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[plight_of_the_navigator]

From: Njord
Date: August 15, evening-- after the new arrivals show up

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[Nami wastes no time. As soon as she finds herself back at this familiar place, as soon as she learns who her shinki is, as soon as she has the opportunity, she opens up her device to the BBS and fires it up to record the following message of utmost importance:]


WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!?!?!?!?!


[So we need answers, are we clear on that? Good. Next items of business! Tone shifts from outraged to worried.]

Zoro, are you still here? You better tell me you’re all right or I'm going to kill you!

Yata, where are you? I’m coming to find you.

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[nibelungvalesti]

One many mean well, and yet still cause harm. Do not think my words are out of mistrust. [She makes no judgments one way or the other.[

I presume, then, that you are from the same place.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

That's a funny thing for you to say right on the heels of suggesting I could be an enemy of his. [Nami's own tone is neutral and objective. After all, she has no reason to be upset personally about it; she doesn't know this woman from Adam.]

[nibelungvalesti]

It was a possibility, but not a likelihood. Pretending to be a friend of a shinki who did not remember you, in order to deceive and thus take advantage of them, is not an unreasonable idea.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

So, what you're saying is that you don't trust me, but you want me to accept an assertion that you do. I have something to say about that: you can't have it both ways. I don't mind the mistrust, but I don't have much patience for being fed an obvious lie.

[nibelungvalesti]

One can consider a possibility without believing it certain, and at this point I think it is quite unlikely you are in fact an enemy of Zoro's. Yet at this point I neither trust nor mistrust you. I do not know you well enough for either.

We should rectify that.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

[Nami is dead silent for five seconds.]

Sure. Let's.

[nibelungvalesti]

[The Valkyrie doesn't even interpret that in anything more than the most direct and least nuanced way.]

I am the Valkyrie, here known as Osiris. It may perhaps please you to know that I am goddess of battle, quite capable of using a sword. [Because really, what else would Zoro become, and who else would he be pleased to serve?]

[plight_of_the_navigator]

[Nami takes that to mean Zoro turns into a sword for her. But the statement makes her simmer a little inside. She keeps her tone carefully neutral.]

Oh? What makes you say that?

[nibelungvalesti]

Quite aside from his vessel form, Zoro's love for swordsmanship is clear in his actions and behavior. While he seems easygoing enough that he would not complain about a god who did not share that particular love, I believe my ability pleases him.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

Ah, I'm sure it does. He did seem quite into swordsmanship. You're clearly better suited to be his god than I was.

[nibelungvalesti]

I see. You were his god as well as his friend. More becomes clear to me now.

I do not know if I am truly suited to be his god, but I know that together we are powerful -- by even my own measures as an Aesir. Odin himself...

[Would tremble? Would not like the Valkyrie gaining such strength, she realizes abruptly -- never mind that she is his to command, and acts in his name.]

[An interesting and perhaps alarming thought.]

...Suffice to say that I value his presence.

[plight_of_the_navigator]

I'm pretty sure no one is truly suited to be his god.

[Mainly because Zoro is not truly suited to have one.]

But I've heard from him that he think's you're all right. I'm glad for that.

[nibelungvalesti]

I am grateful for his approbation. [She sounds like she is being deadpan to the point of sarcasm... but honestly, she means it. She just sounds like that.]

[plight_of_the_navigator]

You should be. His standards are high. He wouldn't follow just anyone.

[nibelungvalesti]

Oh? He strikes me as fairly easy-going.

[Since she's never had cause to see his other side.]

[plight_of_the_navigator]

Yeah... he is, but that's different from what I'm talking about.

[Enies Lobby was so long ago, but it's hard to forget the fight between Luffy and Usopp, and Zoro's response to the ways for Usopp to acceptably (or unacceptably) return.]

[nibelungvalesti]

I see. Would you try to explain? I wish to understand him, that our partnership may be profitable and smooth.