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[Someone's clearly playing with their dreamberry - the first thing the video catches as it flickers to life is a pattern of flowers across a grubby yellow t-shirt before the image spins dizzily to catch a flash of orange hair and then up to the sky, green leaves and orange fruit framing one side of the picture. Then there's a tired curse and the

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[Sanji was sitting at the kitchen table, thumbing through a new cookbook he'd just got and absently letting the messages on his Dreamberry cycle through when one veeery familiar voice reached his ears.

And that, that was a voice he’d be able to place even if she’d only muttered one syllable, but three whole sentences-Sanji’s head jerked up immediately, eyes wide with disbelief as they landed on his Dreamberry.]

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[And oh, his heart can’t handle this, BOTH of his lovely ladies in the same week?? After what felt like years of worrying about them and wondering if they were alright and when he’d see them again, and his luck is NEVER this good, so maybe he’s imagining things and that’s not actually-]

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[he’s scrambling for the Dreamberry a second later, because shut up, shitty brain, that was DEFINITELY Nami-san’s voice and that means she DEFINITELY has to be here and Sanji can finally see her beautiful face again and.

And.

...And just as quickly as Sanji’s face had lit up, it falls again because there’s no Nami-san on his screen, WHYYYYYYYY.]

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[Ah, but! He can still hear rustling! So she’s probably still there! The shock-delayed gut reaction finally starts boiling up inside him, a thousand hearts get ready to explode out of him like a volcano erupting, angels start preparing their choir to sing-]

...Nami-san. Nami-san! Oi, is that-are you-Nami-

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[And then finally he just can’t contain it any longer.]

NAAAAAAMIIIII-SWAAAAAAAAAA-

DONE / alksjfh my internet totally just DIED in the middle there >\

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[whiiich of course is when she screams, the sound piercing straight through Sanji’s happy flaily oblivious bubble, and he all but falls out of his seat in his sudden knee-jerk reaction to run and save his precious damsel in distress-but luckily he stops himself before he takes off running for fuck knows what, given that he has no idea where she is, and he grabs the Dreamberry off the table, his tone all Serious Business now as he tries to get his nakama’s attention.]

Nami-san. Where are you??

1/2 /awards you a new internet for iconspam 8D

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[Give her a second - between the running and panicking and flailing and ducking and other people attempting to get her attention, it's a few moments before the video feed picks up again in a blur of movement before it finally catches Nami's face on screen.

Zoro got a deathglare, unconvincing though it may have been. Sanji? Nami gives him an out-and-out relieved smile. (Because one of her secret hobbies isn't making his life hell, unlike some.) Also, that's two of you and she hopes that means the others are here.]

Sanji-kun!

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[And ohoho, that is a valid question. Permit her to answer while she keeps fleeing for her life. Er, sort of.]

I don't know. I was in an orange grove and I got ambushed by a walking scarecrow! Some guy says I'm in Espoir--

[And ducking that rake swing, thanks very much.] --where are you? Are you all right?

1/2 YAY, why thank you! XD

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[NAMI-SAN’S BEAUTIFUL FACE-and that smile, oh, excuse him for a moment, Sanji will just be over here melting into a puddle of goo]

Ahhh~ Nami-san is so kind to ask!! I’m-

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[he snaps out of that pretty quickly, though :|]

-nevermind that! You’re in Espoir? [curses under his breath] Shit, that’s all the fucking way down-I’ll come find you! We’re father up north. Just. [he’s already halfway out the door, trying to remember if he actually knows anyone who lives down there] ...The shitty scarecrow should leave you alone once you’re out of his field, Nami-san. Do you see any roads nearby??

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[Pfft, same Sanji-kun. But that news is hopeful.] He will--?

[We are leaving this field posthaste.] No, but a guy told me to head northwest. Apparently there's a village there?

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A guy? [frowns -- some other guy talked to Nami-san before him?? UNACCEPTABLE.] Ah, yeah, there’s a village. A village, then a city, then a lake, then a shitty desert... [but no ocean...at least, not that he knows of yet]

There’ll be somewhere you can rest in the village, though. If you need to. Till I get there. [pauses, the corner of his mouth tugging upward] There’s a tavern.

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[Not only some other guy, but Zoro, too. 8Da Oh but hey, interest piqued despite the murderous scarecrow.] Tavern? I can wait there for you.

[And a pause. Speaking of scarecrows-- a soft huff of relief.] You're right. It's gone.

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[...Sanji is happy not knowing that yet, kthx. :|]

Good, then I don't have to kick it's ass for bothering you. ...Actually, I might anyway.

[pulls the door to the house shut behind him as he leaves and shades his eyes with a hand as he turns to look up at the roof, thinking he should probably tell the others where he's going...]

Nami-san. [glances back at the Dreamberry, relief and pure happiness battling for control over his tone] I can't tell you how good it is to hear your voice again. Are you okay? How have you been??

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[Such a pleased grin. Yeah, show that scarecrow who's boss, Sanji-kun, scaring the life out of her. 8| But those last questions give her pause, because--]

I'm fine. More or less-- [Better than you, last time she saw you. Which was only a few hours ago at most. So now she sounds confused.] I haven't been gone that long, have I?

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[hesitates slightly] ...Well- [and then suddenly there’s Usopp yelling in the background -- guess that answers the question of whether or not to tell them]

Hn. [leans against a tree by the house and lights up a smoke as he waits for the others to come barreling out of the house any second now] This shitty place is really weird, Nami-san. I’ve been here for almost two months. Zoro got here a couple weeks before me, and Usopp a couple weeks after. ...Luffy’s been here-awhile.