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[voice] now you're just some zombie that I used to know

The dead seem to be rather lively as of late, but I wonder how the living are faring? I certainly hope you haven't run into someone you used to know. It'd be unfortunate to finally be reunited with someone you lost long ago, only to have to brutally murder them with your own hands.

Is anyone planning on attending the Great Race this year? It's quite a spectacle. If last year is any indication, you'll even get a chance to pay Davy Jones your respects in person, maybe prepare a thank you gift for his generosity in allowing us so many visitors as of late.

[Robin giggles at this, the horrors of the night seeming far away in full daylight.]

Let's make up a wishlist, perhaps if we all work together we can manage to send a message. If you could give any gift to our undead benefactor, what would it be? I think a knife through his blackened, beating heart would adequately show my gratitude. What do you think?

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Damn, Lady Robin, that's quite a mouth you got there. I kinda like your style.

[ahem]

As for the race...not us. At least, I don't really see the point but I'll ask my crew. We didn't do so hot last year, and things are a lot crazier now.

Sure...

So long as after you're done with your knife he is treated to an eternity of suffering and humiliation...

I don't recall swearing...

[Her tone had been curiously bemused, but returns to its normal caliber quickly.]

Maybe it'd be fun to swing by and watch the start of it, anyway.

What do you think happens to the slave master when his whip is taken from him and he's left alone amidst those he's trodden on for so many years?

Maybe so. But all Jones did last year was, what, appear? I remember the ghost ship passin' us near the finish line, though.

The festival, now, that was a good time. I suppose I wouldn't mind another party, even if we just had one. It'll get the stink of zombie out of the sails.

I think I love you even more than I did yesterday.

Maybe he's building up to something. He's emptying his locker each night after all, and he was briefly freed. If he's going to do something big, the Great Race would be the best time to make it known, don't you think?

Is that so? Or is it perhaps that the love you felt yesterday has simply been rekindled? Emotions are such flighty things. How would one make a scientific measure?

[A giggle. She might be teasing, judging by the tone of her voice. But she might also be deadly serious underneath the flippancy.]

What gift would you give?

Huh. Hadn't thought of that.

Which begs the question, is it a good idea or a bad idea to be in the front row of that audience?

[If only he could see her grin.]

That depends on whether you're the type that thrives in difficult situations or not. It certainly wouldn't deter my captain.

Now now, my love for you cannot possibly be rekindled, because it never dulls down to a point of cooled embers, yoi.

And I would give him revenge. On all the worlds he wants, but right back at him, eh? [Marco, of course, sounds as flighty and deadpan as he ALWAYS does for all things, not really changing much in tone between expressing love or revenge. They're much the same to him after all.]

Heh! Yeah, but your captain's in a class by himself.

True, I been a lot more cautious lately, as captain of my own, but thriving in difficult situations is what I do. Gan Xingba shrinks from no challenge.

I thought not. What's been your most challenging experience thus far?

A pity I only manage to stoke it when we're far apart.

That's an interesting gift. Altruistic, almost. Does your hatred for Jones run deeper than his hatred for all the worlds in all the universes across all existence? If not, I'd dare say he's getting the better end of the bargain.

[hmm that bears some thinking]

Things ain't been easy in this world, that's for sure. These zombies're no picnic. That island with the shrines, man...something appeared and took the form of Orochi, and it was up to me an' Gaius to handle him alone, that was pretty tough. Even the guy who almost knocked me off the cloud island with his magic during the race wasn't easy.

Come to think of it, all those things really do sorta rival fightin' the Serpent King in his demon realm, don't they?

Not so.

It takes most of what very little self control I have around you in person to keep from shouting it to the world.

[......................................]

[Doesn't he do that a lot anyway?]

And should you ever want something more, just whistle.

Well, seeing as he gave me an opportunity to meet you while Ace was my captain, an opportunity to even have Ace as my captain -- headaches and all, and certain other brothers by my side, it's a different sort of agenda I have in mind to begin with.

But have you seen all the dead he's toying with? [HE ASKS LIKE SHE IS NOT CURRENTLY SURROUNDED.] I think if anyone's going to be out for revenge, it's much more them on him than anything I can individually do, aye?

[WELL IT'S DAYTIME SO SHE'S NOT??? But his point is well taken.]

Indeed. So you'd turn him against the worlds, then set the worlds right back against him. Seems almost like reality.

Do you think your crew could spare you a few days?

I wouldn't know. The closest I've come is fighting a Crocodile in a Royal Tomb. I'm sorry to report that at the time, it didn't end so well for me.

[Just happy tail mode. THEY FUCKING BETTER BE ABLE TO SPARE HIM--]

[But no all right.]

[Let him think for real.]

I'll have to see if Namur can hold the main front while I tie up a few loose ends. The Bloody Roses are thinking of a more permanent venture, part of how things are speeding up around here, and while I can usually trust Thatch and Selphie to take care of such things, they don't get along with Grell as --

I... ah.

[Beak shut. Face bright red. Check.]

[Did he just...]

[Yeah.]

[Smooth.]

[So the reason Thatch and Selphie don't even trust Grell as much as Marco is because Marco blatantly openly toys with her, considering Robin too strong to care much but--]

[Then Grell herself was upset for Marco's lack of consideration on Robin's part. It's like Robin and Marco are a pair of yo-yos. They're too close for comfort, too far apart, all strung up. Even when things are "good" they aren't. Even when things are bad, they aren't. He misses Ikki.]

[This is the part he misses now that he's captain. He complained all the damn time when Ace was captain, but truth is, he loved it. And trusted him. And could take off like his idiot captain as needed, even if it meant punching Ace first and trying to get through to him that it was important.]

Well, at worst, Namur will keep the peace and they can all agree I'm idiot. When do you want me?

Crocodiles in tombs? Either your emperor's got bad taste in guardians or that weren't supposed to happen.

Always.

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