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[Today if anyone's wandering into Seventh Heaven, they'll find Kairi sitting at a table by herself. Thanks to Sanji, she's agreed to pick up a few shifts at the restaurant as a part-time waitress. She's just finished her shift for the day and she's got her Luceti-provided journal open in front of her, along with a sheet of what looks like purple paper. She had leafed through the pages of the Luceti journal, checking on the village, but now she's occasionally writing lines on the purple page. If anyone were to get close enough to look, they'd see:

Thinking of you, wherever you are. It's been a little over two months since you left...almost three, actually, but I still think about you every day. I think we all do.

[She pauses in her writing then upon realizing two things. A.) This is very much like a letter she wrote to Sora about fifteen months ago and B.) It's been almost three months since the brunette left. It felt weird the longer she thought about it, thinking about how close she had become to some people and how distant she was starting to feel from the boy who was...no, is her best friend.

It disturbs her, in a way. Enough to cause her to push the letter aside, turning her attention back to her Luceti-journal to address the public. Her voice is pretty casual, but anyone who knows her well enough may notice there's a slight hesitance.]

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What would you consider a good balance between making a life here in Luceti and keeping your life in your own world in focus? I mean in the sense of...well...let's talk about jobs for instance. Do you think it's important to make yourself useful here, or would you rather wait until you go home since it may not matter once we leave anyway?

Or friends, even. Do you only call people from your world your best friends, or have you made new best friends here?

[She pauses, trying to think of how to wrap this up. Keep it casual, keep it light.] It's not really a big deal, I'm just kind of curious what everyone thinks.

[Filtered to Riku]

...can I talk to you about something? Just when you have some time.

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Well, Ace and I have the same father. Luffy is more like... [His little brother's little brother? The person carrying on Ace's will? Someone Marco rescued more often than Ace, because he knew that's what Ace would want most? It gets confusing.] brother by proxy? When he meets up with my crew in the New World we might all adopt him, but it's complicated for now. However he wants to view it is fine by me.

Aye. Maybe they'll come back though, eh?

[Ah, okay. Kairi just assumes it's all kind of a mess of different timelines and people and such. It's not like her world makes much more sense.] Complicated seems to be normal around here. Wait, so what crew are you a part of?

Maybe. Some I'm hoping will, others...maybe not so much. [She could do without seeing Xigbar or Vanitas ever again, really.]

Whitebeard Pirates. First division commander and temporarily acting captain at your service. Ace is second division commander. There's 1600 of us back home, 16 divisions of 100 each.

I know the feeling.

Well, I can't say I knew that part. All I knew of was Luffy's crew...are there more crews around here that I don't know about?

Every world's got 'em, don't they? You've never seen the really bad guys from your world turn up here, have you?

Dr. Trafalgar Law is captain of a Rookie crew called the Heart Pirates. Jack Sparrow was temporarily working in Blackbeard's Crew, though I understand he considers himself his own captain. He's not from my world though so I don't know him as well as the others. Red-Haired Shanks was here for a bit and he's a pirate emperor like my Pops was, but he went home the same time as Blackbeard.

There's... literally no one worse in my world than Blackbeard. He used to be our nakama until he killed our brother and eventually my father. He's everything even the lowest scum of pirates try not to be. The only reason I can assume he didn't wreak more havoc in Luceti is that he probably didn't have my Pops' devil fruit and everyone from my world would have teamed up to kill him a thousand times over if he tried anything too big.

Sounds all kinds of complicated. [She doesn't like the idea of people killing people. She's gotten the drift of what nakama means, and that just makes it worse.]

...devil fruit?

Pretty much, eh.

Devil fruit are what gives super powers in my world. Like Luffy is rubber, and Ace is fire.

And what are you?

Not everyone has one, eh?

Although, admittedly I do. It's no fun to just tell though. You'd have to guess.

Well that's not fair. I don't even get a hint?

It's related to the color blue.

Something to do with water then? [If Ace was fire...it would make sense, right?]

Nope. More like the direct opposite of that, eh?

...another form of fire.

Indeed. You're certainly getting warmer, eh? [Shameless pun get.]

That was kind of terrible phrasing, you know. [But it still causes her to grin.] Okay, so something warm and like fire...[She may or may not figure it out.] Well wait, how many forms of fire can there be?

Aye, that's what makes it fun.

Ah, to my knowledge, just mine and Ace's actually. Though ours do very different things aside from being opposite colors.

How about giving me a hint about Ace's? That way you're not outright telling me about yours, but you're still helping a girl out.

Ace's are regular fire and they burn like that. He can turn into red and orange flames and generate huge quantities of fire pretty much endlessly or until he gets tired.

Mine are similar, but still very different.

In my world there are three types of devil fruits. Logia, Paramecia, and zoan. Logia are like Ace or the admirals and can turn into an element. Fire, sand, magma, light, things like that. Paramecia are like Luffy or my father and sort of encompass a lot of different abilities. Earthquakes, rubber, whatever. Zoans have an additional animal species they turn into. I'm not a logia, but Ace is.

[And since fire's not exactly something with a lot of abilities...] You're a Zoan. You turn into a fire animal.

Aye, correct, hole in one.

Okay, last hint. My flames can't hurt anyone.

What kind of animal can be on fire and not hurt anyone...[Ponder, ponder...] Some last hint. [She'll get it though, just give her time!]

If it was too easy, it wouldn't be any fun.

I can't really think of any animals like that from my world. Not real ones.

I might be cheating a little. [He's a pirate, he cheats often.]

Since there's something of a sub-category with zoans.

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