now.
[ And that's right, but isn't. The sense that time has fallen out of joint like a hip or a shoulder washes over her again as she approaches the trees with Luffy beside her, her eyes narrowing just a touch at the corners. It feels like the branches should be burdened with ripe fruit by now, but they've barely been at sea a week after departing the Conomi Islands. ]
I hope you're right, about the sea. [ It'll give her a good excuse to pick up new colors of ink as they go, but the idea makes her heart swell for deeper reasons than that, and when Nami speaks again she sounds downright winsome. ] My map is going to have every change in the water, too.
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[ The rebuttal comes immediately, but she sounds markedly breathless when she says it, something she hears but doesn't know what to do with. A stupid comment like that shouldn't be enough to push her off her game even slightly, and yet here she is, following that tart retort up with a soft peal of nervous laughter before stepping past him so he can't see her face while she contends with – well, with whatever the fuck this feeling is. ]
They should be, by now.
[ And that's right, but isn't. The sense that time has fallen out of joint like a hip or a shoulder washes over her again as she approaches the trees with Luffy beside her, her eyes narrowing just a touch at the corners. It feels like the branches should be burdened with ripe fruit by now, but they've barely been at sea a week after departing the Conomi Islands. ]
I hope you're right, about the sea. [ It'll give her a good excuse to pick up new colors of ink as they go, but the idea makes her heart swell for deeper reasons than that, and when Nami speaks again she sounds downright winsome. ] My map is going to have every change in the water, too.