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[ Letting Tifa lead the way to the water's edge, Nami looks ahead at the calm strip of beach laid out before them, the false sky already beginning to deepen with the oncoming evening hours. It's been over a year since she's seen the sky, but her suite helps take the edge off, even if she could never really let herself forget how it's all fake. ]

Works for me. You'll get to know the place eventually. [ Which is a presumptuous thing to say, enough so that Nami feels her face warm as she casts a quick glance in Tifa's direction before trying to brush the comment off with a dismissive shake of her head. ] If you decide you want to hang out up here, I mean.

[ She's glad for the conversation to shift back to familiar territory, even though the topic of her island is one she's more selective about, when it comes to sharing the details. ]

I grew up in a tangerine orchard, outside a tiny farming town. You could see the ocean from almost anywhere you stood. [ Nami tilts her head towards a cozy-looking rattan daybedsituated a few paces away from the water's edge, and shoots Tifa a questioning look before heading over to sit on the edge of the cushion. It's spacious enough that they don't have to get too close, but deep down, Nami kind of hopes Tifa doesn't keep her distance, even as their conversation lingers in safe, casual territory. ]

So what about you? If you haven't lived in your tough city your whole life, where did you grow up?

[saults]

[ you'll get to know the place eventually. the words bring another effortless smile to her lips, shy in the way she ducks her head in an attempt to almost disguise the way a simple sentence can somehow excite her. ]

Well, if you keep inviting me, then I doubt I'd be able to say no.

[ she hopes it's a simple enough answer that doesn't speak too much to her own eager enthusiasm, like she almost feels like an excited young girl again, the way she'd made friends with jessie when she'd first moved to midgar and found herself frequently anxious to spend with the other girl. having a friend seems like the obvious reasoning, but — well, considering what happened with nami the last time they met, she knows there's a bit more to it than that. thinking back on it now, without even realizing it then, maybe there'd been more to it with jessie too.

when nami points out the daybed, tifa gives her an approving nod, following her to it as she situates herself beside her on the cushion. while she doesn't necessarily invade her space, she's still just a few inches apart, relaxing her posture as she takes another sip from her drink. ]

A tangerine orchard sounds pretty beautiful to be surrounded by. I guess before the city, I was pretty much the opposite — a whole country girl. [ she laughs softly, thinking back on how vastly different her life had changed paces between nibelheim and midgar. ] It was a pretty small village by the mountain, that pretty much only existed as a stopping point for mountain climbers, at least up until they built the, um, the reactor. [ her voice catches for a moment on those last words, but tifa maintains her smile, quickly breezing past it. ] Actually, it was so small, I was the only girl my age there, so I grew up around a bunch of boys. So they got stuck with me constantly trying to play dress up in nice clothes and set up tea parties. Poor guys, huh?