16. [voiced]

[frost_jewel]

[It’s been a long few days since the Kin’corrans went “home”; Mia doesn’t remember most of them. Since the 31st she’s been, for the most part, sound asleep in the battledome clinic, trying to recover from…well, everything. Dealing with the fire didn’t help, leaving her spent and dehydrated and coughing. The time she’s spent awake, though, convinced her that things in the village were getting back to normal.

So her first mission of the day, after waking and sorting herself out, is to find something to do that will alleviate this boredom and, just perhaps, help make her case for just going home to lie about there instead.]

I know it has been very difficult and busy in the village just recently. Given the date, it will only stay busy. If it is at all possible, though, I would ask a small favor: would anyone be willing to bring a few books from the library to the battle dome clinic? I promise to return them at the first opportunity. …Once I’m done with them, that is.

While I am thinking about it…well, I would not mind a little company either. I want to hear that everyone is all right.

[Missing out on more than a day always leaves her too disoriented for her liking.]

[[ooc: We interrupt the delicious intro train to bring you If you work in the clinic and would like to have that argument about going home, step right up! She's a patient woman.]]

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[deathsdoctor]

I was trying to reach the end of the Grand Line. Raftel. It's an island that only one crew has actually managed to reach before.

That of the Pirate King.

[frost_jewel]

A pirate king?

[Briggs comes to mind. What she knows of him, at any rate. Then a slow smile forms on her face.]

Were you looking for treasure?

[deathsdoctor]

[Law laughs.] Yes, we were. It's just that the treasure may not be silver and gold. And is probably not, by all reckoning. See, no one knows what the One Piece is. Just that it was important to Gol D. Roger and that it's important to the world.

So everyone's looking for it.

[frost_jewel]

So...you are looking for only a single piece of treasure, that used to be important to a pirate, but even he can't remember where he buried it. Or what it is.

[deathsdoctor]

Oh, Gol D. Roger didn't forget. [The tone a shade darker.] He died before he could say. Or, more accurately, was executed. The World Government has been trying to stop everyone ever since from looking.

They're terrified of it being found.

[frost_jewel]

[You know, part of her wonders if Law isn't telling a dramatic story for entertainment purposes.]

Do they know what it is? If it is that important to your world, one would think they would want to find it first.

[deathsdoctor]

[Law hmmms.] The ones who rule the world, the Gorosei, know. They've been around pretty much forever.

And I'm sure they've tried. Though it's easier for them to block everyone else and have One Piece stay lost. Safer for them too. They don't want to take a chance that the thing could knock them out of power.

[frost_jewel]

I can't imagine one group of people ruling an entire world. Or even trying to; the disagreement would be too much.

But they don't know what it is, do they? What if it's something peaceful.

[deathsdoctor]

... that's if they allow disagreement. They don't.

Even if it is a peaceful thing,if it could in any way threaten their rule, they wouldn't want it around. As for knowing exactly what it is, it's safer to assume they do. They know things about the world pretty much no one else does. Knowledge is power and the Gorosei are at the pinnacle of it.

[frost_jewel]

Forgive me, Dr. Law, but it sounds awful.

[deathsdoctor]

I know it does. My world is a brutal place to live.

[frost_jewel]

[In some places, so is Weyard. But if you asked her? She would call it a beautiful place to live, not a brutal one. Mia closes her eyes and lowers her head.]

Maybe it will change.

[deathsdoctor]

Maybe. I hope it does.

[frost_jewel]

I hope so, too. For the sake of everyone in your world.