frost_jewel | 21 [action, Malnosso Land]

[On day one, Mia fights just as hard as any other resident of house sixteen, sure in her heart that they are all being taken for some kind of punishment, for retribution. She doesn't know where that idea comes from, but it lives a life of luxury in the dark corners of her mind. Injured and disoriented upon arrival to the moon, she helps Katara for a while before doing what she can to find and assist her housemates, and her friends. This is the moon. There was a draft here, one she remembers very well and would prefer not to mentally revisit if she can help it. Other people surely feel the same, and maybe she can help them instead.

On day two her only venture out of her villa in the daylight hours is to the pool. The absence of her power is absolutely flooring and awful. That night, though, a friend or two lures her to the casino and its allure of all manner of games of chance. Not a hearty gambler, but familiar with the idea, she'll win a respectable pile of tokens by the end of the evening, and offer to give some to almost anyone who looks like they need them.

Days three and four see her exploring the parks; though her stops in Bubble Land and Junior Land are brief, it gets her out of the villa and away from any tension building around Loki's presence combined with the visible presence of his and Rogue's relationship; on the afternoon of the third day she seeks out Billy and Teddy specifically, to bring them something. And check up on them. Leaving Luceti didn't mean leaving their problems behind. The fourth day takes her to Thrill Land first, for a very significant amount of time. Though she departs that morning by herself, anyone else visiting that park should be able to spot her blue hair waiting in a line somewhere. A timid line, for a thrill ride park. Get her to something bigger and better.

After an encounter with Halloween Land's zombies, though, she keeps closer to "home" for the remainder of their moon vacation - home, and back to the casino. There are all these rumors, and she's off to investigate first; later, on one of the latter two days, she enters the back room to test her luck with something valuable.]

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Ah, okay. [That makes more sense. Natural talent, but not a prodigy. Nami sips the glass she's carrying with her.]

We didn't really get a chance to talk properly the other day. But uh...thanks for coming out. [And mindful of the wig, she adds:] I'm Nami. The girl you spoke to at the cottage.

[Briefly. In a handwaved kind of way, probably.]

Oh! Of course, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you right away. It was no trouble at all. [She'd do it just as easily for a stranger.]

Haha, I'm not surprised. [She tugs at the wig, and then wrinkles her nose and readjusts it as her tug sends it a little awry.] I suppose I'm in disguise right now. But that was pretty impressive work, though. The healing. How do you do that?

How do I...do it? I was born with it. Some would probably say I don't know how to not do it.

Born with it, huh..? [That's a shame. It might have been nice to learn. Healing herself would get hre out of so many tight spots back home.] That's one hell of a blessing.

Oh, thank you. I think so, too. But if you're interested, you can learn the healing magic native to this world.

Oh, really? How hard is it?

I didn't think it was very hard. Nala is very open to talking to people.

[...oh, that now rings a bell.]

One of the filials, right? How do I find her?

Going to any quiet place outdoors for a while should do it. It worked for me. If I remember correctly, she likes the forest.

Hm, I'll definitely try that. Thanks!

I don't even know if talking to them works on the moon, so you probably couldn't try right now.

No, I wasn't intending to. [The moon stuff she just brushes on past. Nami's mind tries to break when she thinks about it, so she won't.] I'll enjoy the vacation and then I'll try when we go back. Assuming we do.

There is a growing part of me wondering if we'll return from this "vacation" to some sort of nasty surprise.

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She hadn't even thought of that. AND NOW SHE CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT IT. Thanks, Mia.]

...what...kind of a nasty surprise?

I don't know. It's just...this has never happened before, that I know of, all of us leaving Luceti at once and ending up in the same place. The village must be completely empty.

Maybe they're just...doing renovations? Ahaha.

Renovations?

[She knows the term from her housemates.

Something catches her internal attention when those two ideas finally meet.]

Renovations...

[...

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Yes. Renovations?

[That was odd.]

Oh! Sorry, I was just...thinking of something. What do you suppose they would do?

I don't know. There's nothing that really needs to be done. [She smiles.] Maybe they're just remodelling because they got bored with how the town looks, and we'll all come back to bungalows and paddy fields.

If that happened, I think a lot of people would be angry. What if they...erased your orchard?

[THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE

Insert faint choking noise here.]

Yes, I thought you might feel that way.

Okay so forget I said anything and that's not going to happen. No changes. Nothing. They just wanted to give us a holiday, right?

[aka: you thought correct.]

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