[ She can more than appreciate the sincere bravado with which Astra bats back her previous attempt to brush off the question, and Nami finds herself laughing as she gives the other woman a slow shake of her head. ]
Keep it up, I won't even need a kiss.
[ One corner of her mouth curves into a lopsided grin before she's back to picking at the massive wedding dress in her arms, strolling towards a shallow cave situated on the edge of a pool of water. ]
If you know how to use a rod, I can make you one. Since we're going to have to do everything for ourselves until we get out of here. Find food, build shelter– [ A beat. Her tone painfully deadpan when she adds: ] Somehow avoid falling in love.
[She likes when people like her, even if she's just teasing this way. A diva through and through, even if she understands that she doesn't have her reputation here to help her this time. It's both frustrating and refreshing, discouraging but exciting. It's a feeling she enjoys.]
I can use it well enough, but I'm not a master fisherman! Wouldn't falling in love be faster?
If you got a plan, I'm all ears. Or are ya makin' me your lackey now?
[Since she's a Queen, or so she says, that means that he might be able to leave as long as she vouches for him, right? He's not sure what that entails exactly, so he's cautious, but so far she seems more haunted than interested in him. It's a weird feeling, and he's not sure what to make of it.]
Exactly what I'm doing. [ Nami walks close enough for the quiet way she speaks to be heard, and no closer. ] And if anybody tries to stop us, we just tell them you playing lackey turns me on, and they'll let us walk right out.
[ She'll get him out of ball boy duty, and they can go their separate ways from there. If pressed, she'll claim it's merely acting like the kind of honorable pirate her crew is made up of, keeping whatever vows she's made to be good to him, even if she's the only person here who actually made those vows. If their positions were reversed, she believes he would have done the same. ]
Are you gonna go find the Pachinko machines after this? [ More things she forgets she shouldn't know. ]
[ it's a random afternoon that nami will receive an image, just a simple one of tifa as she stands in front of a mirror, her gym clothes and her slightly sweat-damp skin suggesting she's just finished a work out. she flexes one arm, thin but strong as evident in the visible muscle of her bicep, a smile on her face knowing the picture is being especially sent in nami's direction. ]
[ "What a cute girl"—is the first, and admittedly only thought Nami has in the half a minute after opening the message Tifa sent her. She's gorgeous, every curve and muscle absolutely perfect, and the sheen of sweat clinging to Tifa's skin draws her eye like a magnet, leading her along the strong planes of Tifa's exposed stomach, but it's that smile that pulls Nami's focus and refuses to let go for long.
Grinning, Nami settles back against the plush chair she's been curled up and drawing in, sticking her pencil behind her ear so she can finally respond. ]
Guess that's my cardio for the day taken care of.
[ The little flip her heart's been doing since she opened that message surely counts for something. ]
Or is this just to make sure I'm going to rush straight into your arms when I see you next?
[ And that'll be the only straight thing about that meeting. ]
hey nami, this is layla, do you remember we spoke over text a while ago?
I just wanted to reach out and let you know your suggestion worked! ✨ I told the staff I would die from the lack of sex if I didn’t have a piano and a guitar in my room. you know, because I can only have sex to music or some dumb excuse like that—
( there’s a bit more yapping on her end before she finally got to the point. )
anyways 🧡🩷 I wanted to say thank you for the advice it really worked! they actually listened to me!
[ She likes the rambling, and she appreciates encouraging another of the resort's many captives to game the system for all it's worth. ]
Nice one. It's cool you know how to play so many different instruments.
If you end up with a creepy entourage because of your rank, that trick works on them too. Nothing gets me turned on like someone else doing errands for me 😉.
Happy it worked, I hope this place isn't getting under your skin too much
No?! Aren't you two always together or something? You don't think he...I mean no, he better not have, or I'll kick his ass. [ Turned into a statue, that is. ]
Kind of. We're both like my mom in different ways, we're tough like her, but Nojiko's content to stay on the island and take care of the orchard, I had to get up and do something
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